54 thoughts on “Lazy Memes Of Summer”

  3. Regarding that final meme, I was this weeks old when I learned that SPLINTERLESS toilet paper was patented in 1935. Travel into the past has a very definite limit.

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  4. Regarding an ice breaker in a business setting…

    When I worked in the coporate world, we had this horrifying event called a skip review, where the group would meet with the bosses boss, WITH THE BOSS PRESENT. Our group really liked our boss (we all still get together many years later), but one time going through this I got to introduce myself. My interesting fact was my wife and I had an article about us in the Wall Street Journal. The (fanatically corporate ladder climbing) VP running the meeting was visibly outraged – “What!? How did you get in the WSJ? I’ve never been in an article in the WSJ!” I laughed, maybe not as politely as I should have. It was especially funny because the article was about how we WEREN’T busting our asses for the corporate climb, but instead had found a good balance with part-time high skill jobs and raising our three kids. I did refrain from saying that.

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    1. That’s when you politely just say “Oh yeah: March twentieth, 1983. Page A-3, I think,” or whatever the look-it-up-yourself reference was, and leave it at that.

      And you walk out after the meeting with your britches clanking, wearing the biggest brass bollocks in the building.

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    2. That’s when you politely just say “Oh yeah: March twentieth, 1983. Page A-3, I think,” or whatever the look-it-up-yourself reference was, and leave it at that.

      And you walk out after the meeting with your britches clanking, wearing the biggest brass bollocks in the building.

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    1. You know this is not a joke, right?

      Election results are updated as often as new data is received from county election offices after the polls close at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots continue to be counted after Election Day during the canvass period; county elections officials must report final official results to the Secretary of State by July 3, 2026. The Secretary of State will certify the results on July 10, 2026.

      https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov

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  8. Maybe trials should be decided by a duel to the death between the opposing lawyers? 😁
    (Either way, society wins!)

    For the last time, the atomic bombs did not create Godzilla, they just woke him up.

    Gee, that Plague Doctor must be Canadian. 😧

    We could always reserve bombing L.A. as an option…

    Our only ‘gun problem’ is the government’s incessant efforts to take them.

    The Democrat party doesn’t just have a racist history; they’re even more racist today.

    The structure on the right is marginally less ugly, and the North Koreans could never have afforded that giant tower crane.

    The resemblance to Fauxcahontas is uncanny. Also disturbing.

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    1. Actually Atomic (fission) bombs didn’t wake up Gojira Hydrogen Bombs (Castle Bravo in particular) did :-) . After the Lucky Dragon 5 incident, the Japanese were really leary of Hydrogen bombs.

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    2. It mentioned soil compaction as an issue. This is why various redwood locations (like the comparatively nearby Calaveras Big Trees) build boardwalks on popular trails. (The grove next to the visitors’ center—literally 1000 feet or so away from the highway—has a boardwalk. The other groves, which require a long drive and a hike to reach, do not.)

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  13. Why was their cable management so awful?

    1. Requirements kept changing, every time they assimilated someone new.
    2. They automated it.
    3. They used AI to automate it.

    Signed: Software Test

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    2. I think it’s Vlad the Impaler.

      Also, mods, there is a comment above from “website Administrator” saying the same thing. That’s from me, accidentally logged in as the admin of another site. Feel free to delete that (but apparently I can’t). Sorry.

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  15. Also, if you don’t think people working 40 hours a week should be in poverty, then maybe you should look at your definition of “poverty” – because it sucks. (And what Picard said.)

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    1. And how about those folks betting on a startup by working 90 hours a week for a pittance plus stock options, eating ramen every night and carpooling from shared apartments. They must be stopped, comrade.

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  16. When my beloved saw the story about Europeans going nuts over ranch dressing he said, “If Heinz and Kraft have any sense they’ll make TSA-approved ranch dressing.”

    Last night I read him a tweet saying Kraft has created multi-packs of ranch dressing that meet TSA standards he said, “What did I tell you?”

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    2. I was going to suggest that someone tell the visitors about the dry ranch mix you can buy at the grocery store and mix with your own base (which I think is mayo; beats me, I don’t care for ranch).

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      1. It’s been a while since I made it, but it might be based on buttermilk. I’m not sure what the buttermilk availability situation is Over There.

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        2. Same with Mayo or Salad Dressing (non-egg based Mayo). But over there should have sour cream or cream cheese, and 1/2&1/2.

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      2. Powder Ranch can be mixed with Mayo, the fake mayo (salad dressing), sour cream, or even cream cheese; with some 1/2&1/2 mixed in with the latter two (more liquid).

        Mayo? No. Don’t like.

        Salad Dressing option. What I grew up with, instead of Mayo, no one else in the household likes, so don’t bother.

        Cream Cheese or Sour Cream. Best for chip dips.

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  17. Re. the Battle of Cambrai. The Germans invented a new word, Tankschrecken, or “tank terror” to describe the emotions the soldiers described as they saw the first British tanks rolling over the trenches. The guys fled, and the Brits would have made a huge gain of territory if they’d been able to follow up in the initial attack.

    I read the original reports when I was doing research in the German Army Research Archive. It was fascinating.

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  19. Thank you for the memes. My favorites were the bricks one and the Oppenheimer one. In Sean Connery’s defense Zardoz was 20 years before LOTR, and it probably traumatizshed him into avoid shcriptsh he did not undershtand.

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  20. I guarantee you that you don’t hate your IT person having to pull up a chair as much as your IT person hates having to pull up a chair.

    Especially if there is only one chair.

    As annoying as it may be for you, please don’t stand over them, even if you are just curious. You can be curious over to the side a bit.

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  21. I’m celebrating Juneteeth.

    This weekend we’re doing a convention in Dayton, Ohio. In downtown Dayton, street parking is free on weekends, and on holidays. Since June 19 is now a holiday, I got free parking all three days, which reduces our break-even point a few dollars — and as this convention is turning out weaker than we’d hoped, every dollar we don’t have to make will help us get into the black.

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    1. Our State Parks department decided to celebrate Juneteenth by putting out a “historian park pass” which gets four people in FOR FREE to almost all of them, through the end of the year. And it’s available through July 6th, which makes me think that they want to make sure people celebrating the 250th notice it as well.

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