Brush up your Shakespeare

in the USA, a lot of people are upsest at Trumpiebooy's insults. So I have a suggestion for him:

 

The internet: A summary

 

Spring harvest time

conspiracy theories? Or secret histories? oh my

lifestyle recommendations for the week

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I believe this is a parody:

Happy Thanksgiving

yup

 

smile

 

It's time to cleanse your timeline with this wholesome thread 🧵

( This thread will put a smile on your face ) ❣️

1. This only happens to you once. 😃 pic.twitter.com/BrDAbjG0gm

— 💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 (@Vinod_r108) April 14, 2025

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no new photos of our own puppies: The white dog's three puppies just opened their eyes, and The black dog's puppies were born ten days later,... so in a week or so it will be: watch where you walk: Danger: Puppie poo.

yes a good idea

“They said it’s going to take us a while. For example, the CEO of Pepsi, which owns Doritos, said ... ‘The consumers like them to be very red, and we have not yet found a vegetable dye that we can match, but we’re going to do it.’ And I said they all have to be out within two… pic.twitter.com/eptKrboSzt

— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) April 10, 2025

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eating processed food is necessary for busy moms, but when I eat a lot I get allergies/hives. Here, the main problem is if the cook uses too much Bagoong (shrimp paste).

as for color: Well, this year's healthy food fad is tumeric.

Harvest time

....the classic April fools day joke from the BBC...

Julie and Carol at Carnagy hall

 One of my favorite albums was from this show where Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews had a concert.

Alas, in black and white not colour, and and the picture is very poor quality...  Maybe some geek could sharpen it up so we could watch it on Netflix.

But anyway, the sound isn't too bad. Turn up speakers and enjoy (and put down your coffee before watching: It's that funny).

Factoid of the day

the serious minded types who never had a teenage son were upset at some of the jokes posted on the internet by one of the nerds finding misuse of millions of dollars at USAID.

So the press is pouncing on his sardonic comments and nickname.

But they got his nickname wrong: 

 
I guess none of them were AD/DC fans. 

The balls in the lyrics were dance parties, but actually was a satire of rich folk, and of course full of double entendres

double entendre

Defintion: A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.

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Update: The guy with the nickname Big Balls is not the same nerd who posted sardonic jokes interpreted as racist. But the news stories were not clear.

Anyway, here is the Vance telling a Congresswoman to calm down:

For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up.

Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children. https://t.co/xpLjhfk6Bz

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 7, 2025

Musical interlude of the week

 

The Inauguration: Yes, Euroweeenies, Yanks are crazy

Man of the people arrives for the Inauguration:

he's not even from Minnesota, where this does happen, but the mountain areas of Western PA are almost that cold, so you don't need long pants and a subzero parka until it hits 20 below F.

 

This is what it’s like bringing your engineers to a client meeting pic.twitter.com/J0y7TkUbao

— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) January 20, 2025

Don't mess with the Alligators (unless you are a Cajun)

the joke about alligators in the sewers of NYCity refers to an urban legend.

This urban legend claims that alligators have been living underneath the bustling streets, having been flushed down toilets as unwanted pets and growing to monstrous sizes in the damp labyrinth below. Despite its persistence in popular culture, thorough investigations and urban research have consistently disproved the existence of sewer alligators. The New York City sewer system, while vast and complex, has not provided any concrete evidence of an alligator population within its confines.

there is even a statue to commemorate this urban legend in Union Square Park there.

here local news discusses:

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this urban legend is found in various short stories and novels, but the saddest reference to the alligator in the sewer myth is Harlan Ellison's story Croataon:

which is about our throw away culture, regrets, and maybe hope at the end: where pet alligators and unwanted fetuses are thrown away carelessly but found later by the antagonist:

And the light came nearer, and the light was many lights. Torches, held aloft by the children who rode the alligators.

audio link but donot say I didn't warn you

WHY MOTHERS ARE ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL

 

Roald Dahl

Happy Spaghetti day

 

Minnesota Nice

Before some snowflake cancelled him for giving an unwanted back rub (which was a normal sign of affection back in the 1970s...like a lot of the "me too" claims, the story was twisted as a horrific assault, not a simple flirtation that most of us learned to cope with when we were teenagers by replying with a polite remark, or if too gross, a slap, and then forgetabout it.

