cartoon medley #10
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Derpetologist
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random thoughts
At work today, my Yemeni coworker asked for help in translating an Arabic phrase that means “to carry a painful burden in your heart against someone”. He said the word “grudge” wasn’t strong enough. I suggested words like resentment, scorn, contempt and disdain. He explained that he was very angry at his wife’s sister for calling Child Protective Services on him and temporarily losing custody of his infant daughter. He said he’s been angry at the woman for a long time, and that is a sin according to his version of Islam.
Arabs and Muslims are pretty big on grudges, I think. Militant Muslims have been trying to kill Salman Rushdie since 1989 over a novel few have read. Bin Laden complained about the loss of Al-Andalus (Spain) in 1492. He scheduled the attack 9/11 because that was the date of the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
suggested music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYhYO02f98
Anyway, I suggested the word nemesis and he said that the feeling you have toward your nemesis is the right word. “Bitter hatred” is close enough, I think. “Enmity” is not quite strong enough.
I’m thankful for a job where I get to practice Arabic sometimes. Better to be a content forklift driver than a miserable process engineer. And the job is engineering adjacent. Close enough. Short commute, decent pay, exercise, fresh air, sunshine…it’s a pretty good gig. I’ve basically achieved my goal of having a simple, peaceful life. And I’m comfortably poor to boot. Yay me. It sure beats being in jail or an insane asylum. Inshallah, I’ll never be back in either of those places.
Hostility? Loathing? Anmosity?
Animosity would be my choice. (Not raggin’ on your spelling, or your cord, Nelson.)
a strong feeling of dislike, ill will, or active hostility toward someone or something.
I highly enjoy it adds this: “It is not a small annoyance. It is a strong, lasting anger or resentment”
*swoon*
*big Thumbs Up*
“I’m thankful for a job where I get to practice Arabic sometimes.” Keeping your eye open for such is smart. There’s always something fun in there. And your forklifting can carry you to many different places, perhaps one of your choosing later. Very good things.
Well accomplished.
Forklift driver… that means that you are a good forker.
I love my (mostly) peaceful life. It’s worth has no price.
Arabic is a fascinating language – prolly Hebrew too but I never looked at it much.
When I was an exchange student sprout I spent some of my meager pocket money on language material. Dutch was one. And Catalan, since we had spent lots of time there. And Welsh – another fascinating language. Arabic was another.
The host mom who cleaned up once in a while was baffled at my interest to say the least. Her proper son became a priest so neener neener. I just got useless a linguistics degree.
Cunning at least?
Dutch? That’s not a real language.
https://www.cracked.com/article_39181_14-hilarious-examples-of-dutch-not-sounding-like-a-real-language.html
A lot of that so-called humor stems from Americans having no clue about Dutch orthography.
‘oo’ is pronounced ‘oh’ being the prime example from that lot of nonsense
Better luck next time.
“Critics, some longtime supporters among them, have argued that Chautauqua’s programming has leaned heavily in one ideological direction”
lol No way
Chatawhatsit has been so instrumental in the fabric of rural American life that this is the first time I have ever heard of it.
In a long winded piece that didn’t even tell me what the hell it was. Unless it was some weird Ted talk like cult from the late 1800s when cults were all the rage on the eastern half of the country.
Traveling Chautauqua gatherings are a major plot point of the Elvis Presley movie The Trouble With Girls.
That’s pretty much exactly what it is. It’s still a pretty big deal for talky, arty, and hippieish types. Upstate NY was the epicenter of that particular Religious Revival, too.
My “favorite” TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4R5-y0Dc1s
featuring the urgent need for feminist glaciology!
See also East Aurora. A proto-hippie arts & crafts movement near Buffalo. No religious overtones that I am aware of but some cool shit.
I have heard of Roycroft furniture.
Interesting and weird history.
Is the TRD thing even a thing anymore?
It seemed to have gone off the rails pretty early.
Ted, not Toyota Racing Development.
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Among Hubbard’s many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine SM U-20 off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
😮 I forgot about that. Their headquarters was an astonishing example of early Frank Lloyd Wright from a period before “Rust Belt” was a thing. Demolished long ago, now a toxic waste dump part of town.
Whut
Wow, that glacier video actually ended up being crazier than I thought it would be.
I wouldn’t have thought that but upon reflection, being spread out without too many people to meet would make Chaturbate more appealing.
Does The Satanic Verses count as a banned book?
I have always been quite fond of Canada but the pic at the top here is hilarious.
