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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Warning: Fake Eclipse Glasses Aren’t The Only Hazard Out There

Warning: Fake Eclipse Glasses Aren’t The Only Hazard Out There

by TaMara|  August 15, 201711:45 pm| 127 Comments

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Just a little something to lighten the mood.

And if we’re being honest, I literally wore the grooves out of this 45 (that’s how we played music in the dark ages, young’uns) and probably also my mom’s last nerve playing this one summer:

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  1. 1.

    james parente

    August 15, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    Thanks! I needed a chuckle, very badly.

  2. 2.

    aimai

    August 15, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    I agree with james parente. This was very much needed, tonight.

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 15, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    David Crosby says fellow rocker Ted Nugent has been kept out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because he’s not good enough, not because of his politics.
    Crosby responded to a fan’s question about whether political correctness kept Nugent out of the Hall by saying Monday on Twitter that Nugent “just isn’t good enough.” He also used an expletive to describe Nugent.
    Nugent told Albany, New York, radio station WQBK-FM last week he hasn’t been inducted into the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of his support for gun rights and his membership on the National Rifle Association’s board of directors. The outspoken Nugent was a fierce critic of former President Barack Obama’s gun control efforts and said at a 2012 NRA gathering that he’d be dead or in jail if Obama was re-elected.
    Crosby has been inducted into the Hall twice for his membership in The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
    Nugent’s biggest hit is “Cat Scratch Fever,” which peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard chart in 1977.

  4. 4.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    August 15, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    Not an obligatory musical link, but very fitting.

    As is Axelrod’s “Overture.”

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 15, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    Has to happen.

  6. 6.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 15, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    I figure since I have nothing much to add to the day’s events that other FP haven’t already addressed, I’ll try for comic and/or inspirational relief during the Dolt45 reign.

  7. 7.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:00 am

    I loved that song. I just watched that Vice video about this weekend. Ugh. Then Colbert who trashed drumph. My wife has been updating me on the son of her friend who was outed on FB for being in Charlottesville. Quite the Tuesday.

  8. 8.

    Rex

    August 16, 2017 at 12:00 am

    Obligatory Total Eclipse of the Heart literal version.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 16, 2017 at 12:00 am

    the squirrel with the child’s face is my favorite

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 12:00 am

    Part of the fun of jukeboxes was watching them select and cue up 45s.

  11. 11.

    Suzanne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:01 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: That is hilarious. I can think of at least 500 musical artists who belong the the Hall of Fame before that fuckin’ clown.

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:04 am

    “Da-Doo”

    “But the old Chinese man sold it to me anyway. For a dollar ninety-five.”

    Sharp-eyed viewers may recognize Tisha Campbell as part of the Greek chorus, which appears throughout the film.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 12:04 am

    8 Best Solar Eclipse Music Festivals

    Kudos to the wag who came up with “Moonstock.”

  14. 14.

    Suzanne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:06 am

    How do I put a photo in a comment, from an iPad? Someone did the most hilarious thing to the Confederate soldiers memorial here in AZ and I want to share.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:06 am

    @Suzanne:

    Bo Derek seems to be utterly convinced that she can’t get work in Hollywood because she’s a conservative, and not because she spent her whole career sleepwalking through her husband’s shitty soft-core porn movies.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Suzanne

    Only front pagers have the ability to do that.

    Upload the photo to someplace on the web and then link to it.

    One choice, which I occasionally use, is Thumbsnap.

  17. 17.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 12:12 am

    @Suzanne: If there aren’t link buttons, you could just copy in the url. Or you could email it to me ([email protected]) and I could front-page it…

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 16, 2017 at 12:13 am

    @Suzanne: I found out from that Croz twitter feed that Warren Zevon is not in the Hall of Fame. I suspect Mr Zevon might actually care less about that if he were still alive than he does now, but… Wow.

    @Mnemosyne: Kelsey Grammer whined about how hard it is to be a conservative in Hollywood, but nobody could hear him because of the reveres alarms of the dump trucks backing up to his house with the money NBC was then paying him to wring a few more seasons out of the worn out Frazier. He’s an asshole, but he is incredibly talented.

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:15 am

    @Anne Laurie: Okay, I just sent it to you. It’s freaking hilarious.

