Sunday - February 05, 2012
A familiar meme
Today’s Day By Day cartoon over on the side bar is really great. Pretty subtle (aka like a brick upside the head) but things become clear once you see the bumper stick at the end.
But for all you old guys, or you students of comic strip history, the 2nd panel looks awfully familiar.
Some memes are just too good to let go of. Nice work Muir.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 14, 2012
Stone Age Pussy
Not your everyday house cat. Not even close.
This is a Manul, Otocolobus manul an animal also known as Pallas’s Cat. This cat descended from the proto-small-feline Leopard Cat about 5-10 million years ago and has not changed since. Manuls live in the southern central Siberian area, from a bit south of Lake Baikal into Mongolia, and westward to Tibet and the southern ‘stans; it’s a steppe cat. It’s no bigger than a regular house cat, but this is a wild animal.
Lot’s more pics and info at Wiki and at ArkSpace. And a brief overview here.
“Don’t get them wet, and never, ever feed them after midnight.”
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Permalink • Friday - January 06, 2012
Having Fun With Foreigners
Boldly stolen from Theo’s.
“The vicar’s vital victory was in the victuals” right? Or was it in the visuals? Never can remember.
Here is a complicated bit of doggerel to read out loud. It’s a bit of an extra challenge for us Yanks because we spell things differently. So rise to it and win the day. Pronunciation and Vocabulary Test. You should be able to pronounce and define all but the smallest handful of these words.
I’m a little light on my classic mythology learning, so I missed both Muses. I did not pronounce them properly and I did not know who they were. Heck, if I had to take a guess, I’d say that a terpsichorean ecdysiast was a mutli-theological preacher to turtles.
“fe0ffer” is a typo. They meant to write “feoffer”. Easy to say, but a new word to me, as was paling, even though I’ve known the old expression “beyond the pale” for most of my life. I just never thought that it was an actual, physical thing. “Don’t lose your senses, it’s outside your demesnes”. But feoffer? If the ruler of a caliphate was beneficent and handing out land, and you were the passenger in car stuck in traffic behind his and the road was open and you really wanted to get ahead of him, would you seize the once in a lifetime chance to say to the driver “Please pass the sultan feoffer”? I would, in a New York Second.
Now go find your local EAS member* and have them read this poem aloud. Then try to explain why it’s humorous and yet not derogatory. Good luck with that.
* EAS - English Assassination Society, a term for people not from here who do their best to kill the language through wrong word choice, poor diction, worse spelling, broken meter, and imaginative grammar. The funny thing is, with a small bit of effort you can still understand them. English is quite robust that way. Which helps when someone tells you that he is of laughing in your feces.
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Permalink • Sunday - January 01, 2012
New Year’s Day Demotivators!
It has been sometime since we had a demotivator post. Allow me to be the first in 2012.
Has to be very close to my all-time favorite movie. Shame that’s not an actual quote.
Should be two of your New Year’s Resolutions: Take your meds! And eat more bacon!
(I might put in to quit playing with your food.)
Samwise, is this the the 12 foot spider you were looking for?
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Permalink • Saturday - December 31, 2011
Here Kitty Kitty
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Permalink • Friday - December 30, 2011
For any George MacDonald Fraser fans
I present the the second book of his Flashman series. Royal Flash. In toto.
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 21, 2011
GOP Victory?
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Permalink • Well, I was hoping…?
Just checked out an old 90’s favorite show, Tim Allen’s ‘Home Improvement’. What I really love about the show is that he can make serious problems seem so insignificant and humorous. Take this scene from the pilot episode:
Just a rhetorical question: do women come in two speeds? Reversible? If so, where can I get one? 
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Permalink • Tuesday - December 13, 2011
For your dancing pleasure
I’ve not been posting lately. Just another bout of bad health. I seem to have gotten over it, though my doctor will tell me for sure later this morning.
I’m posting this video of Barbara and Tim Haller. They were my bosses when I worked for the Dayton Arthur Murray Studio. They taught me how to dance, and I taught my wife how to dance. (wife was one of my first students) Enjoy!
Looks like they are at the Manchester Inn in Middleton. Again. I’ve performed there several times with my students.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 01, 2011
Well this is embarrassing!
I always wondered why the wolf was in Grandma’s house!
It’s bad enough that I find stuff like this. Think of the sick people who make it!
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Permalink • the world’s longest model train on 39,000ft of tracks over a quarter an acre
This is not only incredible, it’s an awesome undertaking. I love this kind of thing. Would love to go there. Darn, it’s only across the channel from us.
