I celebrated my birthday by going with the family to Green Dragon in Ephrata, PA (middle of Lancaster County, Amish country!). It was nice to just exist among real normies for a while. Several fun things happened, a couple even related to some memes.
One meme related was a shop that sold cute little crocheted animals had cute little crocheted “Emotional Support Dumpster Fires” complete with the catch phrase: I’m Fine. It’s Fine. Everything Is Just Fine. My oldest son sent a picture to a friend at work, who had my son buy two for him. When he went to pay, there was no one in the little shop, so he left the $8 next to the unattended cash drawer. It was very nice to be in a high trust part of the world again.
Another shop sold lots of properly phrased t-shirts (the kind that would get a kid suspended from school in most suburban school districts). My favorite was “I need new conspiracy theories. All my old ones have come true.”
When I saw an Indian family buy good cuts of meat from an Amish butcher stall, I said “That family is definitely assimilated.”
My youngest son drove, as his Tesla was the only car that would fit us all, and he likes the FSD. When it’s driving, the display shows what the system “sees” on the road. Driving through a small town near Green Dragon, a Amish driven horse and buggy was coming towards us. The display showed a person walking in front of a small truck. Horses everywhere are insulted at the representation.
My sister was so spoiled. I sent her the one about hiding toddler pants and she said Daddy threw away her ugly black shoes because she cried every time Mamma made her wear them! UPDATE: They had been black and white but got so scuffed up our mother dyed them black! Maybe sister had a point.
In the South, even Methodists immerse. Only the Episcopalians sprinkle. Unless there’s a drought. Then, the Baptists pour over, the Methodists wipe with a damp cloth, and the Episcopalians hand out an IOU. ;)
[Yes, it is a joke. Almost. Right now, it’s dry enough that people are spraying the catfish for ticks.]
Is that the machine, or the Methodist? Because they are both ‘coffee makers’ in different senses of the term. 😄
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“It is a maker—”
“Aieeeee!”
“…of coffee.”
I still remember the completely blank look on the server’s face when my cousin ordered “sweet tea” from her in a restaurant out here in Silicon Valley while visiting from Indiana.
That one should be right there in the definition of “um… what?”
After seeing the oh-so-condescending post about eggs, [Narrator voice: Show people you’ve never bought eggs without telling people you’ve never bought eggs.] I have serious doubts.
I must be Hitler, homophobic, raaaaaacist, and transphobic. (Being wary of a firearm wielding tranny ain’t a phobia, it’s common sense.)fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
FISHER looks plausible, but that character peeking out from between the fox’s hind leg and his tail looks awfully squared-off for an S. Could be an E, making WEHER another candidate.
Those squarish fonts, man… I saw a building with a great big logo on it — UES — in a font so square that I first read it as “LIES” (Once upon a time somebody wrote (in Playboy, IIRC) that the words “FLICK” and “FLICKER” were banned from comic books in the 50s-60s to avoid a related misread.)
UES turned out to be Universal Environmental Services, a firm that says it’s “on a mission to make renewable energy services universal…” et-buzzwordy-cetera. I hope that labeling their building “LIES” was done by a hand that mocked them, and a heart that fed.
Many modern AI image models, including Flux-based ones, have training and post-training adjustments that make them hesitant or inconsistent when rendering highly pointed, sharp, or potentially “threatening” blade tips—especially in photorealistic styles. This isn’t a strict outright ban on all swords (as you’ve seen some blades generate), but the very fine, needle-like thrusting point typical of a true musketeer-style rapier often gets softened, rounded, obscured by angle/lighting, or subtly altered to avoid triggering violence-related guardrails.
Got some very pretty pierced cup hilts on ‘musketeer’ rapiers; piercing was HUGE gaps, though. And Grok also included a knucklebow, rather uncommon with the cup hilt.
Interestingly, if you look closely you will note that he drew the “lookin’ fer a fight” guy wearing award ribbons on his fatigues in an obvious combat zone, but no visible rank.
And that argument about the “easiest and lowest level of necromancy” is obviously from someone with a sheltered life. Most (non-sheltered) people spent their lives saying “I can sleep when I’m dead” and such things. They do NOT want to be raised from the dead. You think they want to have to deal with all the bulls**t they put up with for however many years they lived ALL OVER AGAIN? No wonder zombies are always pissed – you woke them from the first good nap they’ve had in decades.
Europe is almost as bad. Pocketbook as bad. The wait, I suspect, is as bad (even if not hearing about it on this side of the big pond). As far as I know, no countries in Europe have MAID.
A judge ruled that a doctor who killed a woman by drugging her, and when that failed, having her relatives hold her down while she begged for her life, for the lethal injection — couldn’t have know what she did was wrong.
According To Hoyt 
Does that place have an arcade?
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I do not know. Maybe we should check it out. For science!
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I celebrated my birthday by going with the family to Green Dragon in Ephrata, PA (middle of Lancaster County, Amish country!). It was nice to just exist among real normies for a while. Several fun things happened, a couple even related to some memes.
