Keeper of the Really Smart Words

Comic. [Person with microphone in front of three people standing behind their own desks with drawers and a round box on top. The boxes of the first and last are shaking with their lids slightly raised.] PERSON WITH MIC: And now, for the final round, you have each been given a skunk with a hangover and chewing gum stuck to its fur. You have 30 minutes. Good luck. [caption] The Home Remedy World Championships

Home Remedies

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Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a book-filled cottage at the edge of the forest and solving minor mysteries in your village with the aid of a curious ghost cat.

1) Thank you; that was v informative and I’d’ve missed it

2) Kinda planning to die still mad about the reader who so *helpfully* explained to me that I had “unconsciously” written an effect that had taken hours of conscious work to deliberately achieve

Image of an early public demonstration of the telephone, captioned "new phone, who dis?"

It's the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, and who can forget Alexander Graham Bell's first, immortal words?

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

I hope I learn it from a Destiel meme like God intended.

FreeTax USA - decent software or a scam? I’m feeling pissy about TurboTax insisting on an OS with AI in it.

A play on the lyrics of "I'm Too Sexy for my Shirt" by Right Said Fred 1990s' UK Duo - "I am Too Saxon for My Shirt"

As someone else has suggested .... the lyrics are by Right Said Athelred (can't claim credit for coming up with this but its still very amusing!)

Go Boudicca on him

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No matter which route you take home tonight, you'll still wish you were sitting in a cozy secret library in the forest, sipping tea and reading about old magic with the wild folk of the wood.

Contagious laughter of the day: poor Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena and squash to an American 😆

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A dark painting in tans and mustards except for the splash of red blood on Chaney’s shoulder. Schwerner is already lying dead, Chaney is dying, clinging to Goodman, who is standing and looking to the right where the shadows of their killers can be seen. The pose is taken from a Pulitzer-winning photo of a priest blessing a dying soldier.

I’ve seen that one in person and it’s HUGE! Smacks you right in the face.

I almost missed Murder in Mississippi hanging right next to it.

Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:

Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.

I hope you feel better soon!

I wonder if this will bring back smaller cars. The Toyota Yaris, the Honda Fit - they sold like hotcakes & got great mileage, then it was somehow determined that Americans only wanted to drive PenisEnhancer 9000s so they stopped being sold. I know someone with a mini whose mileage equals my hybrid.

Gas has gone up nearly a dollar in a week here.

I take it you are not familiar with his pro-civil rights work.

Changing that would change a lot of history for the better!

That was a theme in John Bacon’s Gales of November too, and he was talking the 1970s. A fair chunk of the sailors on the Great Lakes came from ex-farm families who figured a lower chance of drowning beat a guarantee of starvation.

Me three on Rose; she was the one who edited the books to suit her libertarian ideals.

William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say"--you know, the plums in the icebox poem--translated into Old English.

My interest just increased

A saint, presumably Mary, in a white robe and blue cloak and halo, stands on a rock amid billowing clouds, her arms stretched out in welcome.

#StainedGlassSunday #cemeterysunday

Yes! Small town northeast PA, one of the fajillion historic graveyards visible from the road. Pennsylvania seems to be particularly thick with roadside historic graveyards.

Give me my hour back you goddamn animals

A copper sundial, long since turned green, sits on a square pillar. The inscription is hard to read, but enough can be made out to know that this is a centopath for George Merkel, who went down with the USS Asheville on March 3, 1942.

I don’t have any hourglass images for #cemeterysunday, so here is a sundial.

You can sort of make out a yellow stained glass angel behind door glass that’s both filthy and covered with water droplets

A blurry narrow slice of a figure doing something with something that is all that can be seen between the narrow ironwork on the door.

The door glass is reflecting the phone camera and the shadow of my hand as I try to block enough sun to get a shot of a golden crown on a yellow background.

I bet I know a place I’ll find lots of mortuary stained glass! How hard could getting the photos be?

The photos:

Oh, I **hate** when they do that!

Gotta keep the chain of custody of your gross mummified historical evidence rodents!