Friday Ephemera (758)
The machine uprising, day 9. Previously. || Incoming. || In a choice of colours. || Lively scenes. || Pineapple sea cucumber. || The quiet part. || Snow clearing of note. || Neighbours of note. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Modernity, baby. || She doesn’t want to give birth to any little Nazis, you see. || Take Me Out to the Ball Game. || I’m just going to leave this here, I think. || Venting stag. || Honey surplus. || The progressive retail experience, parts 614, 615, 616, and 617. || Dana is polyamorous. || The Life of the Private Eye, 1966. || The thrill of osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis, or tooth-in-eye surgery. || For likes. || Eight feet. || What fetish? || Mr Magee fell four miles without a parachute. || Space-saving innovation. || Safety first. || Here, have some faeces. || And finally, fun times for the weekend.
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And from the art world . . .
Knock-on effects.
Those heels aren’t long for this world.
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
Cue Spinal Tap.
|| Take Me Out to the Ball Game. ||
Thank you for that.
My co-advisor in grad school brought one of those instruments over from China with his family. He had all of us students in his group over for Thanksgiving one year, and his oldest daughter played us a beautiful tune on it.
Some of the people who appreciated American traditions and freedoms the most were my older Chinese engineering profs who had gotten their PhDs here in the US and then settled down to teach, buying homes, having more kids that the one allowed back in China. I guess they were old enough to remember the “before” times.
Did the U.K. government keep all the E.U. impositions as revenge on the proles who voted for Brexit? You would think the ECHR should have as much weight in British affairs as a pineapple sea cucumber.
Big, squeezable bottoms.
But strangely intrigued…
Such vindication, though rare, is worth the pain and suffering to get there.
It’s not rare if you’ve an old house.
Bear feeding: they are just giant dogs. It is amazing really how tame they can become given that in the wild they are pretty solitary. The Polish army (WWI?) had a bear raised from a cub that would bring artillery shells to the guns.
Snow clearing: no amount of money could induce me to do that.
Toe shoes: only 4 toes?
[ Checks stability of toilet again, just in case. ]
I believe the term is learning curve.
Baby Nazis: this woman does not seem to understand how babies work. They aren’t born with a little hitler mustache or a party affiliation. Does she think all boy babies are nazis by definition?
If any of you saw the vids of female members of congress acting as super heroes and the dance to defeat trump…are they lobbying to repeal the vote for women? Because clown world.
Human nature is rather violent. In the past, it was not uncommon for the victors in battle to kill all the men in a territory and enslave the rest. Genocide happened rather often. Civilization depends on suppressing this violent urge. The Left seems determined to unleash it.
Given that she’s very likely a Cluster B nightmare, any boy she raised would become one, yes.
She’s performed a great act of public service.
A moment of silence, please.
11 years hardware: when a 30 yr old cabinet hinge busted, I went to hardware store with it. No they don’t sell it but guy said try cabinet factory down the road. Went there and guy said no don’t make it any more…but wait! He opened a drawer and pulled out a baggie full of them and tossed it to me. hahaha yes!
Space-saving: right, stink up your office. A toilet fixed in place is likely enough to leak but one on hinges?
Mr Magee fell 2 miles–first read it as Mr Magoo (for those old enough to remember)
Chuckles don’t count, right?
It’s mostly all input/output.
scientist: ‘The Polish army (WWI?) had a bear raised from a cub that would bring artillery shells to the guns.’
Aah, Wojtek, I always make a point of rubbing his statue’s snout for luck when I go to Edinburgh…
Isn’t it about time we had another adorable doggo?
Just sayin’.
She would make love to them.
This is Peanut.
Believing the strangest things, loving the alien
Not quite the science-fiction blockbuster I was hoping for.
“You want to make a bit of money? You should do what I did…”
[ Makes note to re-watch Communion. ]
That’s one way to make sure they never come back.
I should add that I saw it decades ago and can’t recall much about it, beyond the masks, the probing, and an air of strangeness. Oh, and the peekaboo from behind the wardrobe. I doubt I’d file it under great cinema, but the memory of the oddness has lingered.
Most people do not advertise their their psychological problems.
Chinese zither. My #3 sis-in-law plays that. Mostly traditional. My mother in law made each daughter learn a skill. #2 is a hair stylist, #3 zither and piano, and I forget what 1, 4, and 5 were trained in. There’s a son in there, too.
If it weren’t for people advertising their psychological problems there wouldn’t be any social media.
Voiced by Jim Backus who also played Thurston Howell III on Gilligan’s Island.
And no Thompson Blog.
Band name: Gay Alien Chastity Belt.
oh, like I was the only one thinking that…gmab…
Nah, not after I deleted my comment about it.
I think a clever thing would be for Trump to offer air fare to any illegals who want to go home. Can’t come back.
“The theater kids no longer control the federal government and they’re not happy about it.“
Where’s Blutarsky when you need him?
Southpark comes to mind.
William Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection blog notices a pattern.
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party…”
–Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Exactly.
4 out of 5 doctors at Harvard cannot answer a question from introductory statistics.
This correlates with what I’ve read over the years about major flubs in scientific research, including medical research. And I was warned about this in a freshman physics class.
“One of my all-time favorites a very fourth wall moment for a child”
I seem to recall them sending James Taylor to France to sing “You’ve Got a Friend” after the Charlie Hebdo incident and 17 deaths.
Has Madonna ever been right about anything?
One of John F***ing Kerry’s finest moments.
Still wonder who Taylor was singing to.
I was disappointed to see that Collins had gone over to the dark side with Fauci. He was a Christian who headed up the human genome project, and he wrote about DNA being “The Language of God.”
And now we see he’s been involved with some pretty awful shenanigans regarding suppression of dissent during COVID and other sketchy things.
People truly suck.
It must be a sideways manifestation of the maternal protective instinct. They see Palestinians as the woobies in need of protection from the evil predator Jews, so they become like mama bears protecting cubs.
A poll ensues.