Except for the ‘fat acceptance activists’ that died suddenly in their sleep…
If the Korean subway authority really valued their customers, they’d have swapped those outlines.
Plus, why is there a post in front of the escalator? To keep out anybody too big to fit through the gap?
The aliens have cell phones. It’s too late for them.
CM sighting!!
Feeding commies to a tiger is animal cruelty.
Republicans did nominate a woman for vice president. The Democrats went batshit crazy, destroyed her reputation and forced her to drop out.
Palestinians also export violence, misogyny and terrorism.
I was thinking the commies would be lean and tough from starvation, but some of the ones I see make me look thin (for reference I’m ~250# and almost 5’7″ :-) ). Poor tiger would have indigestion and hardening of the arteries almost instantly. That would probably be tiger abuse… Although the thought of Antifa types shouting “Now we see the violence inherent in the system” as they are consumed does kind of warm the cockles of my heart. Probably better to feed them already deceased ones lest they hurt the tiger, tigers are an endangered species.
I definitely want my bomb disposal folks to have had a cup of coffee before work.
Stay home, do nothing, go to be early? Works for me.
Catnip scented dryer sheets?
I’m trying to lose weight. Delete burger levels 1 and 2.
And here I thought Vikings did that so they just reach out and grab a handful of pot.
Good old Mark Leonard. A real ladies man.
Repeal 1913? I’d vote for that!
I wonder how high the on-the-job fatality rate is going to be for NYC social workers?
The only problem is Alex Jones would never be able to pass Pete Hegseth’s physical fitness requirements.
I was going to ask why Canada keeps electing idiots. Then I remembered that we elected Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
And then they let the Gypsy’s go.
She’s right. I grew up in New York State.
I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day.
By the way, that was 42.45 billion of YOUR MONEY that the Biden Administration stole from you and disappeared into their pockets. And what did you get out of it? NOTHING.
Karoline Leavitt for President 2036?
Unfortunately, the M1928 Thompson isn’t exactly affordable for most people today.
I too am losing weight. Heart doctor said no bread, rice, pasta, pizza (dough), spaghetti, flour based crackers, chips, etc. “Might as well have sweet pastry.” (Me? “Fine I’ll limit breads to when I want sweet pastry.”) Not “no carbs”, technically potatoes and potato based products (fries) are “okay” on a limited basis.
Also suppose to limit to fish and chicken. Yea, the latter two are not happening. Best I can do on fish is the occasional salmon, shrimp, and when hubby goes fishing, trout. Otherwise forget it. Have branched out to the “other white meat” (commercial pork). We do eat chicken (“chicken again!”), but we still eat a lot of grilled steak and lean hamburger. Also “limit potatoes?” Um, no.
Still I am losing. Slowly. But dropping. Will see what happens on first followup visit. If I need to lose faster, how about some help?
So, I like that Millais painting of Joan of Arc so much that I bought an inexpensive framed repro, and it hangs in the ‘Joan of Arc’ corner of my bedroom. (Swords, gauntlets, pole arm, helmet there too.)
But the armor is wrong for French in 1428.
Millais painted in 1865. The armor he chose is beautiful, but German verging on Gothic, probably 1480-1500. French, and English/Burgundian, would have been predominantly Milanese (“Italian”) at that time. Basically smooth surface (no fluting) and a bit less form-fitting. She would have see a lot of the ‘pig-faced’ or houndskull bascinets (helmets) though she seems to have mostly discarded the visor for herself. (Rather like movie portrayals of armor, it’s important to let the audience see your expensive actors, so too it was important that Joan be seen as who she was.)
Joan’s armor was not ‘top of the line’; the Dauphin gave 100 livres for her harness, and it likely was not entirely made-to-measure. Sees to have been delivered pretty quickly – weeks rather than months.
And it had gaps; we know she was wounded twice, shoulder and leg.
Pedantry-are-us.
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Aside from that little discursion, yes, get ALL the Somalis.
Loving the Joan of Arc pedantry, though. I had a lot of fun last year doing the portraits for a production of Ruddigore—we had a Joan of Arc in there (really not sure why, but we had the alto who really wanted to be in there, so sure). TBH, the artistic style that most closely match her time period was a little cartoony, so I was the least happy with that portrait.
I tried to make them most like a famous artist of the time period where their costumes were set, except for the last. He got Vincent Van Gogh, because one of the descriptions was “rather crude in colour, but just you wait, in a century I will be an Old Master and you will be sorry you spoke lightly of me.” I’d waited a literal decade to use that joke.
