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Memes, Updated (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  January 12, 20208:58 pm| 43 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads, Pet Blogging

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One day I’ll figure out how to make a GIF outta this, and maybe “Boston Terrier Noir” will outstrip “Dramatic Chipmunk” as the go-to meme for mock shock.

Dramatic Chipmunk

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    January 12, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    OMG, if Marty Feldman were a Boston Terrier…

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 12, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    B-A-D-G-E-R! B-A-D-G-E-R! B-A-D-G-E-R! And Badger is his name-o! ❤️?❤️

  3. 3.

    Baud

    January 12, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Look at that face!

  4. 4.

    Mike in Pasadena

    January 12, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Dogs are actually humans, sort of.

  5. 5.

    TaMara (HFG)

    January 12, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    OMG, it’s The Third Man!  Love this photo.

  6. 6.

    Barbara

    January 12, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    I can see why Geico uses a BT in its commercials on texting while driving.  Totally can see Badger as a member of the dog police.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    January 12, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    BADGER PUPPEH!!!

    But where are the mushrooms?

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    January 12, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Right? It totally has that vibe. You can hear the zither!

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 12, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    that face says to me: “You give me food?”

  10. 10.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 12, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    He looks like Janet Leigh in Psycho.

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 12, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    open thread: people are tweeting about whether or not Renée, in the last season of the Americans, was a spy– not really a spoiler for a show that went off the air two years ago. Matthew Rhys (Phillip) has weighed in to say “yes”, to which I say: for which side?

    And I still can’t believe he won an Emmy and Keri Russell didn’t.

  12. 12.

    Rob

    January 12, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Yutsano: Are there snakes? Should I panic?

  13. 13.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    January 12, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I always assumed Renee was a Russian spy, I liked that they left it ambiguous though.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 12, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone: yup, the ambiguity made it so much better

    I’m planning to binge the last two seasons soon. So many great supporting actors, too.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    January 12, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    @Rob: Heh. And here I was worried that joke was too old by now.

  16. 16.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    I’m getting a “whatchutalkinboutWillis?” vibe on that one.

  17. 17.

    Aleta

    January 12, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    Dog  Noir?   
    He’ll nose around. https://imgur.com/a/gp0wjpr

  18. 18.

    geg6

    January 12, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    I ❤️ Badger.  That is all.

  19. 19.

    2liberal

    January 12, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    One day I’ll figure out how to make a GIF outta this

    if you’ve got a sequence of image files you can use paint shop pro to make a gif file.  they have a free trial download.

  20. 20.

    Jeffro

    January 12, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    WH twitter account claiming today’s the first snowfall in DC…

    …it’s, like, 51° there right now

  21. 21.

    Jay

    January 12, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    Ladybug on Cat Nose pic.twitter.com/C1kPtiU7KY— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 12, 2020

  22. 22.

    Immanentize

    January 12, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @Yutsano:
    the joke is certainly NOT TOO OLD. But I might be.

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    January 12, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @Jeffro: Forecast is marked up in Sharpie again?

  24. 24.

    Bill Arnold

    January 12, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @Rob:
    I’ve been informed by a possibly unreliable narrator that this entire timeline was edited to add a snake(s) to the badgers and mushrooms. (One or more of those mushrooms might have been involved, but probably not.) TBH, I didn’t really know of this meme until recently.

    Nice pic!

  25. 25.

    Jay

    January 12, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    Millions of Indian workers + students have gone on strike + organized months of #CAA_NRC_Protests in the face of rising Hindu nationalism + far-Right violence. We spoke with Sarang Narasimhaiah on our latest podcast to find out more + discuss solidarity. https://t.co/0hkkdsEARd pic.twitter.com/lTQPGQOzz6— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) January 12, 2020

  26. 26.

    satby

    January 12, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): @Betty Cracker: Love that movie! This could be a still from it. Love his huge eyes!

  27. 27.

    zhena gogolia

    January 12, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    Badger is adorable.
    The good news is that both Howards End and Sanditon are very good, each in their own way. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Julia Ormond act as well as she does in HE.

  28. 28.

    satby

    January 12, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Good to hear, I’m looking forward to streaming them both tomorrow.

  29. 29.

    TaMara (HFG)

    January 12, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    Spent the morning cleaning. After dinner, Scout HAD to have something at the bottom of the dog toy box.  She managed to pull every toy out and they are now strewn across the room. At least she was entertained.

  30. 30.

    Jay

    January 12, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    the heart wants what the heart wants. Casey fell in love with her bone pillow. When it died, she was heartbroken, briefly.

    Thing was, when I first noticed how much in love with it she was, I went back to the pet store, bought the three they had in stock, and ordered 4 more. For 15 years, her bone pillow kept magically coming back to life.

  31. 31.

    sukabi

    January 12, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    Hey Betty, check your inbox…Gif-ified Badger for you.?

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 12, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Re Ormond, check out Smilla’s Sense of Snow, mentioned in the “mysteries” thread yesterday.

  33. 33.

    satby

    January 12, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): great movie! The previous thread had me looking up the fly fishing scene from Libeled Lady for some reason.

  34. 34.

    zhena gogolia

    January 12, 2020 at 11:38 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Yes, I’ve never seen that.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    January 12, 2020 at 11:49 pm

    @sukabi: How can you do that if Badger isn’t moving?

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    January 12, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    That face.  I ?Badger.

  37. 37.

    Eljai

    January 13, 2020 at 12:18 am

    @Aleta: Ha!  When I look at those photos, I hear Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life” in my head.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 13, 2020 at 12:24 am

    Badger’s look is the same one my brother’s Italian greyhound used to get: i.e., “Who’s Badger? And why are you yelling at me?”

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 13, 2020 at 12:44 am

    Never mind.

  40. 40.

    sukabi

    January 13, 2020 at 12:48 am

    @WaterGirl: gif files started out being static images… It’s been the last 20 years or that they’ve “upgraded” to adding frames for animation / or converting movie clips to gif format.

  41. 41.

    Aleta

    January 13, 2020 at 1:03 am

    @Eljai: That’s funny, because those kind of songs — Sinatra, Nat King Cole — seem to be playing (invisibly) in the background each morning he’s out for a walk, thrilled by every sign and clue he picks up about this wonderful world.

  42. 42.

    Aleta

    January 13, 2020 at 1:11 am

    @Eljai:

    Every time you near a rose 

    Aren’t you glad you’ve got a nose 

  43. 43.

    Betty Cracker

    January 13, 2020 at 11:18 am

    @sukabi: Nada. Can you try again? Or email to bettycrackerfl -at sign – gmail – dotcom? Thanks!

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