+1 “Outer New Jersey” 🤣😂
Norther Dakota needs to calm down.
Years ago, I exchanged emails with James Howard Kunstler in which I said that since there are large amounts of methane on Jupiter and Saturn, perhaps natural gas and even oil on earth formed without life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kudryavtsev#Abiogenic_theory
He called me a poopyhead and sarcastically suggested we should build a pipeline to those planets.
His TED talk is funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
He’s a curious one. A clear case of “the Democratic Party left me”.
“Upper Ohio,” bitchezz!! Take THAT you Sorry State Up North (except for the UP. I like that part.)/::just a little sensitive after pulling up behind a car festooned with blue and yellow “M”s and a bumper sticker that said “Partnership for a Buckeye-Free America”::
They hate flowering trees?
Odd thing to want to genocide.
I just don’t want to live in a country without chocolate-coated peanut butter fudge.
mmm want
Well, you COULD’VE moved to Ohio, but NOOOOO!!! Think you can get these in Joisey?
I confirmed the other day with a coworker I like that the downtown Cleveland office – our “operations headquarters” – is indeed moving to some outer suburb early next year. I guess the downtown experiment is over – the building is becoming a dump, she says.
I am comfortable with my choice. I would not be happy there.
Your absence = Nephilium hardest hit
I understand. It would have been the wrong end of the state anyway. 😁
I thought Ohio only had ass-ends.
1 and 3 are very good. 2’s pretty good. The pictures are pretty. Would import into the Digital Enchantress. Prince digs your style.
3 is today’s winner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nc88_ZEfxg
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/06/truth.html
There are times when translation is not necessary. Darmok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnc74Vljx0
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/06/code-switch.html
Fan captions… neat. A great episode.
Temba, his arms wide!
My explanation is that spoken Tamarian is as different from written Tamarian as spoken English is from mathematical notation. This explains how Tamarians were able to build starships despite appearing to lack words for numbers.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/05/darmok-and-art-of-motorcycle-repair.html
play the 5 tones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZj7gUIO-2k
The 5 tones mean: hello, let’s talk. When the humans kept repeating it, the aliens got annoyed and shouted it.
It reminds me of a joke I heard from a traveling engineer: I don’t speak Japanese, but I do speak loud English.
Wild applause from this language geek.
And yes, the concept was utterly ridiculous but somehow they made it fun.
I also never got how Klingons were able to construct starships despite being completely fucking retarded.
suggested music for the digital enchantress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mvU8HWDTQ
Would beep-boop with.
I think the scrawny kid could take bubba.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Hey buddy, stop doing that!
about #5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veve
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A veve (also spelled vèvè or vevè) is a religious symbol commonly used in different branches of Vodun throughout the African diaspora, such as Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo. The veve acts as a “beacon” for the lwa, and will serve as a lwa’s representation during rituals.
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I like combining art from many different places.
“Lionel Richie in ICU after struggling to finish St. Louis concert”
He checked himself into a hospital in St. Louis. Impressive dude. Younger than I thought, 77. His appearance on Top Gear is really funny, when he described the dealer’s reaction when Richie said he wanted to buy ~6 Mercedes (or similar, for the Commodores), and the dealer strongly doubted if he had any money.
Reminds me! Dad turns 77 in September. On Thurs, bro and me are taking him to a John Fogerty show in Chicago. It’s Mom’s present, and our present for delivering it, cuz she ain’t goin’. His knee is forever bugging him after replacement, and he kinda didn’t rehab it well, and I really hope we get seats. Surely, we will. But, uh. That also seems more lame. I like CCR just fine, but. Hmmm. I bet I enjoy the AirBnB Colin got.
Is that a new Fogarty show, or and old Fogarty show?
That’s for me to find out.
I see the US (Tennis) Open has fucked itself yet again.
“Let’s stage the last major event of the tour every year during the city’s hottest, muggiest, and often rainiest weeks.”
All the outdoor matches are canceled again because wet.
If I were a world-class tennis player I would stay home because the tour always favors the hottest, most disgusting weather everywhere it goes.
Overhead at work:
“Yeah, this shit is all fucked up. I’ll probably have to nigger rig it.”
suggested music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KoXt9pZLGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs
[bald eagle lands on McDonald’s sign and sheds a single manly tear]
‘nigger rig it’
I’ve been hearing that since the 80’s.
The polite term is Afro-Engineering.