But oh! Last spring is when that rather bizarre official portrait of King Charles was unveiled, the one that looks like it’s been drenched in blood. Perfect, right? Well… that role was double-cast! So I had one Van Gogh and one modern court portrait artist.
The Most Interesting Man in the World (the original one, Jonathan Goldsmith) was a nameless security redshirt in “The Corbomite Maneuver”, and survived the episode.
No beaming down to a planet in The Corbomite Maneuver so likelihood of death is much lower. It was security who often end up the token body. Mind you the chances of death on the ship are not 0 if you’re wearing a red engineering and services uniform but still much lower than as security detail.
I wonder if anyone has graphed the number of deaths vs service group (Command, Science, Engineering&services) in TOS. I can think of only two command deaths (Gary Mitchell in Where No Man Has Gone Before and Lt Stiles in Balance of Terror) and one Sciences (Dr. Dehner also in Where No Man Has Gone Before ). These are in early first season episodes so the pattern of offing redshirts was not yet established.
There was also the Intrepid crewed solely by Vulcans early in the episode The Immunity Syndrome (in which Mr. Spock has a reaction presaging Obi Wan Kenobi when 400 some odd Vulcans are destroyed). That may have been kind of like Bob’s idea for a mostly science vessel. I can’t see that anyone really would want to provide life insurance for Starfleet personnel no matter their specialization.
Considering how much later Star Trek might seem to run on seldom reproduced mad science, one can hypothesize an alternate ‘new series’, about a science officer heavy vessel that travels between space stations with contained laboratories, with the expectation of picking up some scientists and offloading others.
With the changing conditions of work and supervision, some of them would be at loose ends and undersupervised, and gank themselves with the mad science.
Less Klingons, Romulan, and monster of the week. More ‘what hath science wrought’, and with two or three ‘the lab failed and everyone is dead’ space station visits per season. Which might be two episodes or more.
With no diplomacy, and no hostile spaceships, the ship’s command crew are maybe truck drivers. Security, administration, the saner supervisory science officers, the ship’s librarian, and maybe some specialized engineering crew might be much more central, and with a wider variety of supporting cast deaths. (Though, a pathologist might be nice, also.)
Of course, my little black dress is jamming stuff into some version of the Star Gate universe, so I immediately think about that. (Would work for a polity that had mixed populations, and basically science officers are disparately high in expression of atavistic ancient genes.)
Technically that was the all Vulcan ship crews were just scientific explorers. Ex: Intrepid. Although why the all Vulcan crews had problems when they’d been flying all Vulcan crews longer than there had been humans in space let alone a Star Fleet, comes under … Wait? What?
I have read the Diane Duane’s Rihannsu books. Duane had a better handle on the Vulcans and Romulans than the screen writers guild did. OTOH the books also pointed out that single species crews were not an optimal idea.
Somebody did a count. While redshirts die most in terms of numbers, as a percentage of the total number of them in away teams, they’re actually the least likely to die (after subtracting out main characters with their plot armor). Gold shirts are the most likely to die.
Which is why Riker, not Picard, TNG, got the away missions. Something about the captain didn’t get to leave the ship in critical situations. Changed with Janeway, Voyager, somewhat, but only because she was in the Delta Quadrant and out from under some of the star fleet command rules. Strange New Worlds is pre-Kirk so back to captains getting in on the fun. Same with Discovery, both pre-Kirk and centuries past Kirk.
Actually the plot armor is pretty tough in Star Trek of all venues (at least through Enterprise, and to include Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds). I can only think of 2 “main” characters that were ultimately offed, those being Tasha Yar (as Denise crosby had what she thought was a better offer and wanted out) from TNG and Marie Betel, Captain Pike’s love interest (had to go to make room for Veena some day :-) ). Oh and the original Chief Engineer Hemmer. I deeply suspect that actor got tired of 14 hour + days to get his makeup on and off for 5 hours of acting. Strange New worlds seems to hold the record for killing off main characters and one was a red shirt !!! Can’t speak to Discovery or Picard. I dipped into each and ran screaming. Particularly Discovery that just totally mangles continuity (where Strange New worlds just bends it REAL hard, i.e. Spock meeting Khan should note that he knows Khan’s grand daughter…).
Hell Scotty is so fricking tough he’s been killed once (The Changeling ) and held in a pattern buffer for 80+ years while helping explore a Dyson Sphere on the way to his retirement world (Relics). He is also thrown against the wall several times (Including Lights of Zetar) . Very tough indeed.