  20. 20.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 16, 2017 at 12:15 am

    @Suzanne: the Confederate soldiers memorial here in AZ

    just that phrase confuses me a little

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 16, 2017 at 12:16 am

    @Mnemosyne: Braided hair, bouncy, bouncy, is not acting. However titillating it may be.

  22. 22.

    Mike in NC

    August 16, 2017 at 12:17 am

    We’re blowing off the eclipse thing entirely because even though we live near a planetarium, all stores in town have run out of the special glasses.

  23. 23.

    Mike in NC

    August 16, 2017 at 12:18 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Kelsey Grammer, longtime cokehead

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:19 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, no shit. But yes, there is a memorial for them in front of the Capitol at Wesley Bolin Plaza, which is where all the prominent memorials are located. (Including a USS Arizona memorial, which makes more sense.)

  25. 25.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 12:20 am

    @Rex: Darn, I was gonna post that. One of my favorite Internet Things.

    ETA: In case one of y’all hasn’t seen it, it’s the Total Eclipse music video re-dubbed with lyrics narrating what’s actually in the video

    ETAA: I whip my head to the right!

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 12:22 am

    @Mike in NC

    Can always resort to the finger grid projection method as outlined on this page by the American Astronomical Society.

  27. 27.

    Jerzy Russian

    August 16, 2017 at 12:22 am

    @Mike in NC:

    We’re blowing off the eclipse thing entirely because even though we live near a planetarium, all stores in town have run out of the special glasses.

    Can you find welder’s glass somewhere? Also, if you have a small telescope or binoculars, you can project the Sun’s image onto a piece of paper and that image would be safe to view.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 12:24 am

    Was unaware of the USPS offering for the eclipse.

    Tres cool.

  29. 29.

    khead

    August 16, 2017 at 12:24 am

    So, is it worth it to try and cut up a few shoe boxes so my wife and I can “watch” the damn thing?

  30. 30.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 12:24 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I enjoyed him on 30 Rock.

    @Jerzy Russian: I have three, come visit!

  31. 31.

    Peale

    August 16, 2017 at 12:26 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: which is why he’s only been cast as the lead in five TV series since Frasier. So hard. No one is greenlighting his projects.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 16, 2017 at 12:29 am

    @Major Major Major Major: that’s one of the things I was thinking of

    @Peale: I watched a few episodes of Boss, I thought it might’ve worked if set in some vague, unnamed big city in some vague, unspecified post-war era, didn’t work set in the 21st century. But he made a good villain.

  33. 33.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 16, 2017 at 12:31 am

    @NotMax: If you’ve been lucky enough to get a card or letter from me the past month, those are the stamps I’m using.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 12:31 am

    @Suzanne: @NotMax: And even frontpagers can only embed a picture in a comment if it is in a tweet.

  35. 35.

    Mike in NC

    August 16, 2017 at 12:34 am

    @NotMax: @Jerzy Russian: Thanks for the tips. Gotta check local cloud cover for the 21st.

  36. 36.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 16, 2017 at 12:34 am

    How animal behavior may change when the total solar eclipse darkens skies: https://t.co/CjqN2GIo1X pic.twitter.com/NYY6NSfPOa

    — Good Morning America (@GMA) August 16, 2017

  37. 37.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 12:34 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Got ya on a pretty tight leash there, probably a good idea.

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 12:34 am

    @Mike in NC:

    We’re blowing off the eclipse thing entirely because even though we live near a planetarium, all stores in town have run out of the special glasses.

    I ordered some online, but for some reason two separate FedEx delivery drivers have decided to play silly buggers with dropping off the package. Guys, if I sign the thing on your door tag that says “I agree to let you drop off the package even if I’m not here to get it first-hand”, that means you can drop off the package even if I’m not here. It doesn’t mean leave another door tag thing saying “He wasn’t here. Oh well”. Sigh.

    At least the sun filter for my camera did get delivered (18 stops! That’s a lot of attenuation). Worst case, I’ll just look through the viewfinder (DSLR, so filtering the main lens will protect the viewfinder as well). It’s only going to be ~62% here, but that’s ok.

  39. 39.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 12:36 am

    Via Suzanne, in Arizona:

    This happened today. Whomever did it is funny and I have offered to buy whoever did it a spendy bougie craft cocktail.

    (Let me know if the image didn’t appear, okay?)