Afro engineering.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_cqTCT5g0&pp=ygURQWZyaWNhbiBhaXJwbGFuZXM%3D&ra=m
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4-_2C5oQ0Ns
related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkaX6tyq9pI
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramses_II_attacks_his_Nubian_enemies_in_the_south.jpg
That term of art would never have come out of the mouth of my mom but if I have heard it it definitely would have come from the stepfather mom married in my later HS years – or because he had somewhat toned it down by then – more likely from his son who was not at all afraid to let that stuff rip.
Buddy absentmindedly used that term when his sgt asked if he had something tied down. His black sgt. Just pointed at the ground as my pal was already moving downward when he realized what he’d just said.
Fucking Gunbroker is being a giant CUNT about logging in.
pew squirrels
You have to prove you’re not a robot?
RE: Number One
I always figured that the Village Peoples’ “YMCA” dance would be a lot harder to do in Chinese.
The first Chinese dictionaries ordered characters based on those found in the Great Learning, since so many people had memorized it, kind of like the alphabet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Learning#Effects_on_education_in_Modern_China
Iran’s leaders and most of its people see themselves as having been at war with the US and Israel since 1979 and not being defeated.
It doesn’t matter that the US killed their top leaders. They lost far more people in the war with Iraq (a US ally at the time) and survived that too.
The war will end and not with the unconditional surrender of Iran. This will only serve to make the US government and military to look like even bigger fools than they already have been.
Declare victory and stop bombing them. Let the ships come and go. The Iranians will claim a greater victory, but so what? They’ve been doing that for 47 years. Continuing the war just drives up oil prices.
They know we won’t send ground troops, and that gives them another propaganda victory.
In other news, this happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9PUaNju-M
reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frn_LiljdQ0
I can’t disagree. And I hate that the Left is earning points from this shit.
I hate the Left, and I hate pointless warring. Why is that so unusual anymore?!
“NJ teacher, a mom of 2, sobs as she’s sentenced for sex with teen: ‘You ruined him’”
Saw headline. First thought? No teen was harmed. Click and see teacher. Oh. The hottie was the JUDGE. Well. It works. See also: Clancy.
I also immediately called bullshit.
Unless she really, really fucked with his head? Maybe.
Pic of the teacher’s changed. She’s… uh. Cuter than before. Big boned. I’m more indignant they’ve taken away the pic of the judge! I’d sentence her Honor. (Unless that pic was also a lie… likely, yes….)
The really bare minimum I skimmed this crap suggested that she played major head games with him. So, possibly not the usual “I’d bang that” you’d hear from the average male teenager.
#5: hippie Death comes for us all.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/11/hippie-toon-compilation.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2msh0jut2Y
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/not-cool-man.html
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/08/who-wore-it-better-me-or-homer.html
Me, late 2024: (picture shown)
Head cannon is a funny thing. Not at all what I thought you’d look like.
I’m a man of many looks:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/01/doctor-chaotic-neutral.html
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/12/fat-me-circa-2015.html
You actually look a lot like a younger guy I work with. He was a MP in the Air Force. Served in Afghanistan. I’d have to ask him again to remember when and where.
As far as head cannon is considered, for years, ever since TOS days, my head cannon imagined OMWC looking like Telly Savalas…I guess he’s more of a Vermin Supreme(his words, not mine).
I gained 100 pounds between ~30 and ~50. It happens.
Nowadays the only way I can seem to shed significant weight is spending a week or two in the hospital not eating.
LOL I can’t recall if I’ve seen him – almost met in person, maybe on a Zoom briefly? – but that’s actually how I have always pictured him in my head.
I powerlifted in the 132lb class in high school. That’s what I’m still at. Same with Colin, but in 114lb.
(I’m thrilled with my genetic luck. To be fair, I kinda needed it.)
It’s the most wonderful time of the year:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/darmoktoberfest.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j11MOncimNQ
I heard the above song on the radio during a road trip which took me through Wisconsin, among many other places.
I got botfucked trying to leave a comment. (h/t Rhywun) I guess we are twinsies Rhy.
I wonder if Eyepiece can copy the contents of the textbox to the pasteboard when the user clicks Submit. Sometimes I do it during periods of major turbulence here but it hasn’t helped yet because the one time I forget….
“I wonder if Eyepiece can copy the contents of the textbox to the pasteboard when the user clicks Submit.”
I’ve learned to do that with every post. It’s kinda habit now, but I have ‘accidentally’ copied over shit I actually wanted in there. (Don’t mention the clipboard that holds multiple things. If real, it frightens me.)