 But before that hysteria became a way for women to destroy men who they disliked (and get their two minutes of fame), Garrison Keillor was Minnesota nice was Lake Woebegon..

Some of his commentaries can be downloaded from Internet Archives.

  Garrison Kiellor still blogs: and with time his writings have become less bitter and more philosophical, seeing the niceness of ordinary life.

: James Thurber said, “Let us not look back in anger or look forward in fear but let us look around us in awareness.” It’s plain old sensible Midwestern stoicism and they should put it on the dollar bill in place of “In God we trust.” The progressive left looks back in anger and the regressive right looks forward in fear, but the old man walks down the street and is aware of bustling enterprise, delivery e-bikes, little storefronts striving to survive, tight clusters of families, the woman in full stride announcing into her iPhone, “That’s absolutely ridiculous,” the man and woman stopping because their dogs wish to talk to each other.

And today his post is about TIME magazine's man of the year: Taylor Swift. (LOL).

Because, uh, why? I mean, she's popular with young ladies (My granddaughters are TS fans: They even went to her concert in Chicago last year.) But like giving a Nobel prize to a minor songwriter whose last hit was to push peace in the 1970s (ignore the boat people and genocides after that peace was made), excuse me if I don't get excited at a pop icon being man of the year.

Keillor notes that even Harvard is planning a course on her lyrics...

The professor came across Swift about 12 years ago. “I noticed that of all of the songs that one would hear in, you know, drugstores and airports and bus stations and public places, there was one that was better than all the other songs. I wanted to know who wrote it. It was just a more compelling song lyrically and musically, just a perfect piece of construction. It was ‘You Belong With Me.’”

then Keillor notes with his mildly sardonic wit:

Some people may prefer “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wand’ring bark, whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken,” and other people prefer “Why can’t you see you belong with me.”

whatever. 

 

I lived in Minnesota for years, but not really in Minnesota: I was a doctor at a PHS hospital, and it was Objibwe culture, which is a different culture from the locals who were mainly Scandinavian farmers or small business owners, or the yuppies who moved to the woods to live close to the land. 

But people forget that the ancestors of these affluent farmers were dirt poor: but they remember, which is why these open hearted types welcomed refugees: hence the Hmong and Somali communities in Minneapolis.

Before the George Floyd kerfuffle, Minnesota was best known for the movie Fargo:

In Minnesota, people party outside when it is 20 below, because if you bundle up correctly there is no such thing as cold weather.

and Yes, people ice fished on the lakes:

 

 That is from Grumpy old men, which can be downloaded from internet archives LINK

Yum. Sushi

 

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Lolo used to eat sushi every time we visited Manila. But with the improvement of the economy, we now can buy it in town as a take out...

Satire anyone?

 

Pope Francis Glues Self To Sistine Chapel Ceiling To Protest Climate Change https://t.co/MRdQbGLkoi pic.twitter.com/0jDBlRZ0HN

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 19, 2023

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CNN Blames Fog Of War For Errant Reporting On Gaza Bombing, Russian Collusion, Jussie Smollett, Covington Catholic, Hunter’s Laptop, The Steele Dossier, Kyle Rittenhouse, Origins Of Covid (Continued) https://t.co/A5C295Pw7F pic.twitter.com/NiUKYwcQDx

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 19, 2023

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Greta's moral rules:
- killing 1,400 civilians —> good 👍
- using plastic straws —> bad 👎 pic.twitter.com/EMQcdfWoSr

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 20, 2023

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