IIRC, that’s an old 2000’s picture from a Pennsylvania parish that has a Blessing of the Deer Hunters. I forget if it’s St. Eustace or St. Hubert Day, or if it’s another hunting saint, or if it’s just at the beginning of deer season.
Pretty sure that the hunting dogs also get blessed, but they get blessed outdoors.
Anyway, there are lots of traditional blessings of both hunting weapons and war weapons, as well as for all associated equipment.
According To Hoyt 
What have you done, indeed….
Yep, hurricane purchase, sure. Nods
Actually, turning the volume down to see better scans – visual and audial processing are related!
Sarek. You alien hound, you.
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Yes, I do turn down the audio when I’m doing something finicky.
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SFBS!
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To the “Four Horsemen of Getting Screwed in D&D,” I would add the following remark, said by our GM, seemingly apropos of nothing:
“Um, James, how much damage can you take?”
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“You know, I’m just making conversation here, but if you had to eat a human body, where would you start?”
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(DM quietly rolls dice behind screen.)
( look amazed)
( roll a few more)
( sly grin)
” Oh nothing. ( asks innocuous question)”
( very feral grin)
” No worries. So who is doing what nect?”
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Wow, a real bumper crop today! 🤣
Except for the ‘fat acceptance activists’ that died suddenly in their sleep…
If the Korean subway authority really valued their customers, they’d have swapped those outlines.
Plus, why is there a post in front of the escalator? To keep out anybody too big to fit through the gap?
The aliens have cell phones. It’s too late for them.
CM sighting!!
Feeding commies to a tiger is animal cruelty.
Republicans did nominate a woman for vice president. The Democrats went batshit crazy, destroyed her reputation and forced her to drop out.
Palestinians also export violence, misogyny and terrorism.
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Of course the last thing that poor Christmas ornament sees is an orange cat.
Is that an orbital kinetic strike, or an orbital death laser? 😁
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It’s a Jewish space laser. They found Marjorie Taylor Greene on a camping vacation.
Maybe it’s just me, but while Jewish space lasers don’t thrill me, Israeli space lasers would totally rock.
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The poor tiger would be licking his butt for days trying to get the taste out of his mouthy.
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I was thinking the commies would be lean and tough from starvation, but some of the ones I see make me look thin (for reference I’m ~250# and almost 5’7″ :-) ). Poor tiger would have indigestion and hardening of the arteries almost instantly. That would probably be tiger abuse… Although the thought of Antifa types shouting “Now we see the violence inherent in the system” as they are consumed does kind of warm the cockles of my heart. Probably better to feed them already deceased ones lest they hurt the tiger, tigers are an endangered species.
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“Fat cat” did not become a term for the rich and powerful by accident, or for the sake of the rhyme.
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Helped by the same GOPe that hated the Tea Party and Trump.
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And, for the record: Yes, that is too much lettuce.
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As a salad, I don’t think it is too bad.
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As a salad, I don’t think it is too bad.
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As a salad, I don’t think it is too bad.
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I definitely want my bomb disposal folks to have had a cup of coffee before work.
Stay home, do nothing, go to be early? Works for me.
Catnip scented dryer sheets?
I’m trying to lose weight. Delete burger levels 1 and 2.
And here I thought Vikings did that so they just reach out and grab a handful of pot.
Good old Mark Leonard. A real ladies man.
Repeal 1913? I’d vote for that!
I wonder how high the on-the-job fatality rate is going to be for NYC social workers?
The only problem is Alex Jones would never be able to pass Pete Hegseth’s physical fitness requirements.
I was going to ask why Canada keeps electing idiots. Then I remembered that we elected Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
And then they let the Gypsy’s go.
She’s right. I grew up in New York State.
I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day.
By the way, that was 42.45 billion of YOUR MONEY that the Biden Administration stole from you and disappeared into their pockets. And what did you get out of it? NOTHING.
Karoline Leavitt for President 2036?
Unfortunately, the M1928 Thompson isn’t exactly affordable for most people today.
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Naw, meat is fine. Delete the bread.
I too am losing weight. Heart doctor said no bread, rice, pasta, pizza (dough), spaghetti, flour based crackers, chips, etc. “Might as well have sweet pastry.” (Me? “Fine I’ll limit breads to when I want sweet pastry.”) Not “no carbs”, technically potatoes and potato based products (fries) are “okay” on a limited basis.
