Yellow card, you say? You've committed the exceedingly rare two-puns-in-a-single sentence crime against humanity and you expect only a yellow card?! This truly egregious offense has had to be sent to the highest adjudicative body (what we call --- and I shudder to even say it --- the "WTF guys") for a ruling. But (and again I shudder...) I think you can expect (one more shudder) the dreaded puce card, only two having been handed down ever (final shudder)!
I'm sorry, you seem to conveniently overlook the fact that I am the self-appointed arbiter of what's right and what's yellow. But just to be fair, I checked my rule book and see a discussion of own goals but no provision for self penalties. Got a problem with that, take it up with Aileen Cannon.
I voted “more worried” not because I fear a sympathy or admiration vote — Trump’s supporters and nonsupporters are all locked in — but because Biden has not done enough to salvage himself. Simply acting like an adult is not enough.
Re: stick shifts — you want the Civic Si, not the Civic Sport. We love our Si. It’s half as much fun as a Porsche for only a quarter of the cost, seats 4 comfortably, and gets 40+ mpg on the highway.
I think the poll is ambiguous. Are you asking if we are now more worried about the odds of Trump winning or about the damage his administration would do if he were to win?
You outdid yourself, Gene!! This was hilarious. I am old enough to remember Pat Paulsen, who gave me many a chuckle. Thanks for illuminating this unpleasantly hot Monday morning.
The last time I had hospital food, I actually kind of liked it. It wasn’t the best in the world, but I certainly wouldn’t have considered it institutional food. Of course, at the time I was in such straits that anything which didn’t actively add to my discomfort was good.
I was in the hospital just overnight after each of my hip replacements, but I was disappointed, at every meal (four in total, I think), that I didn't have quite enough appetite to finish what was actually quite a good meal. Of course, given the reason I was there, there were no dietary restrictions, so no Jell-O for me.
According to Merriam-Webster (online) it was first "spit and image" and then "spitten image" and then, around the end of the 19th century, evolved into "spitting image."
Thank you, Gene. Really came to the fore when the puppet satire "Spitting Image" appeared way back when. Reagan's brain. Brilliant stuff, and the content of the satire was "spitting" for sure. LOL
Those of a certain age (like me) fondly recall that satirical British show of the mid 1980s, The Spitting Image. Their caricatures of world leaders were outrageous. Their Margaret Thatcher character was one of the best satires of a political leader I ever saw. I recall laughing myself into an asthma attack when I watched that show.
Yes! I think that's what made me respond to spit and image (which is pretty dumb, really, I admit, since there's no reason it would not have been a play on words).
I looked up the original news story of the Columbus man arrested with hamsters in his pants. It gets even funnier! It was published on July 9, and updated July 10 with a correction and this at the end: [Editor's Note: Columbus police initially provided an incorrect name for the suspect. Police later corrected his name to Matthew Pancake.] How’d you like to be the guy with the incorrect name?!
The first time I saw a microwave was in the mid-70s in the lunchroom at the worst summer job I ever had. There was a warning sign on it that it should not be used by people wearing a pacemaker.
Most of the threat of a microwave in that case has/had nothing to do with the microwave frequencies, and everything to do with the high powered transformer used to generate them. It’s a matter of shielding to fix. (As your wifi signal can attest.)
My uncle was a nuclear engineer who supervised building nuclear-powered submarines. He bought the first microwave when it came out, and laughed heartily at all the "radiation" warnings.
The first microwave oven I ever saw was at the home of a family I was babysitting for in the mid-1960s. I was totally gobsmacked when the wife put some bacon on a paper towel and cooked in the microwave. Paper -- in an oven! And it didn't burst into flames!
it was a joke on what he said.
Likely to see a new campaign slogan soon: "Add Vance and Regress!"
Is your stock of yellow cards running low?
The other leading VP candidate could tap his Rubio slippers together and chant, “There’s no place like Rome” (which is an LGBT resort in his state).
Yellow card, you say? You've committed the exceedingly rare two-puns-in-a-single sentence crime against humanity and you expect only a yellow card?! This truly egregious offense has had to be sent to the highest adjudicative body (what we call --- and I shudder to even say it --- the "WTF guys") for a ruling. But (and again I shudder...) I think you can expect (one more shudder) the dreaded puce card, only two having been handed down ever (final shudder)!
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
The yellow card was intended for you, for your “Add Vance and Regress!" campaign slogan.
If my two-puns-in-a-single sentence is in fact exceedingly rare, I hear the Hall of Fame beckoning. I’ll just ride off into the punset.
I'm sorry, you seem to conveniently overlook the fact that I am the self-appointed arbiter of what's right and what's yellow. But just to be fair, I checked my rule book and see a discussion of own goals but no provision for self penalties. Got a problem with that, take it up with Aileen Cannon.
Being fair and checking the rule book. Novel concepts. I sooner would throw myself on your mercy than take it within a mile of Aileen Cannon.