One meme related was a shop that sold cute little crocheted animals had cute little crocheted “Emotional Support Dumpster Fires” complete with the catch phrase: I’m Fine. It’s Fine. Everything Is Just Fine. My oldest son sent a picture to a friend at work, who had my son buy two for him. When he went to pay, there was no one in the little shop, so he left the $8 next to the unattended cash drawer. It was very nice to be in a high trust part of the world again.
Another shop sold lots of properly phrased t-shirts (the kind that would get a kid suspended from school in most suburban school districts). My favorite was “I need new conspiracy theories. All my old ones have come true.”
When I saw an Indian family buy good cuts of meat from an Amish butcher stall, I said “That family is definitely assimilated.”
My youngest son drove, as his Tesla was the only car that would fit us all, and he likes the FSD. When it’s driving, the display shows what the system “sees” on the road. Driving through a small town near Green Dragon, a Amish driven horse and buggy was coming towards us. The display showed a person walking in front of a small truck. Horses everywhere are insulted at the representation.
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…as they rightly ought be.
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SFBS!
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My sister was so spoiled. I sent her the one about hiding toddler pants and she said Daddy threw away her ugly black shoes because she cried every time Mamma made her wear them! UPDATE: They had been black and white but got so scuffed up our mother dyed them black! Maybe sister had a point.
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You would think with so many Northerners moving to Florida some of the alligators would be “sprinklers” but I guess not.
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In the South, even Methodists immerse. Only the Episcopalians sprinkle. Unless there’s a drought. Then, the Baptists pour over, the Methodists wipe with a damp cloth, and the Episcopalians hand out an IOU. ;)
[Yes, it is a joke. Almost. Right now, it’s dry enough that people are spraying the catfish for ticks.]
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I’ve heard of a tribe in the Sahara whose baptismal practice is a sand ‘burial’, as they just don’t have the water to spare.
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How do you identify a Methodist coffee maker?
The label says “Do not immerse.”
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Is that the machine, or the Methodist? Because they are both ‘coffee makers’ in different senses of the term. 😄
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“It is a maker—”
“Aieeeee!”
“…of coffee.”
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I asked the guy who posted whether it was sweet or unsweet tea. Things things matter.
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A-HA!
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I still remember the completely blank look on the server’s face when my cousin ordered “sweet tea” from her in a restaurant out here in Silicon Valley while visiting from Indiana.
That one should be right there in the definition of “um… what?”
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“…and an unsweet tea, please.”
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“Y’all ain’t from around here, are ya.”
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We’re getting rain, just not a lot (which is the way you like it, but, yeah).
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Is there intelligent life in Liberal Land?
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After seeing the oh-so-condescending post about eggs, [Narrator voice: Show people you’ve never bought eggs without telling people you’ve never bought eggs.] I have serious doubts.
I must be Hitler, homophobic, raaaaaacist, and transphobic. (Being wary of a firearm wielding tranny ain’t a phobia, it’s common sense.)fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
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Guess who has a really sensitive keyboard….
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There is, actually. Parasites can’t live long without a host.
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No, you have to give up your brain to live there.
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Trivia: Someone responded to the chart of immigrant percentages that a similar percentage of Ireland and Norway came to the US.
Epstein files – we should not make arrests solely on the basis of possible code words in emails.
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If they’re here illegally, freeloading on the welfares, they can go back too.
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Sleestacks!!
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The Sleestaks are attacking! Walk for your lives! 🤣
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“Hrrrssssssssssssiiisssssslllhhhhhrrrr!”
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“Walk away, walk away!!” 😄
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All right, people. The headstone the fox is sleeping on has a last name than ends HER.
Does anyone know any last names that end HER and are short enough that a fox’s tail could cover up the rest?
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FISHER
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FISHER looks plausible, but that character peeking out from between the fox’s hind leg and his tail looks awfully squared-off for an S. Could be an E, making WEHER another candidate.
Those squarish fonts, man… I saw a building with a great big logo on it — UES — in a font so square that I first read it as “LIES” (Once upon a time somebody wrote (in Playboy, IIRC) that the words “FLICK” and “FLICKER” were banned from comic books in the 50s-60s to avoid a related misread.)
UES turned out to be Universal Environmental Services, a firm that says it’s “on a mission to make renewable energy services universal…” et-buzzwordy-cetera. I hope that labeling their building “LIES” was done by a hand that mocked them, and a heart that fed.
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Thor, to Zeus, post flick: “You flick too hard, damn it!”
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Zeus, to Thor: “That’s your opinion. Ask Hera!”
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Hmm — that’s three lines. The top, middle, and bottom of the S.
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What rules out it being an E? I can’t see curvature in those lines.
When I’m finally recognized as the rightful Ultimate Despot, EVERYTHING’S gonna be Times New Roman or Courier, on pain of a good shock-collarin’.
I’ll reserve Comic Sans for my own exclusive use.
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There was a sign trade magazine that had a yearly Ugly Sign Contest issue.
One year, a candidate was a video rental store called SUPERFLICKS.
