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Strange goings-on at number 40. || New fashion frontier. || They make more noise than I expected. || An archive of Amazing Stories, 1926-2005. || Third keeper of the TARDIS. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Now do the ceiling. || Incoming. || Not eggs. || How to announce your lack of worth. || “World famous dinosaur poop museum and gift shop.” And yes, they do have fossilised T. rex faeces. || A dog, a cat, and a mouse. || Think good thoughts. || Glamorous assistant. || Beermats and bonding. || Generate polyhedra. || The progressive retail experience, parts 561, 562, 563, 564, and 565. || Reefer buzz. || Suboptimal situation. || A Thomas Sowell playlist. || Today’s word is steep. || A brief history of urology, from 3,200 BC to the present day. || And a small but bothersome detail.
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OK… I’m making crickets chirp again…being the only Florida boy in a discussion today I was met with blank stares on this. I looked it up and saw other, kinda similar versions but nobody here knew anything about this. Something we used to sing in the school yard…
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school,
We have locked up every teacher, we have broken every rule!
We’re gonna lynch the principal tomorrow after school
Why don’t we do it now? (Get the rope!)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Teacher hit me with a ruler,
Hit her in the butt with a rotten coconut, (NYC kid version: Met her at the door with a loaded .44)
And she ain’t my teacher no more!
Cheap cruise lines have their drawbacks.
Cheap cruise lines have their drawbacks.
Love the comment: “Waffle House of the sea.”
I had two cats — TWO — young and healthy, and still a mouse thrived in my house until I had to set a mousetrap to get it.
Oh, we sang that song too, in the intermountain west.
You read my mind.
“Cheeeldren of the night“
Reminiscent of my last trip to France with my late father, coming back along the D940 with lots of ‘asylum seekers’ gathering to see if they could secrete themselves in lorries for the trip across the channel, luckily they didn’t try that tactic back then,
Would watch. It’d be better than the crap they’ve been doing.
Morning, all.
It did seem to be the obvious question.
I’ll just leave that there, shall I?
Well done lads
Probably couldn’t do it, but going down would be harder.
I learned something today.
For the present that says how much I love you.
I’ve always said this place is educational. A nourishing cultural resource.
I should get some kind of grant.
Seems an awful lot of effort just to ruin your own holiday. Though I’m guessing the participants didn’t think that far ahead.
But ‘white flight’ is a bad thing…
The progressive retail experience
People need to stop asking “when is the street justice going to start?”
Never. The answer is never, because anyone who interdicts these thugs will have the full weight of the police and the DA’s office brought to bear on them pour encourager les autres. And they know this.
You will never see street justice, because the populace has to riot against the police and the civic authorities first. And once that happens, a little shoplifting is the least of anyone’s concerns.
If you live in an American city, the Scott Adams Doctrine is really your only option.
Jumping on other people’s cars does seem to be a thing among the worthless. A sort of triumphant destruction.
On X, in reply to one of many such scenes, I saw some tool saying, “It’s just a car.”
As if it weren’t the second most expensive purchase a person is likely to have made. A thing for which they’ve worked and saved for some time. As if destroying someone’s car – because, hey, you can – weren’t robbing the victim of a significant chunk of their efforts, the fruits of a finite life.
Margaret Rutherford would have been way better than Jodi Whittaker.
The prospect is not without possibilities. And if you’re going to make the Doctor regenerate as a woman, it seems a good idea to make him an interesting woman.
A documentary about the strange life of Margaret Rutherford can be found here.
Not unfair.
I know it’s just one screw but I’d be wondering what else they’d missed.
Hey, it’s what university professors do.
Automatic weapons fire would solve that problem very quickly.
Automatic weapons fire would solve that problem very quickly.
“An armed society is a polite society.” — Robert Heinlein
That would also help those progressive retail experiences.
And from the comments, a highly useful girlfriend translator.
BTW, a happy belated Independence Day to all. I spent last night in my bedroom with several fans running to muffle the noises outside whilst a 95-lb Weimaraner cowered beneath my bed. This morning Bronx is much better and happy that the boom-booms went away.
And to amuse myself, I took a shot I did of the guy who plays my Santa Claus and made this as a patriotic gesture. As the Hessians learned, he SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING.
A plausible band name.
I liked the scene in one of Heinlein’s later novels in which a retail businessman and wife shoot (and then finish off with “mercy” shots) a gang of armed robbers. Per local custom and ordinance, they are awarded honors from the town government and the robbers’ heads are displayed on spikes.
Especially the female ones.
No thinking needed, because it’s just part of their culture.
Thanks, barkeep.
I’m not sure she actually died, you know. I think she may have regenerated into Ian McKellen.
Imagine being scolded by this bobble-headed misfit.
Autotune not needed.
Are today’s words invasive species…?
Legal Insurrection is an extremely useful “information resource”: They have done yeoman’s work documenting in detail various issues, from the Trayvon Martin case to the Oberlin College/Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit.
Ze is right tho. Zim and zam’s zimmy zits need to the f out of our country.
And then she defends the poor veterans for having to be triggered by fireworks, when everyone knows vets are tools of the Hegemon to impose further oppression on Teh Other.
Also, the septum ring.
Has anyone ever encountered such a ring in a sane person? And why do people even wear them? They’re so unflattering!
I love fireworks. They sound like commies and islamofascists being blown to atoms.
It’s symbolic of how commie propagandists lead her around by the nose.
[ Gathers sandbags and canned goods for next five years of national degeneration. ]
[ Starts hoarding candles. ]
[ Hides money in shoe. ]
“I’m just going to leave this here”
“Think good thoughts” hahaha an actual dickhead.
Chicken: shows that the genetic code for egg care is only as detailed as necessary for the general case.
Mouse: my cat brought mice in to show us but didn’t finish them off. A bloody (not in the English sense) bird, also.
ccscientist, pass me your shoe.
[ Hides £20 in ccscientist’s shoe. ]
[ Buries shoe in back garden. ]
At the link, they ask “What’s the solution to this?”
AR-15 and multiple 30-round magazines. That’s the solution. From my perspective, I see an attempted carjacking. Defending my life warranted.