  40. 40.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 12:36 am

    Today I learned about The Phenomenon of ‘Crown Shyness’, Where Trees Avoid Touching.

  41. 41.

    Balconesfault

    August 16, 2017 at 12:36 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Facebook page

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 12:37 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I think the decision was that if we had a function to allow pictures/images to be placed in comments we’d have a serious troll problem. So a decision was made, sometime before I arrived here, that that function wouldn’t be allowed for anyone. I mean remember how quickly things went south when the front pagers’ comments were in different colors from everyone else.

  43. 43.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 16, 2017 at 12:38 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I swear we used to be able to post photos….

  44. 44.

    Roger Moore

    August 16, 2017 at 12:38 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    They really are a bunch of snowflakes, aren’t they.

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 12:39 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: And, of course, AL makes a liar out of me.

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 12:39 am

    @TaMara (HFG): Apparently AL still can.

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 12:40 am

    @Anne Laurie: Image looks good here.

  48. 48.

    Suzanne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:41 am

    @Anne Laurie: Looks awesome.

    The decorator has been identified. Funny AF. Craftivism FTW.

  49. 49.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 16, 2017 at 12:41 am

  50. 50.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 16, 2017 at 12:42 am

    @TaMara (HFG): Oh, look, I remembered how to do it!

    ETA: The photo is of Nebraska by LaVerne James, from my FB feed

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 12:43 am

    @Mike in NC:

    We’re blowing off the eclipse thing entirely because even though we live near a planetarium, all stores in town have run out of the special glasses.

    You may want to go to the planetarium anyway — even if they’ve run out of glasses, quite possibly some of the other visitors may bring extras.

    (The Spousal Unit ended up ordering a box of ten, supposedly to be delivered tomorrow, because that was the smallest package he could find on Amazon. Even though we’re only getting about 63% totality, he figures he’ll be the most popular fella in the office come Monday… )

  52. 52.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 12:43 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I mean remember how quickly things went south when the front pagers’ comments were in different colors from everyone else.

    Cole’s still are, but it’s his house.

  53. 53.

    Mike J

    August 16, 2017 at 12:44 am

    @khead:

    So, is it worth it to try and cut up a few shoe boxes so my wife and I can “watch” the damn thing?

    I’ve only seen a ~40%, but it was very cool. Of course, I’m a geek so stuff like that is interesting to me.

  54. 54.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 12:45 am

    @TaMara (HFG): Now you’re just showing off….

  55. 55.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 12:45 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m just glad the ‘sarcasm font’ never caught on.

  56. 56.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 12:45 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I opened up a fake “Add New Post” on the dashboad, and made Suzanne’s image an ’embed’ on the Add New Media thingie.

    Tamara’s probably got a simpler method, but I live by the motto Posted is better than perfect.

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 16, 2017 at 12:47 am

    @TaMara (HFG): it’s beautiful, makes me think of O Pioneers now that I know it’s Nebraska

  58. 58.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 12:47 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: We don’t talk about that.

  59. 59.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 12:48 am

    @Major Major Major Major: We so need a snark font.

  60. 60.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 12:50 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Comic Sans?

  61. 61.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 12:51 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Yet another voice silenced by Big Cole.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 12:53 am

    Anyone who has watched Republic of Doyle?

    Comes *this close* to working but something about it just doesn’t quite gel.

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    August 16, 2017 at 12:53 am

    I bought eclipse glasses for my office two weeks ago. HAHAHAHHAHAAAA SUCKERS I WIN!!!

    We’re also going to put the NASA live feed of the total eclipse on the big monitor in the conference room and get chocolate-glazed “eclipse” donuts from Krispy Kreme. If the line isn’t too crazy.

  64. 64.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 12:54 am

    @Mnemosyne: I’m planning on heading up above the old zoo and take pics.

  65. 65.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 16, 2017 at 12:55 am

    @NotMax: Agreed

  66. 66.

    Roger Moore

    August 16, 2017 at 12:55 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    We so need a snark font.

    We need a non-snark font.

  67. 67.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 12:56 am

    @Mnemosyne: There are two large buildings filled (over-filled, really) with professional astronomers just a few hundred feet from my office. We’re prepared.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 12:58 am

    @Roger Moore: Wouldn’t ever get used.

