Friday Ephemeraren’t
Feel free to assemble your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with some tempting real-estate photographs, of which this one is rather special; some thoughts on the statistical proximity of the planet Mercury; ducks in a row; via Dicentra, a job worse than yours; and some cannabis-infused peppermint fondant, covered in dark chocolate, and gold, obviously.
Oh, and how to entertain your stoner neighbours.
Furbaby. Furkid.
Pogonip, I was blissfully ignorant before I read your post.
You owe me a bourbon. Neat.
Well, this person seems sane.
Well, this person seems sane.
Accompanied, I see, by the clicking bitches.
the clicking bitches.
Band name.
I tried to tell my wife that credible people would blame the NZ mosque massacre on Trump. She insisted that I was being ridiculous until I tried to get her to bet on it. As we narrowed down who would be considered “credible people” and I rattled off names of well known MSM talking heads, she backed away from the bet. She still didn’t think it would go that far but her doubts were showing (plus anytime I suggest a bet on a “ridiculous” thing that I’ve said, people suddenly grasp the reason in my madness). It never, ever, ever occurred even to me that someone would find a way to pin this on Chelsea Clinton. WTSF?
Meanwhile in Nigeria…
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44111/muslim-extremists-murder-over-30-nigerian-jacob-airey
Meanwhile in Nigeria…
Lone wolf, mustn’t blame all Mohammedans, not real Mohammedanism, etc., etc. Not at all the same thing as a guy who travels to Pakistan and North Korea, calls himself an eco-fascist, and digs communist China. Clearly that is a white supremacist alt-right neo-Nazi like all wypipo.
Meanwhile in Nigeria..
Christians murdered cuz Christian are never going to garner headlines – add to that, poor & black and it’s crickets all the way down.
A friend suggested we call them trippograms.
Is there an app? Asking for a friend.
What’s the deal with the clicking bitches?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/porn-mums-british-tv/
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I am disgruntled. I subscribe to a service called ipsy.com; for $10/month they send you 4 or 5 cosmetic items. (You can pick the colors you want.). Since even 1 item of drugstore makeup will, with a couple of exceptions, cost you $10, this is quite a savings. Each month they put your 4 or 5 items in a makeup bag. Since St. Patrick’s Day is a big holiday in the U.S. I was expecting a cute green shamrock-y bag, or at least green. Instead they sent me an ugly brownish-pink bag with the following message imprinted: “And Off She Went To Change The World.” They could have used that ANY month. Doofuses.
And off she went to put the bag up for sale on the Internet.
I’m finally getting over walking pneumonia so I won’t be Internetting as much, others will have to pick up the slack on Ephemeraren’t. Or we can have Jock do it—border collies are fast typists. 🐶
The Internet is a godsend when you’re home sick for two weeks.
Does anyone here have, or has anyone here, had, a border collie? When I was a kid we had the only one I’ve ever seen that wasn’t black and white. She had a pedigree, from whatever the border collie breeders association was called—at the time AKC wanted nothing to do with border collies. When we went to look at the puppies, we met Mom, Dad, and the siblings, all of whom were b/w. Wolfie was solid gray and we got her free since the owner said he knew he’d never convince anyone she was a border collie. (Dad was just looking for an outside dog to keep his lonely rabbit dog company, so he didn’t care if she was “real” or not.)
Meanwhile in Nigeria…
Which is one of the many reasons I’m unmoved about the news from New Zealand.
Does anyone here have, or has anyone here, had, a border collie?
Had one when I was a wee lad (back in the 70s). Brownie (yes, he was brown and white) was the smartest dog I ever met. Learned all the dog commands by *watching* my mom try to train my grandmother’s stupid mutt. Alas, when we moved to the Greatest State in the Union my mom found another home for him (or so she’s always asserted…).
https://www.sailfeed.com/2011/11/the-goodbad-old-days-of-hand-drafting-part-ii/
Meanwhile in Nigeria…
Well, yes, Meanwhile in Nigeria, quite as contrasting with New Zealand . . .
. . . . where even from the initial announcements in the news, the overall issue was not, is not, and will never be which faith is getting targeted.
The major reason for one collection of murders getting more noted over the other is going to remain the slaughter in the middle of ongoing conflict vs slaughter in a basically peaceful environment . . . .
And now for your enjoyment, a musical interlude . . . .
Meanwhile in France.
This has been happening for the past 18 weeks and there’s nothing about it in the British media. If Putin was doing this in Russia, there’d be calls for sanctions.
Ducks on the ceiling.
Ducks on the ceiling
Sequel to “Snakes on the Plane”
Google 1998: Don’t Be Evil
Google 2019: Party like it’s 1984
“Does anyone here have, or has anyone here, had, a border collie?”
I’ve never owned any dogs, but when I was in my late teens our upstairs neighbour had a border collie, a Jack Russell, and a… brown… dog. (He was a stray who literally jumped into her car when she was leaving work, and she didn’t have the heart to give him away. Never did work out what he was. Definitely a bit of chocolate labrador – same colour and basic shape – but smaller, stockier, and scruffier, with huge paws.)
I used to walk them sometimes, and the intelligence of the collie was so obvious. She was like a mother hen to the other two; she’d occasionally shoot you a look that said, “You see what I have to put up with? C’mon, let’s go chase sticks.” They’ve been my favourite breed ever since.
She was the usual black-and-white, though. I’ve never seen one a solid colour.
Pogonip wrote, “We’re out in the boondocks now, or the pogonips, I guess. so the only sight WE have is the traffic light at the corner of BF and E Streets.”
It must be so festive at Christmas with the glittering lights, changing all the time: green… amber… red… red and amber… and back to green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74aK8w2910c&feature=youtu.be (3:49)