Each of us was put here for a reason, and for some of us that reason is to serve as a bad example.
Yes, Nanny Ogg is my literary role model, however did you guess?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.
Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.
You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.
The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.
The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.
Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”
BruceFromOhio
“Sometimes the purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others.” One of a favored series of demotivational posters, shows the bow of a freighter sticking up out of the ocean.
“Hard work often pays off in the long run, but laziness pays off now.”
Luthe
But do you know interesting songs about custard?
Teri
And I named my son Eric as a tribute to the great Pratchett. I am sorry I missed the book stuff last night, you guys were awesome. I look forward to next Sunday.
Egypt Steve
Yeah, Simon and Garfunkle have misled a lot of people over the years … thank god some are still on the right road!
Reminds me of a time in high school when a bunch of drama students were sitting around at lunch with a guitar singing “The Boxer” (it was the ’70s …). Whenever they got to the “lailailai” bit, we band students would slam the steel door of the fire exit. For some reason, that pissed them off. People can get so serious …
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
And the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
Xecky Gilchrist
for some of us that reason is to serve as a bad example.
This makes me think of the concept of “wrang-wrang” in Vonnegut’s brilliant Cat’s Cradle.
4jkb4ia
Tom Friedman actually gets to do reporting today and digs up an acorn for once.
ed drone
@Luthe:
I SING OF DEAD BUNNIES
-Anonymous
tunes: “Sweet Betsy From Pike”
OR “My Favorite Things” (though the scan sucks somewhat)
I sing of dead bunnies, and burnt baby chicks
Barbecued squirrels, and hamsters on sticks
Ducklings in blenders, and frogs off the road
Opossums on fenders and deep french-fried toad!
Sliced and diced sparrows, dead dogs on the lawn
Cats riddled with arrows, and disemboweled faun
Pickled canaries, and clubbed baby seals
Mice served in berries, and turtles ‘neath wheels
Minced baby earwigs, koala fillet
Rat Pie with custard, and cockroach puree
Fred’s little brother, and Mystery Beast:
These are the things that they served at the Feast!
Source:
http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2869
Ed
4jkb4ia
I am actually enough of a grownup that I listened to that whole thing and laughed twice. Otherwise the desecration of the original would have been too painful.
(Refuses to listen to “Eat It” to this day)
4jkb4ia
@ed drone:
Not a filk song!
JGabriel
Anne Laurie:
Odd coincidence: I just read The Wyrd Sisters yesterday, literally.
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Giant Rat of Sumatra
Dudes look like leprechauns on steroids.
Jeanne ringland
I love this.
Just finished re-reading Maskerade last night.
I’m going to NADWCON in Wisconsin and I’m doing research on Casanunda and Nanny Ogg, for costuming purposes.
Nancy
No wonder I like you. Sir Terry is my favorite and I love Nanny Ogg and Magrat and especially Tiffany Aching. I also like Vimes.
Nancy
No wonder I like you. Sir Terry is my favorite and I love Nanny Ogg and Magrat and especially Tiffany Aching. I also like Vimes.