  69. 69.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 12:58 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Invisible ink, then.

  70. 70.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 12:59 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: We do not need more fonts. Modernity has too many fonts.

    ETA: p.s. i am not a crank

  71. 71.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:00 am

    @Roger Moore: Was that snark?

  72. 72.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 1:00 am

    @TaMara (HFG)

    I think it’s that the cast seems to be acting at each other rather than with each other. There’s a void in the camaraderie department.

    Still, it ran for 6 seasons so hoping it improves.

  73. 73.

    lurker dean

    August 16, 2017 at 1:00 am

    @dmsilev: I had been ignoring the eclipse but for some reason it just dawned on me that it’s probably something I should try to see/photograph. Dug around my junk and luckily found my 2 really dark nd filters, a 10 stop and a 9, which can stack. I’ve never photographed an eclipse but the common wisdom seems to be not to use the viewfinder and stick to liveview if the cam has it, even with nd filters. Can’t seem to find any solar glasses online, hopefully I can find some at a local store. Gotta practice taking some sun shots this weekend..

  74. 74.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:02 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Modernity has too many fonts.

    Wasn’t that part of the Unibomber’s manifesto?

  75. 75.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 1:06 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Who knows. All I knows is, I’m a web developer, and trust me, there are too many damn fonts.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    August 16, 2017 at 1:07 am

    @dmsilev:

    If you have any extra eclipse glasses, please give them to Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch. They severely under-ordered for the demand.

  77. 77.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    August 16, 2017 at 1:14 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Since Nazis seem (unfortunately) to be the topic this week, Here’s a cool video on the history of the Futura Font.
    The font that escaped the Nazis

  78. 78.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 1:15 am

    @dmsilev: Godsdammit, I like Comic Sans!

    (And, yes, I am lysdexic… )

  79. 79.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 1:18 am

    @Mnemosyne: Good thought, thanks. The box I have on order is ten, and I should get it tomorrow if FedEx doesn’t play any more games with me. I have a bunch of minions to properly equip, but donating the leftovers is a great idea.

  80. 80.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 1:18 am

    @Major Major Major Major

    back in the 70s, met a middle-aged gentleman who showed up as a guest to a party at the apartment who was a self-proclaimed expert in typography and told me he could identify any font.

    Dug through the eclectic stuff drawer and pulled out a printed business card from the 1880s to show him.

    Not only couldn’t he identify the font, he swore up and down he had never seen anything even close to it.

  81. 81.

    cs

    August 16, 2017 at 1:20 am

    I’m male and gen x. I remember “Total Eclipse of the Heart” from when it was on heavy rotation on MTV. I personally didn’t like it at all. However, going through life, I’ve discovered almost every single woman of my generation, that I’ve personally met, loves this song. I’ve met very few men who did.

    This is a mystery to me. Not about the love of the song. Music is subjective and I’ve got no problem with people who have different tastes than mine. What puzzles me is the gender divide on it, and sometimes the sexuality divide. Most men I knew who loved it are gay. I have no idea why this song doesn’t seem to work on straight men, but seems to work for everyone else.

  82. 82.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    August 16, 2017 at 1:21 am

    Ack! tried to fix a double reference, and the attempt at fixing it sent me to the spam bucket…. see if you can fish it out, it’s an interesting link on the history of the Futura font.

  83. 83.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:21 am

    @NotMax: Why doesn’t it surprise me that you have an eclectic stuff drawer.

  84. 84.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:22 am

    @Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: Oh, that’s what happened. I looked at the video, refreshed and the comment had vanished!

  85. 85.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 1:23 am

    I see Tucker has gone full tin foil:

    Fox News just now pic.twitter.com/kChT5oitV2

    — Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 16, 2017

  86. 86.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:24 am

    Now, two of my comments have vanished.

    ETA: And, they’re back.

  87. 87.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 1:26 am

    @Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: I freed it.

  88. 88.

    Yarrow

    August 16, 2017 at 1:27 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Wait…he actually has a segment called “Tucker’s Thoughts”? That’s a real thing?

  89. 89.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 1:27 am

    @Adam L Silverman: “Plato, Muhammed, Aztecs all owned slaves”? I guess the first question would be “and your point is what?”.

  90. 90.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    August 16, 2017 at 1:28 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Thanks!