The article comes from THE DAILY MAIL
View full screen. Impressive! But you knew that already.
Take a ride with the world’s longest model train on 39,000ft of tracks over a quarter an acre that took 500,000 hours to build
(and it’s growing)By EMMA REYNOLDS
Last updated at 1:30 AM on 1st December 2011Welcome to the world’s largest model railroad, in which the whole of human life is faithfully recreated in miniature.
The Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg boasts more than 39,000 feet of tracks, on which 890 trains travel across a quarter of an acre of land.
And there is much more to the intricate creation than railway lines, with carefully crafted party-goers, lovers and mourners at a funeral making their way around the tiny planet.
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Permalink • Friday - November 18, 2011
A BRDWAY MUSICAL FOR BMEWS COURTESY OF RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
Littlejohn is one of our very favorites. Consistently brilliant but he’s outdone even himself with this one.
It’s brought about in large measure due to the financial mess in Europe and Germany’s role in things.
It does get a bit complicated and the post above will explain some of it.
Springtime for Merkel, starring in no particular order...
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
The crisis in the Eurozone goes from bad to worse, with two democratically-elected national leaders deposed already on the orders of the shadowy, federalist Frankfurt Group. Other countries teeter on the brink of financial and political turmoil.
Greek newspapers are depicting Chancellor Angela Merkel as Adolf Hitler, after she warned menacingly that unless the whole of Europe takes orders from Germany, the peace which has been maintained since the end of World War II cannot be guaranteed.
This seems like a good time to revive Mel Brooks’ masterpiece, The Producers.
In the movie, theatrical impresario Max Bialystock and his accountant Leopold Bloom set out to stage a musical, Springtime For Hitler, which will be a sure-fire flop. That way, Max can defraud his investors and make a fortune.
The euro, on the other hand, was designed to be a sure-fire success and has ended up defrauding an entire Continent.
(Overture and beginners)
The Eurozone is having trouble, what a sad, sad story,
Europe needs a leader to restore its former glory,
Where, oh where, is she?
Right here, in Germany.
She’s the one we need right now,
The original Iron Frau.
And so it’s . . .
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
Meltdown for Ireland and Greece,
We’re marching forward to bankruptcy,
Watching the death of democracy . . .
Showtime for President Sarkozy,
The markets are downgrading France,
Bang goes the doomed single currency,
Come on Germans, go into your dance.
In East Berlin, the volk are hurtin’
Should have stayed behind the Iron Curtain.
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty
Forget the Bunga Bunga Party.
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
Riots in Lisbon and Spain,
Berlusconi is toppled in Italy,
And Deutschland is rising again . . .
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
Bail-outs for Europe’s bust banks,
Billions of euros gone down the drain,
Come on Germans, start revving your tanks.
Listen to Angela’s sermon
All of Europe’s speaking German.
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
Doomsday for Athens and Rome,
You don’t want to make us your enemy,
We’re creating a brand new hegemony . . .
Crunch time for Britain and Cameron,
Protests on the steps of St Paul’s,
The Tories want out of the Union,
But Cleggy’s got Dave by the . . .
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
Panic on Wall Street and the DAX,
The Bundesbank’s final solution is,
Make the City of London pay tax.
Come on Mervyn, be a honey,
Give us all the City’s money.
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
We’re building a new Fourth Reich,
This shouldn’t come as a mystery,
Not if you study your history . . .
(Grand finale)
And so it’s . . .
Springtime for Merkel and Germany,
The euro is dead on the floor,
Frankfurt is dictating policy,
And soon we’ll be going,
Yes, we are going,
It looks like we’re going to war!
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Permalink • Saturday - November 12, 2011
When Needs Must
Just a quick pic from my vacation I thought was funny. On the outer island of Great Guana Cay in Abaco, there are pretty much no cars. What powered transportation there is, is by golf cart or by ATV. There are only one or two roads anyway; the island is just a couple miles long and probably not even a quarter mile wide. Perhaps 150 people actually live there. Next to the one grocery store is the one church, Seaside Gospel, very quaint and well kept, and very small. But the island is quite pretty, and people go there for vacation, and probably a good number of them choose to get married there. That explains this, which I saw on a rather well used golf cart parked down by the main wharf. Gotta have some kind of limo for the newlyweds, right? Even if it only goes 300 yards from the church to the docks.
after this one, I promise, no more vacation pictures. promise!
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Permalink • Sunday - October 30, 2011
I couldn’t resist.
Here’s Captain Kirk getting a piece of the action. Posted below the fold because, well, when I said ‘piece of the action,’ I meant it.
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