I mentioned pasteboard because my OS weirdly has both concepts. I have a macro that keys through my comments and which is tied to the “pasteboard” rather than the “clipboard” because it works better.
So it’s not just me who gets confused by that? This pleases me.
*scratches entry off Afraid to Ask list*
I’ve added an issue to gitlab to look into that
👍
I predict nothing will come of this: ‘Hunter Biden admits ‘jobs’ at Burisma+ helped finance his crack cocaine addiction.
“I never went broke,” Biden boasted on the “Dopey” podcast, after describing a two-month-long bender at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, Calif., where the former first son said he tried to “go out with a bang.”
“Dopey” host Dave Manheim asked Biden how he was able to “scrape the money together” for the cocaine and prostitutes and private bungalows at the luxurious Chateau Marmont.
“Well, I still had the residual. Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma,” Biden explained.
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I do gotta say, I bet Hunter’d be fun to party with.
Being the wastrel son of a prominent Democrat is basically a license to print money to purchase drugs and pussy. And get off scot free doing it.
Good shot.
I was in Midtown today, but only underground. I wonder if this homicidal maniac was “previously known to law enforcement”.
Lift me up, Scotty.
Somehow the NYP has puked up an actually interesting sciencey article that isn’t littered with cheesy puns and non-sequiturs.
I had hoped today would go better. But I woke up at 3am feeling awful. I’m debating breakfast. I have a shortage of cheese though, which makes most of my options disappointing. Unless I want to cook chicken or steak. I don’t. At most I might cook some eggs.
Tragedy is when I get a paper cut on my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Happy national burnt ends day!
Mmmm…meat…
🤤👍⛅️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UroPqMsr3UU
🎶🎶
😶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., U, RCD, and Beau!
Mornin” GT!
Morning, GT.
How goes it?
How are you today, Beau?
So far, so good this morning, U. Minor issue: no overnight oats to eat this morning, as yesterday’s didn’t taste right so I didn’t eat more than a couple of bites. I suspect the milk had turned despite its rather optimistic “best by” date. Stopped at two places on the way home from work, but neither had half gallons of 2%.
I hope you’re feeling better.
Well, the rain decided to start pouring for my trip to the store. And someone decided to park an BMW in my spot when I got back to my house. Who the *bleep* arrives in this neighborhood between 6 and 630am? And why would anyone bring a BMW into this upper working/lower middle class neighborhood? I don’t think we have any drug dealers who actually live around here.
I’m hanging in there. My cardiac ablation is a week from today, so my stress levels might go up a bit ;-\ Not too worried, though. The couple of days afterwards, as the anesthetic aftereffects fade, will probably be less fun.
U: There’s a BMW parked in your parking place.
You have eggs.
Just sayin’… 😇
I no longer have eggs. I cooked the last of them for breakfast.
Beau: I believe my boss may have had that procedure done within the last year or two, and he’s doing very well. Best wishes! 🤞🙂
My youngest brother had it done a few years ago and is very pleased. Hopefully this will put the heart issues behind me and get me off some mildly unpleasant meds.
🎶👍
Huh, it occurs to me they have 3 more albums I don’t know.
So I’m reading there are 9 women on the Clancy jury and they have been deliberating 3 days so far.
I predict a hung jury, because somebody thinks it just doesn’t feel right to convict her.
What the hell is there to deliberate?
Degree of guilt? First degree, second, manslaughter.
Then there’s the crazy lady who thinks beyond all evidence the Husband somehow brainwashed the defendant into thinking she did it.
“So I’m reading there are 9 women on the Clancy jury and they have been deliberating 3 days so far.”
Which circle of Hell is that?
Somewhere between being frozen in ice with your head sticking out and being chewed on by Satan for all eternity. Doesn’t sound fun at all.
Likely balking at conviction because, to be fair, the lady’s as crazy as you can get. A nice lifelong stay in an institution for the criminally insane would be appropriate but I don’t know if those are a thing anymore.
I’m torn between two alternatives. Life at tax payer expense or the more immediate solution.
She murdered her three children! Somehow that takes precedence in my mind.
The standard for “not guilty by reason of insaniity” is that you are so bugfuck nuts you did not realize what you were doing at all. So to get off under that standard, she would have to convince the jury she did not realize she was strangling her children one after the other.
The standard is not “Meh, I thought it was justifiable” or “I just couldn’t help myself”.