  91. 91.

    dmsilev

    August 16, 2017 at 1:28 am

    @Yarrow: It’s a very short segment, and is most typically just line noise or a test pattern.

  92. 92.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:28 am

    @Yarrow: It’s a very, very short segment.

  93. 93.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    August 16, 2017 at 1:29 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I’ve seen AI chat-bots that make more sense than that screen shot.

  94. 94.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 1:30 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I freed them too. They were consorting with Hkedi’s comment.

  95. 95.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 1:32 am

    @NotMax: I met a good friend of mine through a font. I was at a party, and I was wandering around looking for the restroom, and he saw my tattoo and said, Dude, sweet Palatino interrobang!

  96. 96.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 16, 2017 at 1:33 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Kinky.

  97. 97.

    Ruckus

    August 16, 2017 at 1:34 am

    @Anne Laurie:
    Well then there’s at least 2 of us. And yes I’m also lysdexic. For whatever that has to do with comic sans.

  98. 98.

    eyelessgame

    August 16, 2017 at 1:37 am

    I am a major Steinman nerd, so any love for this song makes me … remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday.

  99. 99.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 1:40 am

    @Ruckus: It’s anecdotal, but Comic Sans seems to be easier to read for us dyslexics. (Since it was based on a typeface intended to be readable even when printed very small by crappy presses using worn-down metal type blocks, not a big surprise.)

  100. 100.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 1:43 am

    @Yarrow: They’re in the section of the tray next to the mash potatoes and gravy and below the brownie.

  101. 101.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    August 16, 2017 at 1:44 am

    @Anne Laurie: Interesting. Do you find that personally to be the case?

  102. 102.

    Ruckus

    August 16, 2017 at 1:44 am

    @Yarrow:
    Back in 19 hundred and 73 I know of a guy, a Marine, in a hospital and on a rather large dose of Thorazine who would regain censoriousness every so often and just start talking. Didn’t matter if anyone else was talking or had any relevance to anything. Then the Thorazine would regain control and he’d go back to sleep. Tucker reminds me of that guy. The thought just came to me that that man from 1973 probably would make a better president than drumpf. His thoughts were somewhat coherent if never on topic.

  103. 103.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 1:44 am

    @dmsilev: Hannity had Sekulow on to discuss Sekulow’s legal foundation filing suit for documents or something about President Clinton talking with AG Lynch on the tarmac or something.

  104. 104.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 1:45 am

    @Major Major Major Major

    Speaking of fonts, as a web designer just hearing the word Papyrus must give you the screaming heebie-jeebies.

  105. 105.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 16, 2017 at 1:47 am

    Time for me to rack out. I’ll catch you all on the flip. If the President tweets anything out while I’m offline, I’m sure someone else will post about it.

  106. 106.

    Ruckus

    August 16, 2017 at 1:50 am

    @Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]:
    I do. That may be why we like it. It does seem to flow better and that’s an issue with dyslexics. It’s also possible that the formation of the letters makes them harder to misinterpret.

  107. 107.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 16, 2017 at 1:52 am

    @NotMax: That’s funny, the words “Internet Explorer” do that to me.

  108. 108.

    NotMax

    August 16, 2017 at 1:59 am

    @Major Major Major Major

    Now, now, no call for using language like that.

    ;)

  109. 109.

    Anne Laurie

    August 16, 2017 at 2:04 am

    @Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]:

    Do you find that personally to be the case?

    Yup.

    I’m obviously not cripplingly dyslexic (dysnumeric, yes) — it’s mostly in the middle of words that my brain trips me up. (Back in my wild youth, I knew it was time to stop cruising for room parties and go to bed when the hotel EXIT signs started to read EIGHT. I figured out it was actually that my brain was insta-reading E-I-X-T and ‘remembering’ it as the word eight, but it was a reliable indicator nonetheless.) Have always suspected that women in my generation weren’t considered “real” dyslexics because there’s only so many possible letter conjunctions that make sense in English, and we mostly-unconsciously figure out that ‘The god chased the red ball‘ or ‘Sam was the dog’ is *not* a probable sentence.

    Comic Sans is a ‘clean’ script, every letter looks like itself and not two or three possible characters.

  110. 110.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 16, 2017 at 2:18 am

    @Adam L Silverman: What the hell is that? They’re seriously trying to justify this?

