Friday Ephemera
Look away now. || I laughed and I’m not sorry. || Maybe a bath. || Giant cat roams British countryside. || Today’s word is suboptimal. || Does both ends, you know. || He does this better than you do. || High drama. || Kinship detected. (h/t, Julia) || The thrill of fertilisation. || Modern fretting. || Wait for it. || You want one and you know it. || At last, an hour of whale probe ambience. || First-person parkour with balloons and monkeys. || Tape recorders of yore. (h/t, Things) || Light and layered glass. || More glamourous than thou. || It has “autonomous steaming technology.” || Snow in Nagano. || Not a lot happened, then quite a lot did. || And finally, the heroic intervention didn’t go entirely to plan.
Chiffon toilet paper
Meanwhile, back in the Old World, Bronco and San Izal were the shiny, hard papers of choice for real people.
Rather curiously, my old boarding school had it’s name printed on every sheet of the rolls.
There was also a Chiffon margarine.
“If you think it’s butter, but it’s not…it’s Chiffon.”
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
It’s a bit like using Diaphanous as a brand name for lard. Promising more than it can deliver, really.
Until very recently you couldn’t sell yellow margarine in Quebec. It had to be coloured white. This all done, supposedly, to protect the dairy industry.
There was also a Chiffon margarine.
Their jingle…
…phrasing is very important.
Until very recently you couldn’t sell yellow margarine in Quebec.
An internet search shows that the change was made in 2008. Good grief: even Wisconsin repealed a similar law in 1967.
Until very recently you couldn’t sell yellow margarine in Quebec.
But you could mix in a packet of provided yellow food coloring.
But you could mix in a packet of provided yellow food coloring.
True. My uncle was in the bakery supply business and assures me there was a black market for out of province yellow margarine. Although he never made it clear where it could be purchased. I have mental images of back doors and déppaneurs.
…phrasing is very important.
Yes, best not to elide “it’s not”.
But you could mix in a packet of provided yellow food coloring.
I remember doing that as a very young child, with margarine packets smuggled across the border.
Ironically, we bought margarine partly because the Health Authorities told us it was healthier than butter. Once their findings were shown to be false and fraudulent, we went back to butter.
assures me there was a black market for out of province yellow margarine.
Anyone who traveled out-of-province or out-of-state could, if they wished, make a little money buying such goods in bulk: margarine, liquor, tobacco, etc. And more recently non-low-flow toilets and faucets from Canada to the States. One didn’t have to do it in bulk–no truckloads–just a trunk full of goodies to sell to grateful friends and acquaintances. I vaguely recall people talking about this back in the 70’s and 80’s.
we went back to butter.
It is difficult to improve on butter.
[ Thinks back fondly to butter-drenched muffins. ]
butter-drenched muffins
Band name.
even Wisconsin repealed a similar law in 1967
Do not underestimate the power of the dairy lobby in Canada. You know the show Banshee? Where all the crime is controlled by a psychopathic Amish meat packer? It’s like that, but with milk.
Oops.
butter-drenched muffins
Band name.
Martha and the Muffins. Actual band name. In keeping with a previous thread’s playlist.
UCF is just down the road from me. This is funny. Looking forward to the day when we can rat our our friends and neighbors anonymously. Hey, they asked for this shit.
In which the Washington Post, through the efforts of Philip Bump, pleads the “Carl Douglas” * defence for Antifa &c.
*As it is known in our household- “Well, they may have been beating the living crap out of each other, but they were doing it with expert timing so that makes it OK”.
butter-drenched muffins
I do believe I saw a delightful piece of adult cinema once with that very title.
defence for Antifa &c.
Shorter WaPo: “It’s good for black people to riot, burn and murder when a black thug is shot by the police.” Also: “We love Marxist revolutionary thugs.”
Jonah Goldberg of the National Topsider is quoted.
From WashPo to the New York Times, that bastion of world-class journalism, whose editors saw fit to publish the following, and Twitter – in no way run by leftwing activists – thought I needed to know about it
https://twitter.com/i/events/1349409058785292289
“Jobless women selling nudes on OnlyFans are struggling to pay bills”
Good lord, that WaPo spewing was painful.
