I missed its official birthday Friday, but in the best hobbit tradition it looks like the Hubble sent us the birthday card…
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Also, the following cartoon is probably only funny if you’ve been coupled up for a while, but I found it hilarious:
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Write your own jokes about skimping on astronomical tools. Extra points for working in the name of your least favorite Republican.
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Fencedude
This is completely unrelated, but I haven’t seen anyone say this regarding the recent events in Arizona:
“This is great news for the New Mexico tourist industry!”
MikeJ
In other news of the southwest:
http://www.rgj.com/article/20100423/NEWS/4230402/1321/news/Chicken-came-home-to-roost-for-GOP-candidate-Lowden
SiubhanDuinne
A cheap Hubble walks into a bar wearing something skimpy. Bartender looks at her and says “This is good news for John McCain.”
Oh. That’s not what you meant?
Honus
Anybody else getting that annoying Ken Cuccinelli popup ad in the middle of the page (“Obama thinks he’s won, but Cucinelli’s just started”) or is that just a treat for us in Virginia?
flukebucket
@SiubhanDuinne:
John McCain says, “That’s no cheap Hubble that’s my wife”
dmsilev
Silly guy-in-cartoon. If he really wanted precision in length measurement, he should have bought a pair of calipers or a micrometer.
Or a laser interferometry setup.
dms
flukebucket
Lobbyists say when purchasing gifts for Mitch McConnell money is no object. Never skimp on an astronomical tool.
chrome agnomen
@Honus:
just a subtle reminder for us virginians not to forget CHM !! we can only hope cuccinelli’s starter is busted.
Bobby Thomson
I think I can see noodly appendages.
Or is it Cthulhu?
Cat Lady
“Hey is that a giant astronomical tool in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
“No, it’s a Boehner”
beltane
@MikeJ: The goat was smart. If you were a goat and you knew they were trying to give you to a goat-f**king Republican, you’d lock yourself up in the truck, too.
Chickens just do as they’re told.
Svensker
I love that cartoon.
redbeardjim
@Svensker: Agreed. That’s a winner.
frankdawg
I love Basic Instructions! Often weird, always funny, it deserves a wider audience.
Here’s one every blogger should read, How To Engage In Hyperbole:
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/3/28/how-to-engage-in-hyperbole.html
r€nato
Someone needs to send a link to Basic Instructions to Bruce Tinsley (the creator of Mallard Fillmore) with the subject line, “THIS is funny. Please study and learn.”
liza
How could he be holding the ruler crooked and getting a measurement that is too short?
Henry Bayer
Webster:
Skimping: Giving insufficient attention to…
Astronomical: …enormously or inconcievably large…
Tool: …one that is used or manipulated by another.
Defines Lieberman to me!
What? Really? He isn’t a Republican? Dang, blew the punchline again.
licensed to kill time
Well, I read the title of this post as ‘Happy 20th, Hubbie!’ and then read the cartoon which was hubbie-ish.
Imagine my surprise when I finally grokked that it was about the telescope. I remember one year when I got a telescope for my birthday, which happened to be exactly what my Spousal Unit had been desiring, quite vocally, for a long time. The cartoon kinda reminds me of that!
Not that I’m complaining. We still laugh about it. And it was fun looking at the moon.
burnspbesq
Dunno, if God wanted us to understand the Universe he would have revealed it all to the Prophets.
/fundie
burnspbesq
I’ve long since learned to smuggle new audio gear and the like into the house under cover of darkness. And if there is any bitching, I just remind her that I pay the mortgage and the HELOC on a house that is her separate property. That tends to be a conversation-stopper.
EnfantTerrible
Apropos the Hubble Telescope, here is a birthday greeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dg2iE2ixeE
Enjoy and be edified!
tenkindsofgrumpy
@liza: People sometimes get punished for paying too close attention, after all no one could have predicted that you would get a longer dimension if you tilt the ruler.