Friday Ephemera
A moment of new-parent panic. || De-pouching. || Somehow, I’d never seen a punt gun. || Full points for grip. || Atop a turbine. || Our betters are the clever ones. || Bathing scenes. || Beware of the dog. || All-you-can-eat buffet-discount technology of note. || Come closer, kissy face. || I do quite like this idea. || Chicago clouds. || Effective, yes, but just a tad excessive. || “Even at lightspeed, it would take you 8.7 hours to travel around it once.” || When women do it. || WandaVision. || Now is the time. || Historic newspaper photos, a searchable archive. (h/t, Things) || The thrill of the arts. || Overalls of note. || Entirely unrelated, a refuge for sinners. || Forbidden love. || And finally, gloriously, a thing of beauty.
De-pouching.
The eye have it!
|| “Even at lightspeed, it would take you 8.7 hours to travel around it once.” || When women do it. ||
Cute.
Historic newspaper photos, a searchable archive. (h/t, Things)
A few years back a granddaughter of the Curies visited Cal to tell of what it was like following her grandparents into research. A local newspaper headline, in very large print:
Curies’ Ancestor Says More Women Should Be In Science.
The thrill of the arts.
The thrill of the arts.
|| The thrill of the arts. || Overalls of note. ||
Cute II.
Our betters are the clever ones.
Clever…er, I don’t think that word means what that tattooed person thinks it means…
I hope that’s a fake picture, but it’s quite believable in today’s climate.
What part of the body is that, anyways? Inside elbow?
Effective, yes, but just a tad excessive.
W’need you t’ light the Fiiire.
—The Rise And Follies Of Cape Breton Island, restaged for video.
”De-pouching”
I always wondered how they were born.
“Somehow, I’d never seen a punt gun.”
You haven’t lived!
“WandaVision.”
This is….odd. I predict it’ll be a smash hit or an utter stinker. I really doubt there’s any chance of middle ground with this…
And finally, gloriously, a thing of beauty.
LOL Brilliant. 🙂
Morning, all.
I predict it’ll be a smash hit or an utter stinker.
It’s… intriguing. And dense with hints.
Brilliant. 🙂
She did rather steal his thunder.
Can you guess who? Of course you can.
A moment of new-parent panic.
Lack of sleep does that. Loved the little pat at the end.
Loved the little pat at the end.
Yes, it’s rather sweet. You can imagine his relief at (a), not actually having misplaced the baby, and (b), avoiding the subsequent bone-searing umbrage of the dear wife.
How to pet a porcupine.
Via Perry.
“Even at lightspeed, it would take you 8.7 hours to travel around it once.” || When women do it.
On Fridays I come for the juxtapositions.
Cute.
Cute II.
On Fridays I come for the juxtapositions.
This is my innocent face.
[ Holds up picture of adorable puppy. ]
Are porcupine or hedgehog spines that nasty? I’ve only ever seen echidnas up close and the prickles aren’t too sharp. I was under the impression from videos that hedgehogs were quite pattable…
The advance of science.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/how-build-pringle-ringle
The advance of science.
Sorcery!
This is my innocent face.
[ Holds up picture of adorable puppy. ]
Oh, no, no no, This is an Innocent picture. And there’s also this one, and that one, and another one . . .
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/how-build-pringle-ringle
How to balance leaves.
“Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new,”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnam
Jamie Smith is an attorney and mother who cares about civil rights. And sacrificing foetuses to the devil. Obviously.
“The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pushed Me To Join The Satanic Temple”
How is that not a Babylon Bee headline? They put The Onion to shame. Reality is their only serious competition.
sinners
nuns Benedictine – any connection with oeufs of the same denomination?
punt gun
Doubles as a pole for transitting
My forgetful new parent story…
Woke at 0 dark thirty to an ominous orange glare on opposite bedroom wall.
FIRE!
I was out of bed, grabbed baby, and down to the first floor in about 3 seconds flat. Then my brain engaged and I realized two things. One, the Orange glare was from the switch light on a new power strip i had put in our bedroom that day. Hence no FIRE!
Two, I had left my dear wife sleeping in our burning bedroom. Oops.
Conversation at breakfast was … Amusing? Yeah, let’s go with amusing.
“WandaVision.”
Between Pixar ripping off an obscure Canadian kids show and now Marvel ripping off that one episode of Supernatural, I’m starting to think Disney is out of ideas.
Two, I had left my dear wife sleeping in our burning bedroom. Oops.