It was premeditated. She looked at Google maps to figure out how long her husband would be out of the house running errands.
Death penalty.
LOL the doom-mongers have gone from whining about “fast fashion” to “ultra-fast fashion”.
https://retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/apparel-fashion/france-takes-aim-at-ultra-fast-fashion-with-new-levy/133677117
And now for something completely different: The Fourth Tower of Inverness.
Available in its completeness here, on YouTube. It’s better episode by episode, but that seems to require buying the CD set. Pause is your friend.
Wonderful late 70s weirdness 😉
Share and enjoy!
Looks as if it’s been helpfully divided into chapters, which are still multiple 7-minute episodes each but more “bite-sized” than tackling the entire 7+ hour series. Thanks!
Yeah, it’s not something to be swallowed whole. Very funny throughout, and better, imnsho, than the successor serials.
It’s ‘just a jump to the left, then a step to the right’ up from the older Chicken Man and Tooth Fairy radio serials of earlier times.
I have all 3 on CD, and used ‘Dr. Nelson C. Armadingo and Nurse Durkin’ as one of my on-line pseudonyms way back when.
The cast loses it at “Hail, fair bird!” midway through; a favorite bit for me lol
So while shopping for stuff to add to my eggs to make a boring commonplace breakfast (cheddar chicken scramble) I stumbled on to the oddest cross-promotion. They are selling a limited edition Hello Kitty SPAM. The back of the container had a recipe for spam sushi. Still doesn’t help me understand why these brands came together.
GT suggested we be on the lookout for pumpkin spice spam (😱), which is one of the most horrifying things I’ve heard recently.
When I want an overly salty and gelatinous meat product Spam’s my go to, no doubt.
You sound jealous.
It’s the texture that gets me: the uncanny valley of meat.
Try grilled SPAM and Cheese sandwiches. Cut it into thin sticks, put it between the two slices of cheese, grill as normal.
I bought my first can in decades a while back and never opened it. Tossed it when I moved recently – it was expired (!) anyway.
Hormel’s response as to whether spam in the can was that it remains edible as long as the can is still sealed, but will lose it’s flavor after five years.
GM 🙂
Subaru!!! 😃
AMC 😏
And now you only eat guitars.
The first car I bought for myself (as opposed to inheriting from a parent) was an AMC Spirit hatchback. Eventually the hatch had to be propped up with an old ax handle the Rev. GT and I had found in the basement of our first apartment. (The rusty ax head had become a handy bookend. And no, we didn’t find any human remains down there.) I kept that car until gasoline started leaking onto the muffler. 😳
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That car was trying to turn you into a spirit. Good thing you exorcised it.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Gonna be a scorcher here in SW OH today. Hope it’s more temperate in WV.
More temperate, *and* more inbred!
Good morning to all my fellow and fellowette Glib friends!
Next 7 days forecast to be around the 80 mark. Watermelons will, hopefully, be ready about that time. Right size now but not ready for picking.
Cukes are over, tomatoes big and tasty now.
Eye doc appointment today. Then lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant. We don’t get out and about so much these days so we need to take advantage of the weather and the opportunity.
seize the day – enjoy the outing.
I know the eye doctor isn’t the best stop, but don’t let that part get you.
Mornin’
Morning.
“Jaime Pressly was allegedly asked to leave a swanky five-star hotel she was staying at after she ’caused a stir’ and ‘appeared to be under the influence’.
According to TMZ, the My Name Is Earl actress, 49, was at the Signia by Hilton San Jose last Thursday where she was allegedly seen ‘talking loudly on her phone’ while ‘dropping F-bombs and drinking alcohol’ at the bar in the hotel’s lobby.
The outlet reports that an onlooker complained to staff about Pressly’s behavior and that two security guards came over to investigate the situation.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16094173/Jaime-Pressly-hotel-bar-hilton-drinking.html
https://pagesix.com/2026/08/31/celebrity-news/jaime-pressly-kicked-out-of-california-hotel-after-alleged-disturbance/
Boot the “onlooker”.
There’s a title I’ve not heard in a long time.
96 episodes. Ouch, that hurts.
I never saw it. Too bad – I like Jason Lee in a few things.
It was actually pretty good. Shame they cancelled the final season before it could be made.
Her glamour shots and her candid shots are very, umm, distinct.
Time does that.
I always thought she was the funniest actress playing “drunk” that I’d ever seen. Maybe she came by it honest.