9 months of looting, riots, cities burning, Leftwing politicians encouraging it, enabling it “who said protests were supposed to be comfortable?” because the nation REALLY is systematically racist and commits genocide against “black bodies”.
But several dozen escapees from a Village People LARP session who occupy the capitol briefly are worse because this was the Most Fair and Transparent Election EVAH!!!
argh
This is strange, but that Greta doll has less of an uncanny valley effect on me than does the real Greta.
UCF is just down the road from me.
Well, this will wipe out what the university is best known for.
Martha and the Muffins
Possibly inspired by Mojo Nixon’s “Stuffing Martha’s Muffins” to honor MTV VJ Martha Quinn.
And no, I’m not going to look it up to check. Why ruin innocent fun?
Can anybody provide a translation of the Japanese text accompanying that Greta doll? I have a suspicion that it would add to the hilarity.
Why ruin innocent fun?
I’m not going to.
There were actually two Marthas in Martha and the Muffins. Martha Ladly left the band after they recorded their second album. She was a visual/graphic design/artist. She went to work with Peter Saville Associates, a graphic design firm that designed many album sleeves for Factory Records.
To really bring this home, Ladly suggested the album title “Architecture and Morality” (referenced by David in an earlier thread) to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Laser-etched glass sculpture of caffeine molecule. Not to mention many others.
“…a massive demographic crisis […] and it’s still fantastically xenophobic.”
The latter may be the only thing preserving it through the former.
You know you want one.
Man I dunno from legal scholarship but this is some epic digging. Delineates the crazy spread of craziness from the bones to the heart and mind of Yank jurisprudence. Thought you Thompson guns especially might like it — the monkish rigor of this oddball #TimonofPhilly. His findings are dry as dust but pardon me fuckin’ appalling. https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/intersectionality-goes-to-court/
The standard trajectory.
[ Added: ]
It must be quite strange to go through life knowing that your woke pieties, on which your in-group status depend, are a complete sham. A transparent lie that’s easily uncovered, such that your own petty traps and games of Gotcha! can be turned against you. With farcical predictability.
It doesn’t sound healthy.
His findings are dry as dust
That was hard work. Back in the last century there was an English judge who insisted that counsel submit the gist of their case on a single side of A4 paper. Timon of Philly would do well to learn the technique. It would help him to improve the comprehesibility (if there is any) of his writing.
You know the show Banshee?
No, but it certainly looks interesting. Bonus that Homelander is in it.
I will have to check it out.
Well, this will wipe out what the university is best known for.
Actually, UCF had become a pretty good computer science and engineering school. They once were known as Florida Tech (not to be confused with FIT, Florida Institute of Technology further down the road in Melbourne). Many people who worked at Kennedy Space Center graduated from there. Not that one should be as terribly impressed as that sounds but that’s no reflection on the school. They have also expanded into the medical field with some success. But yes, it is all to laugh.
Banshee.
I second that endorsement.
It’s completely nuts, but great fun
Britain’s inevitably downmarket version of “Tanuki”- “Buster Gonad”.
No, but it certainly looks interesting
It’s a crime noir version of The Count of Monte Cristo, and like a more serious version of a Cohen Brothers film. Oh, and on Cinemax so lots of sex and nudity but oddly non-gratuitous.
Also there’s Amish crime lords.
Also there’s Amish crime lords.
Clop, clop, clop, clop, Bang! Clop, clop, clop, clop.
Amish crime lords.
Band name.
Amish crime lords.
Straight Outta Elkhart
Buggies in the Hood
One Upon a Time in a Cowpasture
The Pennsylvania Connection
Rural Caesar
Goodfarmers
😄😄😄
A Fistfull of Wheat Stalks
Martha Ladly (of Muffin fame) also played keyboard on the Associates excellent single Party Fears 2.
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Martha Ladly (of Muffin fame) also played keyboard on the Associates excellent single Party Fears 2.
Also sang back-up vocals on Roxy Music’s Avalon and was in Robert Palmer’s back-up band for a short stint.
Seriously, though, check it out. Along with Justified and The Americans it’s consistently solid. Fifteen seasons worth of entertainment to get you through lockdown.
Also Justified has Nick Searcy in it.