I suspect that’s one of those incidents to which said wife may draw attention whenever visitors arrive. Possibly at some length. Until the end of time.
and now Marvel ripping off that one episode of Supernatural,
I’m not familiar with Supernatural, so I can’t say.
How to pet a porcupine.
There will never be a porcupine more lovable than Teddy Bear.
She’s a Ph.D., you know.
Overalls:
A ______ and his money are soon _______.
“Bathing scenes.”
I can’t help imagining the one in the background thinking, “I wish he’d bloody hurry up in there. I’ve been waiting for hours…”
“Beware of the dog.”
Ooh, Cambridge Latin Course filmstrip flashback… “Cerberus est in atrium… [BEEEEP]”
One of the things I loved about Latin at school wasn’t so much the language as learning that the ancient Romans were more like modern urban dwellers than the peasants of the Middle Ages, a thousand years later. “Beware of the dog”, apartment blocks, shopping malls… it was almost like a real-life Flintstones.
“Overalls of note.”
“Eco washed”. Could’ve fooled me.
Not that I could ever be mistaken for a follower of fashion, but remember when Gucci was smart? They’re just taking the piss now.
I’m not familiar with Supernatural, so I can’t say.
There’s an episode where the two protagonists are thrust into a succession of obvious clones of popular TV shows by a malicious entity. They’re the only ones who recognize what’s going on, but have to play along with their “parts’ in order to get out.
It’s played as a comedy. Probably the best individual scene is when Sam realizes they’re in CSI: Miami and tries to get the scene to end by making a terrible pun and putting on his sunglasses.
Probably the best individual scene is when Sam realizes they’re in CSI: Miami and tries to get the scene to end by making a terrible pun and putting on his sunglasses.
I’m not familiar with CSI: Miami either.
I’m a man of simple pleasures.
She’s a Ph.D., you know.
“Trump yard signs and other white nationalist symbols”
Er, wut?
Er, wut?
Yes, it’s curious how Pretentiously Aggrieved Bint #22,604 offers no specifics, let alone evidence, of “white nationalist symbols” – which you’d think she might have done, assuming her story were true and not just another low-class, attention-seeking hustle. Instead, she mentions a humdrum Trump yard sign, as if that were – and could only be – damning proof of seething racial hatred and great personal danger. And Pretentiously Aggrieved Bint #22,604 does this, proudly, while fishing for sympathy, and freebies, and while anticipating applause.
I’m a man of simple pleasures.
I’ll admit that although I enjoy a clever nod to pop culture, the Family Guy-ing of everything does not seem to be a positive development in entertainment.
I’ve noted elsewhere that between Family Guy and meme culture, we’ve become the aliens from the TNG episode Darmok on the Ocean.
She’s a Ph.D., you know.
Carey “No Es” Bueno.
She’s a Ph.D., you know.
The only Ph.D I’ve ever knowingly worked with never brought it up unless he was illustrating why he got the hell out of academia. We might never have known he had a doctorate if it hadn’t passed through the grapevine from those who hired him.
TimT: ” I was under the impression from videos that hedgehogs were quite pattable…”
They aren’t wickedly sharp like porcupine quills, no, but frankly, it’s the fleas and ticks that are the worst thing…
They aren’t wickedly sharp like porcupine quills, no,
And suddenly, an image comes to mind of Julia busy in the kitchen with a porcupine and a rolling pin.
And Pretentiously Aggrieved Bint #22,604 does this, proudly, while fishing for sympathy, and freebies, and while anticipating applause.
This.
Because if they didn’t get all of that and more, along with groveling apologies and all sorts of boot licking pandering most of the times they tried it, they’d stop doing it.
The culture today is incentivizing this kind of behavior. It’s almost as if these people are in a competition to see how utterly ridiculous they can be before someone says no.
Frankly I am surprised she got as much pushback as she did.
“She’s a Ph.D., you know.”
I take it she’s not one of the 1-in-3 black people who support the President, then?
I take it she’s not one of the 1-in-3 black people who support the President, then?
I’m guessing not. But she is an empowered left-leaning woman who’s “terrified” and “traumatised” by a ‘Vote Trump’ yard sign.
“Other white nationalist symbols”.
I suspect 50 stars and 13 stripes were involved.
Is it just the crosses of Saint George/Andrew/Patrick that are considered “white nationalist” symbols in the UK or is the whole flag now “double plus no good”.