79 thoughts on “Go On And Kiss The Memes”

  1. “Medieval Animals?”

    I’m a Dragon and we aren’t animals! [Very Big Dragon Grin]

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    1. Hmm you are neither Plant nor Mineral. Nor are you a Bacteria an Archea or an Eukarya. I think tha kind of leaves Animalia as the only kingdom/classification…

      I am, of course a pedant.

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      1. You’re missing the Classification of “Person”. Some animals are close to personhood (ie Dogs & Cats), but other animals aren’t even close to personhood.

        Of course, Ethical Dragons prefer to not eat their fellow Persons.

        Now I’m wondering if pedants are Persons. [Very Big Dragon Grin]

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        1. On this planet, ‘Person’ is a subset of ‘Animal’. There may be plant persons or mineral persons or machine persons or energy beings in other parts of the universe, but we’ve never found any here.

          When species develop new characteristics, they do not cease to be what they evolved from. We are still monkeys, for example. Just very specialized monkeys. 🐵

          So a dragon is a very specialized lizard.

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          1. Actually, Humans are closer to apes than they are to monkeys. (Although some liberals remind me of monkeys.)

            As for Dragons, we aren’t related to any sort of reptiles. Like dinosaurs, we are closer to birds than reptiles. Of course, we’re smarter than dinosaurs, birds (and perhaps those hairless apes).

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                  1. Ah, old reading problem!

                    Galen of Pergamum used ‘monkey’ for all of them, but Simiiformes and Hominoidea are completely different groups, and Linnaeus put some monkeys in with apes under simia, but part of the issue is that apes weren’t really known (scientifically) in the West until the 15th century.

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                    2. And this kind of behavior, Mary, is why your view on my manners and accuracy has no weight.

                      You gave a correction that is not just inaccurate, but is so inaccurate it was a long running gag in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and you managed to be hysterical in rejecting a perfectly good figleaf of explanation.

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                    3. You still don’t know what I read, or when it was written, and why your “figleaf of an explanation” is not only wrong, but impossible. But you should have realized that it was.
                      This is why your rejection of an accurate view on your manners and accuracy has no weight.

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          2. Actually, human is a subset of both animal and person.

            Person is a distinct, non-biological category.

            The conflation of “person” with “human” is part of where silly things like “the fetus is not human before birth” comes from.

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    2. Here’s a bit of dialogue I wrote:
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      “I’m not an animal!”

      “It pains me to have to keep correcting you, but you insist on saying such silly things. You are an animal—”

      “No I’m not!”

      “You also keep interrupting me like an unmannered boor. As I was trying to say, you are an intelligent, educated, cultured, refined young lady — who is also an animal. As are we all.”

      “I’m not!”

      “What are you then, if not an animal? You’re not a plant. You’re not an inanimate object. You’re not an immaterial force, or a disembodied entity. The only category remaining is animal.”

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  2. About that Pole — remember a satire bit from a few decades ago about “Operation Vowel Storm” — to send vowels to the vowel-deprived people of Yugoslavia?

    There’s an island off their coast (I forget which country it’s in now) called “Krk”.

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    1. My idea of a “Bad Bunny” is addressed as “Miss” and often depicted with a staple near midriff. ( wags eyebrows Groucho style)

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  5. Apropos of nothing: Last night at the Mexican restaurant, a 3 year old boy in the booth across the aisle thought I was literally Santa Claus, and nobody could convince him otherwise. (I didn’t really try.) Never pictured myself being old and fat enough to pass as Santa, but somehow I don’t mind. Cutest. Thing. Ever.

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    2. Nothing wrong with that. Some kids mistake me for (famous actor) or other (famous actor) or even (famous singer in a band). I’m not any of those guys, but it makes their day when you play along for a bit.

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      1. I’ve been mistaken for some actor I’ve never heard of, so that usually gets a “Who?”

        Was on my way for the Santa lookalike until I figured that being clean-shaven made the full-face CPAP mask work better. 55 years of beard (not a ZZ Top version–had to debeard every several months due to itching), but I can do without it. Surprised me.

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        1. I’ve told the story of the ~14 months toddler and “Daddy broke his face!!!!!!!!”. Hubby hasn’t had a beard since, and that has been 34 years ago. Hubby even tried to have the kid watch and help (as much as was safe) VS go shave it off and then show the toddler. Less than optimal results.

          Funny. Hilarious, even then. Once I knew the toddler was safe and okay. The scream of terror was worthy of a toddler. Surprised the neighbors didn’t come pounding at the door.

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      2. Tony Hawk, the pro skater, gets (repeatedly!) the best variation on this one. He often tweets about when people come up to him and tell him that he looks like… Tony Hawk. Or he’ll present his photo ID at the airport and the person behind the counter asks, “Huh. Tony Hawk. Like that skater guy?” And he says, with a perfectly straight face, “Yes. Exactly like that skater guy.”