Also suppose to limit to fish and chicken. Yea, the latter two are not happening. Best I can do on fish is the occasional salmon, shrimp, and when hubby goes fishing, trout. Otherwise forget it. Have branched out to the “other white meat” (commercial pork). We do eat chicken (“chicken again!”), but we still eat a lot of grilled steak and lean hamburger. Also “limit potatoes?” Um, no.
Still I am losing. Slowly. But dropping. Will see what happens on first followup visit. If I need to lose faster, how about some help?
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I have a T-shirt from North Carolina that says, “The Other Other White Meat.”
It shows a possum.
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And out here in Texas, we have “possum on the half shell”….
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Q: Why did the armadillo cross the road?
A: He didn’t make it, so we’ll never know. 😮
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More seriously, slow and steady is the way to go. Sounds like you have the right idea.
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I think I’d put scare quotes about “electing” Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Well, maybe Clinton got in legit. [You can stop laughing now…]
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So, I like that Millais painting of Joan of Arc so much that I bought an inexpensive framed repro, and it hangs in the ‘Joan of Arc’ corner of my bedroom. (Swords, gauntlets, pole arm, helmet there too.)
But the armor is wrong for French in 1428.
Millais painted in 1865. The armor he chose is beautiful, but German verging on Gothic, probably 1480-1500. French, and English/Burgundian, would have been predominantly Milanese (“Italian”) at that time. Basically smooth surface (no fluting) and a bit less form-fitting. She would have see a lot of the ‘pig-faced’ or houndskull bascinets (helmets) though she seems to have mostly discarded the visor for herself. (Rather like movie portrayals of armor, it’s important to let the audience see your expensive actors, so too it was important that Joan be seen as who she was.)
Hers would have been a little more in line with this one
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/23205/1896426/main-image
Joan’s armor was not ‘top of the line’; the Dauphin gave 100 livres for her harness, and it likely was not entirely made-to-measure. Sees to have been delivered pretty quickly – weeks rather than months.
And it had gaps; we know she was wounded twice, shoulder and leg.
Pedantry-are-us.
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Aside from that little discursion, yes, get ALL the Somalis.
Newsom as Butt-head? Indeed.
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Loving the Joan of Arc pedantry, though. I had a lot of fun last year doing the portraits for a production of Ruddigore—we had a Joan of Arc in there (really not sure why, but we had the alto who really wanted to be in there, so sure). TBH, the artistic style that most closely match her time period was a little cartoony, so I was the least happy with that portrait.
I tried to make them most like a famous artist of the time period where their costumes were set, except for the last. He got Vincent Van Gogh, because one of the descriptions was “rather crude in colour, but just you wait, in a century I will be an Old Master and you will be sorry you spoke lightly of me.” I’d waited a literal decade to use that joke.
But oh! Last spring is when that rather bizarre official portrait of King Charles was unveiled, the one that looks like it’s been drenched in blood. Perfect, right? Well… that role was double-cast! So I had one Van Gogh and one modern court portrait artist.
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Hmm. I wonder what word put me into moderation this time.
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Word Press Must Die!!!!!
I’m not getting posts again.
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And I forgot to click the Box.
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Regarding the Scotty meme, not true.
The Most Interesting Man in the World (the original one, Jonathan Goldsmith) was a nameless security redshirt in “The Corbomite Maneuver”, and survived the episode.
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I mean, you don’t get to be the Most Interesting Man In The World without accomplishing something of note. That qualifies.
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No beaming down to a planet in The Corbomite Maneuver so likelihood of death is much lower. It was security who often end up the token body. Mind you the chances of death on the ship are not 0 if you’re wearing a red engineering and services uniform but still much lower than as security detail.
I wonder if anyone has graphed the number of deaths vs service group (Command, Science, Engineering&services) in TOS. I can think of only two command deaths (Gary Mitchell in Where No Man Has Gone Before and Lt Stiles in Balance of Terror) and one Sciences (Dr. Dehner also in Where No Man Has Gone Before ). These are in early first season episodes so the pattern of offing redshirts was not yet established.
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Captain Decker in The Doomsday Machine, along with his crew. True, not Enterprise crew, but still a Goldshirt. Has to count.
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There was also the Intrepid crewed solely by Vulcans early in the episode The Immunity Syndrome (in which Mr. Spock has a reaction presaging Obi Wan Kenobi when 400 some odd Vulcans are destroyed). That may have been kind of like Bob’s idea for a mostly science vessel. I can’t see that anyone really would want to provide life insurance for Starfleet personnel no matter their specialization.