    ….and that clumsily?

  111. 111.

    Shalimar

    August 16, 2017 at 2:24 am

    @Adam L Silverman
    1. Slavery is evil, therefore
    2. Time to take down statues of long-dead slave-holders.

    There, replaced the pointless digressions with something that follows logically.

  112. 112.

    Shalimar

    August 16, 2017 at 2:27 am

    @MisterForkbeard: “Tucker’s Thoughts” appear to be whatever irrelevant trivia he still remembers from history classes.

  113. 113.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 16, 2017 at 2:32 am

    @cs:

    I have no idea why this song doesn’t seem to work on straight men, but seems to work for everyone else.

    My wife will be relieved to know that I am straight.

    God, I hated that song. That and “Bette Davis Eyes”.

  114. 114.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    August 16, 2017 at 2:56 am

    @cs: @Steve in the ATL: I luuuurve “Total Eclipse” precisely because of its over-the-top emo cheesiness. Whatever the hell it is, it’s the absolute most of it that’s ever been. The combination of spectacularly crappy song and otherworldly bad video is mesmerizing. “Betty Davis Eyes” is only second-string cheesiness but still worth a smug giggle.

  115. 115.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    August 16, 2017 at 3:39 am

    @Anne Laurie: @Ruckus: That’s Really interesting. I’m not in any way a a neurologist, but the recognition of symbols, and attaching them to meaning are definitely different parts of the brain. I’m sure research at some level has been done on this.

  116. 116.

    sm*t cl*de

    August 16, 2017 at 3:59 am

    @Mike in NC:

    all stores in town have run out of the special glasses.

    Kids today. Does no-one have 5.25 floppy disks any more? They were the perfect opacity.

  117. 117.

    sm*t cl*de

    August 16, 2017 at 4:03 am

    @Ruckus:

    in a hospital and on a rather large dose of Thorazine who would regain censoriousness every so often and just start talking.

    Don’t all of us regain censoriousness every so often?

  118. 118.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 16, 2017 at 4:33 am

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: “Total Eclipse” is by Jim Steinman, the same guy who wrote all those weird quasi – operatic Meat Loaf songs. It’s one of those things that seems obvious only in hindsight.

  119. 119.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 16, 2017 at 4:39 am

    Incidentally, if you’re looking for an easy way to view a partial eclipse, the easiest way I know is to look at the shadow of a leafy tree (if you have them). Every small gap between leaves is a crude pinhole camera. The round blobs of light projected on the ground will change to crescents.

  120. 120.

    sm*t cl*de

    August 16, 2017 at 4:40 am

    @NotMax:
    And now there is Comic Parchment, combining the best features of Comic Sans and Papyrus.
    The only reason I know I am not yet in Hell is that Algerian is not yet part of the mix.

  121. 121.

    prostratedragon

    August 16, 2017 at 4:44 am

    From TPM:

    The Toronto tower had its initial debut in 2001, with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company proclaiming that Trump would join as “co-developer of the Ritz-Carlton hotel and residences.”

    I just know the Ritz-Carlton company really needed Trump’s help to develop a hotel (which of course became a fiasco from which R-C withdrew early on). Not the first time I’ve thought this about a Trump partnership, but this time it did catch the light in a certain way …

  122. 122.

    Amir Khalid

    August 16, 2017 at 5:22 am

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
    I never felt one way or the other about Bette Davis Eyes but I do remember being mildly — very mildly — amused by this version.

  123. 123.

    different-church-lady

    August 16, 2017 at 7:40 am

    @Roger Moore: Wait… which font would you be using to say that?

  124. 124.

    different-church-lady

    August 16, 2017 at 7:43 am

    @Adam L Silverman: FIFTH BOX: “SLAVERY WILL SOON RETURN. PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW.”

  125. 125.

    different-church-lady

    August 16, 2017 at 7:51 am

    Obligatory. Then mandatory.

  126. 126.

    eataTREE

    August 16, 2017 at 4:14 pm

    That is some epic, epic big hair.

  127. 127.

    Wander Erection

    August 18, 2017 at 12:57 am

    I’m driving my Mitsubishi Eclipse and listening to Journey’s “Eclipse” album while wearing me LA Clips cap on the way to St. Louis to see the natural phenomenon that rhymes with “sea-lips.”

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