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    4. And good for the kid! I’ve lost track of the number of kids who are terrified of Santa in full regalia.

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  6. Okay, I am seeing Lifetouch Photography going into the woodchipper, and I’m wondering why, specifically.

    I mean, I know why I am not in favor of them, I’m just wondering what incident made them end up in the cartoon there.

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          1. Does it remind you of the Child Care Panic of the 1980s? Clowns, Cults, “recovered memories”, and a whole bunch of adults ruined for life and often imprisoned on highly specious charges made up by fabulist prosecutors.

            And a bunch of lowlife scum getting away with heinous crimes against kids because everyone then “knew” it was all a panic, allowing the real predators to keep on preying.

            I suspect there will now be a flood of breathless and false “X is in the Epstein Files!!!” UpTo11 !!!!, and “the files are meant to cover up for Z!!!” Meanwhile, the real creeps will say “it was all a mass panic and a bunch of hooie” despite being provably (or at least credibly alleged) on that island with very little good reason besides the obvious.

            What a flustercluck….

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        2. Epstein had an airplane, and Hitler had a car.

          Some things are common enough, and come with false positives.

          Hitler’s mechanics apparently did not often try to blow him up, so somewhat complicit in what he did, depending on how much of his evil would have been easily inferred.

          A Kevin Bacon of finance people would have contacts associated with quite a lot of entities.

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      2. Okay. As someone who works in school photography (not for Lifetouch), this reads like a nothingburger. The individual studios are franchises, and if they follow the policies as stated in the article, there is absolutely zero connection to the Epstein mess.

        My beefs with them have to do with the way they treat their photographers and their methodology, not anything criminal.

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    1. meme of the center not actually moving, and now the left is shooting at people

      anyway, MAGA is a fairly big tent, especially these days.

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      1. Military types speak of the “Dependapotamus”. Its… harsh.

        For that which was depicted above, I suggest “PanzerFrau”

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  8. I think I actually formatted my last comment more or less correctly, but it seems to be trapped in the filter.

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  10. Overly intense rabbit here. The organ console proves it.

    The unwillingness to admit that perhaps, just perhaps, non-citizens display other criminal behaviors always impresses me. Willful blindness doesn’t quite begin to describe the effort they put into it.

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  11. Anybody else think that the Godzilla at the window looks like a Muppet that just extracted itself from an ash heap?

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  12. Voter ID won’t matter unless the Democrats counting the votes are executed when they count the 163 anyway and then certify the results.

    Someone needs to remind Harambe that hating the media enough is going to involve overcoming a tar and feather shortage.

    The horseshoe meme was created by a moron who doesn’t seem to realize that both ketamine and ivermectin are effective drugs that solve real problems, just not ALL problems.

    As opposed to the forms of collectivism they embrace, which don’t solve ANY problems, but breed more problems like rabbits on fertility drugs.

    The Statue of Liberty meme is missing a panel. It involves a Statue of Liberty standing over a neck stump smoking like a cigar.

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  13. I’ve usually thought of myself as the Happy Snail Cat, but I suspect if you asked around, King Derp Cat might be more accurate.

    Regarding the tank one — the U.S. Army Tank Corps did look at the idea, as this photo from late 1942 or early 1943 suggests:

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  15. As a total non-sequitur, is anyone going to Confinement Con? I would like to meet some people in real space instead of cyberspace. I can be reached at tmruwe at the positively charged email.

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  17. My new theory is that the Snail Wars in manuscripts have to do with the Masoretic Hebrew version of Psalm 57/58 becoming better known in the high Middle Ages. (Because curiously, out of the three St. Jerome psalter translations, the “Juxta Hebraicum” one does have different wording, but he translates the word that’s now read as “snail” as “vermis,” or worm.)

    Because the Masoretic reading of that Psalm threatens evildoers with melting into slime like a snail, instead of melting like wax (as in the LXX and Vulgate, and probably some alternate Hebrew reading).

    So that would “suddenly” make snails a symbol of being a hellbound wicked judge, bad ruler, or general evildoer, to exactly the monk/nun population that was drawing the funny animal pictures in the margins.

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  18. I also think that generally we don’t see “rabbits” in the manuscript margins. I think they’re “hares,” which supposedly have longer ears, squeenier hindquarters, and a solitary aboveground lifestyle. Hares appear in the Bible as unclean animals that were not eaten.

    However, it’s possible that some are rabbits, because they star in Prov. 30:24, 26 as one of the four “little things of the land” that are “wiser than all the wise,” because despite being a “weak people,” they make their bed/house “in the Rock.” That would make them either good people, or religious/clergy.

    That’s my amended theory, and I have no idea how to check the validity of this meme interpretation. I guess I’ll just poke around at some point.

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    1. And I’m not sure that the “paranoid bunny” in that meme is not a paranoid bat with its wings wrapped around itself — and long ears.

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