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Considering how much later Star Trek might seem to run on seldom reproduced mad science, one can hypothesize an alternate ‘new series’, about a science officer heavy vessel that travels between space stations with contained laboratories, with the expectation of picking up some scientists and offloading others.
With the changing conditions of work and supervision, some of them would be at loose ends and undersupervised, and gank themselves with the mad science.
Less Klingons, Romulan, and monster of the week. More ‘what hath science wrought’, and with two or three ‘the lab failed and everyone is dead’ space station visits per season. Which might be two episodes or more.
With no diplomacy, and no hostile spaceships, the ship’s command crew are maybe truck drivers. Security, administration, the saner supervisory science officers, the ship’s librarian, and maybe some specialized engineering crew might be much more central, and with a wider variety of supporting cast deaths. (Though, a pathologist might be nice, also.)
Of course, my little black dress is jamming stuff into some version of the Star Gate universe, so I immediately think about that. (Would work for a polity that had mixed populations, and basically science officers are disparately high in expression of atavistic ancient genes.)
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Technically that was the all Vulcan ship crews were just scientific explorers. Ex: Intrepid. Although why the all Vulcan crews had problems when they’d been flying all Vulcan crews longer than there had been humans in space let alone a Star Fleet, comes under … Wait? What?
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If you read Diane Duane’s Rihannsu books, apparently the replacement Intrepid was closer to a regular Starfleet ship than the original was.
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I have read the Diane Duane’s Rihannsu books. Duane had a better handle on the Vulcans and Romulans than the screen writers guild did. OTOH the books also pointed out that single species crews were not an optimal idea.
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Somebody did a count. While redshirts die most in terms of numbers, as a percentage of the total number of them in away teams, they’re actually the least likely to die (after subtracting out main characters with their plot armor). Gold shirts are the most likely to die.
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Which is why Riker, not Picard, TNG, got the away missions. Something about the captain didn’t get to leave the ship in critical situations. Changed with Janeway, Voyager, somewhat, but only because she was in the Delta Quadrant and out from under some of the star fleet command rules. Strange New Worlds is pre-Kirk so back to captains getting in on the fun. Same with Discovery, both pre-Kirk and centuries past Kirk.
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Actually the plot armor is pretty tough in Star Trek of all venues (at least through Enterprise, and to include Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds). I can only think of 2 “main” characters that were ultimately offed, those being Tasha Yar (as Denise crosby had what she thought was a better offer and wanted out) from TNG and Marie Betel, Captain Pike’s love interest (had to go to make room for Veena some day :-) ). Oh and the original Chief Engineer Hemmer. I deeply suspect that actor got tired of 14 hour + days to get his makeup on and off for 5 hours of acting. Strange New worlds seems to hold the record for killing off main characters and one was a red shirt !!! Can’t speak to Discovery or Picard. I dipped into each and ran screaming. Particularly Discovery that just totally mangles continuity (where Strange New worlds just bends it REAL hard, i.e. Spock meeting Khan should note that he knows Khan’s grand daughter…).
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Hell Scotty is so fricking tough he’s been killed once (The Changeling ) and held in a pattern buffer for 80+ years while helping explore a Dyson Sphere on the way to his retirement world (Relics). He is also thrown against the wall several times (Including Lights of Zetar) . Very tough indeed.
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Not to mention landing at Juno Beach IRL.
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Looking at the priest and the firearms:
“Bless you, my gun.”
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IIRC, that’s an old 2000’s picture from a Pennsylvania parish that has a Blessing of the Deer Hunters. I forget if it’s St. Eustace or St. Hubert Day, or if it’s another hunting saint, or if it’s just at the beginning of deer season.
Pretty sure that the hunting dogs also get blessed, but they get blessed outdoors.
Anyway, there are lots of traditional blessings of both hunting weapons and war weapons, as well as for all associated equipment.
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That meme about the use of articles in different languages: Finnish doesn’t use any. Not a single one.
Of course we compensate for that by adding all kinds of stuff to the end of words and combining words so we can get longer words and so on and so on.
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LOL. Never studied Finnish.
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I must protest. I have seen many machines commit sepuku that were utterly incapable of committing poetry.
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Turkeys will eat mice, songbirds, crayfish, and anything else that they can gobble up. They are true omnivores.
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Seeing this, this morning, reminded me of the coffee memes here, so I had to come back and post.
Now let’s see if it carries;
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