— Respectful Memes (@RespectfulMemes) June 18, 2023
I have distilled every cat-owner interaction into one image pic.twitter.com/d4NWE9T95v
— Katie (@ZiziFothSi) April 28, 2019
As @itsdaneesaur pointed out, the opposite is also true pic.twitter.com/DlAuGrMLeQ
— Katie (@ZiziFothSi) April 29, 2019
War for Ukraine Day 480: A Brief Sunday Night Update
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
That’s Loki and Maisie.
opiejeanne
It’s our Annie. Henry would never, but Annie sure would.
SpaceUnit
What is this thread about?
twbrandt
@SpaceUnit: IYKYK
Origuy
I vaguely recognized that statue, but I couldn’t place it. Google informs me that it is Ashurbanipol the Lawgiver, located in the San Francisco Civic Center near the Asian Art Museum. I’ve probably passed it 100 times. Apparently there’s a controversy about it; the local Assyrian community says that no Assyrian king would wear a mini-skirt and that it looks more like the Sumerian king Gilgamesh. I have heard of long lasting feuds, but Assyrians and Sumerians appear to have been going at it for millenia.
Tony Jay
@Origuy:
I’m sure more knowledgable Jackals will correct me if I’m wrong, and not at all to detract from your larger point, but I think the Sumerians predate the Assyrians by quite a chunk of time. The cultures that Assyria would have had grudges with would have been late Bronze Age/early Iron Age Babylonia, Egypt (obvs), the Hittites and, of course, the poor old Mitanni.
The Assyrians weren’t exactly popular, skirts or no skirts.
twbrandt
@Tony Jay: The Wikipedia article Origuy linked to has some details about the dispute. Apparently, the Assyrian community in the US did claim that the sculpture resembled a Sumerian king rather than an Assyrian one. I personally haven’t a clue either way, so 🤷♂️
JPL
Happy Juneteenth Day!
Grand imps will be visiting since they don’t have camp today. Fun times.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Well, you know the old saying:
One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
:)
eclare
Ha! Yes, I have baby here.
Tony Jay
@twbrandt:
I was just being pernickety. It’s early here and without the requisite amount of coffee in my system I get very “Well, actually..” at the drop of a hat.
@NotMax:
“Around the table what began as a smattering of applause evolved into a swelling, pulsing cacophony of approval as news of his achievement lapped the room and chair after chair was scraped back so that the assembled guests could rise and, like a single organism, pay homage to the wit of their host.”
satby
Opened my tablet to this thread right after feeding the latest batch of neighborhood outside cats, which started with an obvious sibling of Bitchleen’s and has expanded now to three or four more, only one of which has a collar. Two, possibly three look like they came from the Bitchleen litter. Cats can be assholes, but they can be the sweetest things ever too. How people can neglect them so cruelly, I can’t imagine.
satby
@JPL: Hope you all have a fun day and that it isn’t too hot.
Here, it will be 89° with air already in the orange zone for “poor” air quality. Once the herd eats and moves on, I need to get out and water before it’s really warm.
Kristine
@satby: One good thing about being close to the lake—supposed to stay below 80F all week. But it’s weather and can always change. Maybe we should call it the asshole instead of the cat.
I hope next weekend’s rains materialize for us both.
satby
@Kristine: I hope next weekend’s rains materialize for us both.
For sure! I miss being closer to the lake. I used to just drive over to watch the sunsets at least once a week in MI when I was 10 minutes away, now it’s almost an hour to my favorite beach to do that. 😕
kalakal
That cartoon is my Virgil. He can be an absolute jerk towards the others when mood takes him.
@Tony Jay: Statue can’t be Assyrian, it’s not purple and gold.
prostratedragon
Speaking of the Hittites, a complete performance by the Met of Aknaten, from 2019, has appeared on youtube. I sure hope it’s legal. Anyway, the quality is at least 80 percent as good as the disc, which if you’ve never seen it is good enough to start.
O. Felix Culpa
@prostratedragon:
The Met in HD is doing a reprise showing of Akhnaten in movie theaters on June 26th. Highly recommended!
H.E.Wolf
My mind instantly went to one of my favourite poems by Ogden Nash: https://allpoetry.com/Very-Like-a-Whale
[original reference: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43827/the-destruction-of-sennacherib ]
prostratedragon
@O. Felix Culpa: Thanks, I did not know that! And at two convenient locations.
kalakal
@H.E.Wolf: Thanks, I didn’t know the Nash poem, it’s very clever and very funny
Paul in KY
@SpaceUnit: Cats
SteveinPHX
@H.E.Wolf:
 
Thank you. I had not come across this before.
frosty
@NotMax: That is old. I first saw it in a book at my grandma’s called What’s Funny and Why. All the examples were radio humor; the book dated to the 20s. I still remember a lot of the jokes.
pluky
@Tony Jay: There are reasons why what is left of Nineveh are utter ruins.