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My other choice,
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Dreher
Maher
Locher
Kalher (usually Kahler, but there are always alternate spellings)
Speicher
Mecher
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I think only Dreher is plausible, given the three lines between the tail and the leg.
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There are lots of Germanic names that could fit, I just tossed off a few that immediately came to mind.
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Maher. What’s visible is a capital A
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OR… that last letter is really an A, with a li’l white pigeon-donated speck making it look like an R.
So, SHEA?
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That is definitely an R. The upper left corner is square and the upper right corner is rounded.
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No, not an A. There is a horizontal line across the bottom. The visible parts can only belong to a B, E or S.
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Hmmm. Hadn’t even thought of B. “BH” is a not-uncommon digraph in Gaelic names. This is harder than it looked!
But there’s still hope: The science of CPR progresses apace. Let’s dig her up and ask her!
(No, we can’t just move the fox. The EPA would be all over us.)
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I suspect ASHER. There isn’t much room behind the tail for many more letters.
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That’s an S under the fox’s tail and I think just one letter before it, so ASHER is the most likely candidate.
I see JP Kalishek beat me to it.
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I see AI now has pretty much solved the finger problem but cannot yet handle rifle optics nor handguns in retention holsters.
I have Leared which singing trio really needs autotune – they’ve got the lyrics down exactly, but cackling and ebonics really grate.
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AI is currently crap with guns in general and hit and miss with swords and other weapons. I suspect it’s partly due to anti-violence guardrails.
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Grok confirms …
Got some very pretty pierced cup hilts on ‘musketeer’ rapiers; piercing was HUGE gaps, though. And Grok also included a knucklebow, rather uncommon with the cup hilt.
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Yeah, if even the fairly uncensored Grok has trouble with it, that tells you something.
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Nor put the right shape magazine and well on an M4 series rifle. At least Amelia has proper trigger discipline. 😊
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Yes, the racoon in the law chair speaks truth.
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And Bill Mauldlin!
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Yes, that was a nice inclusion.
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Bill Mauldin was the best. And some of his books are still in print.
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Interestingly, if you look closely you will note that he drew the “lookin’ fer a fight” guy wearing award ribbons on his fatigues in an obvious combat zone, but no visible rank.
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I saw the ribbons and the clean shave; didn’t notice the lack of rank.
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Jase T. Cat agrees with Buffy.
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Bugs vs. Windshields – everything is relative . . .
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The list of liberal slurs should also include “Bot” and/or “Russian Bot”
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To be fair, there are a LOT of those.
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Bot…Bot…Bot…Bot..(tag) NAZI! (runs)
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Or.
Bot…Bot..Bot…Bot… (tag) Mailey! (runs)
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You can not outrun the carp. The aardvark ensures it.
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I’m pissed about that Waffle House incident. A clear violation of the man’s First Amendment right to practice his religion.
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I don’t know what religion requires gators to be baptized, but yes.
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So-bek!
So-bek!
You asked…. 8-)
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SBC Chaplain at University of Florida!
They dunk in Gatorade!
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And that argument about the “easiest and lowest level of necromancy” is obviously from someone with a sheltered life. Most (non-sheltered) people spent their lives saying “I can sleep when I’m dead” and such things. They do NOT want to be raised from the dead. You think they want to have to deal with all the bulls**t they put up with for however many years they lived ALL OVER AGAIN? No wonder zombies are always pissed – you woke them from the first good nap they’ve had in decades.
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It’s interesting that the Haitian Zombies were slaves of the magic-user that raised them from the grave.
Not actually dangerous and when the spell was broken (via salt) they went back to their graves.
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Caribbean slavery was much worse than American slavery. They had to import enough slaves to entirely replace the slave population every five years.
No wonder the most horrible thing they could think of was being unable to escape even by dying.
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ABSOLUTELY. The left denies this.
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And for the Pooh meme all I hear is Sterling Holloway saying “Oh bother”
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If only Amelia had so many dedicated fans in England….. (grin)
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”Oy, you, yes you, are you a fan of Amelia?”
”Well, constable, I can’t say as I am…”
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Restore GB has already elected officials. Within — two weeks of becoming a party
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It would take a heart of stone not to laugh……
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/02/22/leftists-who-fled-to-canada-are-panicking-and-going-broke-n2425308
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I’m not even trying to resist. 🤣
Y’all done made yer beds…
I especially like the part where they are Shocked, Shocked! at the high cost of that ‘Free!’ Canuckistanian health care. 😄
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That “High Cost” has multiple definitions.
Obvious: Financial.
Secondary: Wait for care. Implied third definition.
Third: MAID (By application, is not voluntary. See item #2.)
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FWIW
Europe is almost as bad. Pocketbook as bad. The wait, I suspect, is as bad (even if not hearing about it on this side of the big pond). As far as I know, no countries in Europe have MAID.
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The Netherlands does.
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A judge ruled that a doctor who killed a woman by drugging her, and when that failed, having her relatives hold her down while she begged for her life, for the lethal injection — couldn’t have know what she did was wrong.
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That’s right, “There are no Death Panels!!”
No, they just put you on their years-long waiting lists and hope you croak. 😡
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