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Remembrance Of Things Pasta

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I know I haven’t been earning the bounteous salary Cole awards his front pagers; in a mad dash on a book MS that will not be done nearly as soon as I would like/it needs to be. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t drop in to post this, in honor of the day.

What follows is truly the best, the trophy-retiring entry in the April 1 documentary category.  Enjoy.

 

 

This thread could not be more open.

PS: Bonus cat pics, because I can.  Tikka, after being informed of Ginni Thomas’s texts to Mark Meadows:

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Tikka, on being informed that Clarence Thomas dissented from the order that would make those texts available to investigators.


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Tikka, on being informed that Clarence Thomas has neither recused himself nor resigned:

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And that’s all folks!

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  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I love the spaghetti harvest. What a classic.

    Tikka … well, imma just say I wouldn’t care to be either of the Thomases if judgmental Tikka were going to look at me in that tone of voice.

  3. 3.

    eclare

    OMG…that mockumentary about harvesting spaghetti is hilarious!  It amazes me how creative some people are.

    Fingers crossed for a good crop here this year.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    Posted a link to this in the morning thread, noting its status as a senior citizen this year, resultant in crickets.

    ;)

  11. 11.

    Martin

    I’ve seen no April fools jokes. It’s like society has reached a collective agreement that nothing is funny any more.

  14. 14.

    Tom Levenson

    @zhena gogolia: Heck, our university president announced this a.m. the resignation of a star biology professor who was about to have his tenure revoked for sexual misconduct. Not foolin’ at all.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    You should see my pasta plants, the penne pods are prodigious and ponderous.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    Oh, I watched! Have loved it for decades. Never tire of seeing and sharing it. Sorry not to have commented at the time.

  24. 24.

    Dangerman

    I’ll play management consultant to Disney. Free of charge. Tell Desantis to go fuck himself and a horse (if one is not available, one can be provided), suspend operations, padlock the gates, and announce that no further operations in Florida until the law is repealed.

    It’ll take about a day.

  25. 25.

    J R in WV

    Am I the only person who recalls hearing a long and involved story on NPR about the Fondue lakes of Wisconsin, and how there were fears that the then current Fondue craze was going the exhaust the lakes up there? Interviews and everything…

    Yes, of course it moved on April First !!

    I’ll check the comments to see if I’m the first to recall that great reporting scoop!

  27. 27.

    Bex

    @realbtl: DeMouse will make sure DeSantis won’t be re-elected governor or nominated for president.  DeMoney will go to other candidates.

  29. 29.

    CaseyL

    My personal favorite April Fools prank is BBC’s mock Life on Planet Earth ad about a newly discovered species of penguins… flying penguins.

  30. 30.

    Old School

    @J R in WV:

    Am I the only person who recalls hearing a long and involved story on NPR about the Fondue lakes of Wisconsin, and how there were fears that the then current Fondue craze was going the exhaust the lakes up there?

    This is the first I’m hearing about it, but you aren’t crazy.  It was a Fondue Hot Springs story in 1983.

  31. 31.

    Scout211

    Since this thread is open. . .

    The IRS now requires you to verify your identity through ID.me. I already had an online account with the IRS which I could still use until this summer after which everyone will need to switch to ID.me.  They encourage you to get an ID.me account as soon as possible.

    What I found out is that if you already have an ID.me account from any other government agency, you use that log in and password. I had an ID.me for the California DMV. I logged in with the original ID.me credentials and the site walked me through the personal information verification, drivers license photo upload and then the live facial recognition. I was relieved that it was as easy as it was.

    So taxes are now paid.

  33. 33.

    West of the Rockies

    Open thread, so I was thinking about how Republicans try to define Democrats, how they move from one disparaging word or phrase to another.  I recall bleeding heart liberal from 1970-something to 2000ish.  Snowflake was another.  Now Woke is their go-to insult word.

    But it always has to do with sensitivity, with our essential compassion for other people.

    I’m sure this is no major revelation, but is curious.  They really an I got mine, fuck you group of people.  Angry, greedy, and fearful.

  34. 34.

    Raven

    Today my wife’s mother would have been 100 so, for our weekly old people Al fresco dinner, she made an apple cake that her mom loved and has pictures and flowers!

  36. 36.

    Raven

    @West of the Rockies: For the two + years I’ve been aqua jogging I’ve worn ear phones and listened to podcasts. A guy I have known for years came at the same time and we’ve shot the shit. The other day he said “woke “ and, the next time we are there together I’m going to tell him that I am one! I’m not looking for trouble but I don’t want anyone having any illusions either.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    This sucks. Why couldn’t he wait?

    Rep. Filemon Vela, a Texas Democrat, officially resigned from Congress on Thursday night to take a position at a law and lobbying firm in Washington, DC, starting the process to set up a special election to replace him.

  39. 39.

    Redshift

    @J R in WV: There was another NPR one about how broccoli was named after the father of Albert Broccoli (the producer of the James Bond films), because he was the agronomist who had invented it a hundred years ago by crossbreeding cauliflower. I believed it for years, and used to tell people about it, until someone was a bit skeptical and it made me think “wait a minute, that doesn’t make sense…”

  40. 40.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Scout211: I filed my taxes using the same ID pin as previously. So I’m curious to know how you were prompted to use ID.ME.

  41. 41.