I voted “more worried” not because I fear a sympathy or admiration vote — Trump’s supporters and nonsupporters are all locked in — but because Biden has not done enough to salvage himself. Simply acting like an adult is not enough.
Re: stick shifts — you want the Civic Si, not the Civic Sport. We love our Si. It’s half as much fun as a Porsche for only a quarter of the cost, seats 4 comfortably, and gets 40+ mpg on the highway.
@Steve, love my high-end Mazda 3 with a stick.
The pic of the guy eating bull penis looks a bit like F*cker Carlson, don't you think?
I think the poll is ambiguous. Are you asking if we are now more worried about the odds of Trump winning or about the damage his administration would do if he were to win?
You outdid yourself, Gene!! This was hilarious. I am old enough to remember Pat Paulsen, who gave me many a chuckle. Thanks for illuminating this unpleasantly hot Monday morning.
The last time I had hospital food, I actually kind of liked it. It wasn’t the best in the world, but I certainly wouldn’t have considered it institutional food. Of course, at the time I was in such straits that anything which didn’t actively add to my discomfort was good.
I spent ten days in the hospital once and started looking forward to mealtimes, if only to disrupt the monotony.
I was in the hospital just overnight after each of my hip replacements, but I was disappointed, at every meal (four in total, I think), that I didn't have quite enough appetite to finish what was actually quite a good meal. Of course, given the reason I was there, there were no dietary restrictions, so no Jell-O for me.
I had dental surgery and a throat tube, and they gave me… grapefruit juice, really irritating. Awful.
"spit and image"? Isn't it "spitting image"?
it is not.
According to Merriam-Webster (online) it was first "spit and image" and then "spitten image" and then, around the end of the 19th century, evolved into "spitting image."
Hortense, you beat me to it. Here's the link to Merriam-Webster. It's an amusing read.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/spitting-image-origin-meaning
Saw that and smirked at the rightness of it.
Explain the literal meaning of spitting image. It is an idiocy, originally perpetrated by idiots. I reject it.
Point taken, but the literal meaning of spit and image is a bit hazy as well.
I think that "spitten image" best fits the intended meaning. For the record, I do NOT think that caviar comes out of fish's ass.
If we go back to a literal meaning that makes sense, then I would favor "spirit and image" as a likely source.
Spit and image makes sense. Spit meant essence. Spittin' image means ... nothing.
Spit means essence: if you say so.
But you're the guy who thinks caviar comes out of a fish's ass, so I'll take your word for it.
Thank you, Gene. Really came to the fore when the puppet satire "Spitting Image" appeared way back when. Reagan's brain. Brilliant stuff, and the content of the satire was "spitting" for sure. LOL
I agree.
Better consult the hawk tuah girl.
Those of a certain age (like me) fondly recall that satirical British show of the mid 1980s, The Spitting Image. Their caricatures of world leaders were outrageous. Their Margaret Thatcher character was one of the best satires of a political leader I ever saw. I recall laughing myself into an asthma attack when I watched that show.
Yes! I think that's what made me respond to spit and image (which is pretty dumb, really, I admit, since there's no reason it would not have been a play on words).
Here's a YouTube link to a review of the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omC3xeCZBX0
Aha, I just posted another link. Love that show. I have some of the puppets, not actual the for sale versions.
Oh man, I remember that one as well.
I looked up the original news story of the Columbus man arrested with hamsters in his pants. It gets even funnier! It was published on July 9, and updated July 10 with a correction and this at the end: [Editor's Note: Columbus police initially provided an incorrect name for the suspect. Police later corrected his name to Matthew Pancake.] How’d you like to be the guy with the incorrect name?!
And here are the best moments of Rishi Sunak in the current iteration of The Spitting Image:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mEvvtuWac
The first time I saw a microwave was in the mid-70s in the lunchroom at the worst summer job I ever had. There was a warning sign on it that it should not be used by people wearing a pacemaker.
Most of the threat of a microwave in that case has/had nothing to do with the microwave frequencies, and everything to do with the high powered transformer used to generate them. It’s a matter of shielding to fix. (As your wifi signal can attest.)
My uncle was a nuclear engineer who supervised building nuclear-powered submarines. He bought the first microwave when it came out, and laughed heartily at all the "radiation" warnings.
It’s that whole “non-ionizing” (i.e., not stripping particles off your atoms) part that people were slow to appreciate.
The first microwave oven I ever saw was at the home of a family I was babysitting for in the mid-1960s. I was totally gobsmacked when the wife put some bacon on a paper towel and cooked in the microwave. Paper -- in an oven! And it didn't burst into flames!
at the end of the post:
"start with paulson, then paris hilton, the gerald mcboing boing. 1968, two bad candidates
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linguini or lin"
A little covfefe, Gene?
It has been deleted. Not the first time I have left in a note to myself, won't be the last. My only prayer is that when it happens, it is anodyne.