    West of the Rockies

    @Raven:

    Woke… in other words, conscious, aware, alert…  the horror.  Better than being comatose, unaware, stupefied.

  42. 42.

    Niques

    I remember seeing this (spaghetti harvest) in elementary school. Being Italian, I didn’t for a moment buy it … and I was pretty young. Don’t think any of my classmates did either. Amazes me to realize qanon MAGAts just might.

  47. 47.

    Scout211

    @Sure Lurkalot:

    I did log in with my previous ID but a message said my original account would expire soon,  I think in June of this year.  It just said I can get an ID.me log in  now or before our original accounts expire.

    Your original account credentials will work until this summer.

    ETA:  I had already read several news stories about the new account verification process for the IRS so I was aware that our current accounts will expire this summer. What was a pleasant surprise to me was to learn that you only have one ID.me log in that will work for  any government agency that uses that verification and log in process. For me, it made the process easier than I had expected.

  48. 48.

    Miss Bianca

    @Martin:

    I’ve seen no April fools jokes. It’s like society has reached a collective agreement that nothing is funny any more.

    The paper I work for used to do an April Fool’s front page. Not anymore. I think you may be onto something here.

  56. 56.

    Scout211

    @Baud:

    What they got rid of was the *mandatory* live facial ID requirement because there are many people without the ability to do that.  They added an option that includes talking with a live customer service person if the facial scan is not possible.

    The live facial ID process was quick and kind of wild. It uses your device’s camera to scan your face and matches it to your driver’s license photo..

  59. 59.

    Redshift

    @Baud: The story hangs together well, but the word broccoli is the Italian plural of broccolo, the flowering crest of a cabbage (because broccoli is a bunch of those.) It’s existed for centuries.

    But doing some googling now, it may not have been an April Fool’s. It appears Cubby Broccoli’s wife claimed to have done research in Florence that showed they were the descendents of the “inventors” and it was named after their family. A NYT obituary cited Broccoli claiming his uncle had brought broccoli to America. Both sound more like family tales than facts to me.

  60. 60.

    debbie

    I can’t find it now, but I think it was Adam who posted a tweet showing Ukrainian drivers navigating a mine field that the Russians had set up at a bridge crossing. Pretty ballsy of them, but soldiers arrived and cleared the field like this:

    Yes, the Ukrainian military are just kicking anti-tank landmines. It’s called the Ukrainian curling on the Warsaw Highway close to Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/9xAxRjFdYL— Illia Ponomarenko ?? (@IAPonomarenko) April 1, 2022

    ETA: The original tweet is in the comments.

  64. 64.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Scout211: Thanks for the good info. I was worried that I might have screwed up my refund. I filed a while back but I’ve heard it’s going to take a while this year. I did get my refund from the state within 10 days.

    I don’t like getting refunds…I would rather pay a bit than have money trapped over time. This was the first year I filed taking Social Security so there was a bit of a learning curve. I’m planning better for next year, hopefully!

  65. 65.

    debbie

    @eclare:

    Especially him! The drivers around here hauling the same kind of trailers drift into the next lane all the time.

  82. 82.

    Scout211

    @NotMax:

    The ID.me requirement is still in place and still will be required for all new users and by the summer for anyone who has an existing account. They have only changed the live video facial recognition part of it. It’s still there, but they have added an alternate option. You can now request a chat with a customer service person for verification if you can’t use the live video facial scan.  I uploaded a scan of the front and back of my drivers license and then did the video live scan of my face when prompted by the verification process. So they haven’t dropped anything, they just added another option.

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    @Scout211

    The IRS announced [in early February] that it would no longer be using the service ID.me. And what it’s going to do instead is develop a separate identity verification process that doesn’t require facial recognition. We don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like yet. The IRS said it’s working with other government agencies. So there’s not quite a sense of … we don’t have a new company name or a new product name. But we know that this next one isn’t going to require facial recognition technology. And in the interim, they want people to know that they can still file their taxes, that this should not interrupt the tax process. But in terms of long-term changes, we’re going to see a much different system, going forward. Source

  86. 86.

    Scout211

    @NotMax:

    Even though they are still currently using ID.me, if you verify with ID.me for the IRS, your selfie and biometric data will be automatically deleted.

    All selfie and biometric data is deleted for users who verify for the IRS.

    If you verified for the IRS before March 10, 2022,  your selfie and biometric data has beendeleted as of March 11, 2022.

    If you verify after March 11, 2022, your selfie and biometric data will be automatically deleted within 24 hours.

  91. 91.

    Original Lee

    @Scout211: We have an error somewhere in one of the IRS public-facing databases that prevents us from using ID.me and from E-filing. We have been trying to get it fixed for years. The IRS doesn’t have the manpower or money to try to fix it, and honestly, as long as we file early on paper, they lack incentive to give a shit. We are trying again before the inevitable “you can’t file on paper any more” thing happens.

  92. 92.

    Another Scott

    @Dangerman: 

    Public opinion has nothing to do with it. There are two laws in Florida: don’t cross Big Sugar, and don’t cross Disney. They pay for a lot of mistresses and college educations, and they move money so far down the chain they own a piece of you, too. https://t.co/vdoF6tZMzR

    — Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) April 1, 2022

    True? Maybe, maybe not.

    But it would be good to see The Mouse use some of its overwhelming power for good for a change.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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