Adam Sharp
@AdamCSharp
‘Let’s get this show on the road!’ from different languages:
5. Let’s pick up our hammers! (Bulgarian)
4. Let’s saddle the chickens! (German)
3. Let’s go bedbugs, the bed’s on fire! (Finnish)
2. On with the butter! (Icelandic)
1. Forward with the goat! (Flemish)
[ also]
A Lithuanian expression for telling someone to hurry up or you'll leave without them is traukinys šikančių nelaukia, which means ‘the train won’t wait for those who are shitting.’ A popular Estonian version is situ ruttu, karu tuleb, which means ‘shit faster, the bear is coming’
Probably . Now I have a memory of a sort of shit-on-shingle thing of Campbell's undiluted veg soup on Wonderbread toast.
although for a while there in the 'hood there were three bakeries within walking distance and rye bread was readily available.
We either got our bread from a bakery truck, or day old at the grocery store after we ran out of the surplus stuff.
One of the particularly po' folks things we'd eat was called "graveyard stew". Toasted and buttered white bread cut into four fingers, or tombstones, sprinkled with sugar and milk, eaten as a breakfast cereal.
Note: the butter was margarine provided by the gummint, as was the bread and powdered milk.
Sometimes we'd have rice instead, also gummint surplus.
Well hell, I thought it was just a name my mother gave to it to lend credibility or at least levity to our situation, but it's for real, y'all. http://recipecircus.com/recipes/marlaoh/SOUPS_STE…
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Brazil’s reclusive Bolsonaro has a skin infection, ‘cannot wear pants’
It begins with a question cribbed from Virgil’s Eclogues, ………….Delivered by Menalcas as a slight to his fellow shepherd Damœtas’ attempts at song, these lines are translated in the Loeb as: “Wasn’t it you, you dunce, that at the crossroads used to murder a sorry tune on a scrannel straw?” https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-tri…
So hired dudes to take down large nearly dead tree. They got the big grinder to chew-up the stump and motherfuck it grabbed and mutilated a desert kingsnake that had been living in it . I been here three years and never saw it out, and surprised there was any kind of snake still alive in the heart of town. So,….fuckshit! Why didn't it just crawl down one of the holes the rotted roots had made? fuckfuckfuck. Trying to keep hopeful that there wasn't just the one around here. Gotta be a small population around right? Right?
I come by most every day, looking for a new comment or post. It won't let me post pix, or start new threads, etc. It seems to be too stubborn to die, though.
Well, of sorts, I guess. Lot_49 and Glasspusher met up with Callyson, then Lot and Glass came up here for a day. We didn't get to do much, just a bit of visiting and lunch at a BBQ place of some repute nearby.
Glad I got to see the sun yesterday. My solar panels can't make much energy with the cloud cover. I've had to cancel three appointments in Reno/Carson City due to shit road conditions, too.
Some bullshit, but damn the rain is welcome.
Yesterday, it wouldn't accept my password. I thought my last thread of a connection had vanished. Still can't post, can't insert pix, but by fuck I can comment again!
They have bumped-up the chance of rain here in the next 24hrs., so I'm optimistic. Of course, after that the lows will dip to 38-40 so nt thrilled about that.
Twitpix usually work, I just figured it was an intense debate glitch.
Uncle Milburn at wonkette created a Mastodon "instance" that I signed up for. I don't know how it compares to the bird site. I don't do anything with it yet. https://wonkodon.com/web/timelines/public/local
I only got to twitter a few months before the '20 election, so that politics has dominated my timeline there, and only really looked at other stuff that people I followed tweeted.. Spending time at teh don exploring a little more.
I was scrolling through @editrix's contacts there, looking for some others from the past. No luck. Like Limy Lizzie, or Fakakta South. Did find Ken Layne.
@KenLayne@mastodon.social
I dunno, maybe? She's got her lists locked down, so the only friend I see is Weedlord. She and I weren't exactly BFFs here, so I don't want to barge in. Don't wanna be that guy.
I remember the name, but can't put a face to it.
I developed feelings for people whose faces I've never seen, and jebus, before I knew Weedlord was a gay man, I proposed!
Back when in winter in Patagonia AZ. [ 4000 ft ] lived in a travel trailer up on blocks with louvered windows that never quite closed and a 'furnace' that kept the bathroom warm but lost all heat to the rest of the place and just blew more cold air. . Much plastic, and yes, risked my life by turning the oven on and heat the place for little while. Better to just go the preserve that had a heated office.
I had an apartment for about 6 years with Jalousie windows. Plastic helped, a little.
I was on the ground floor. The upstairs unit had an open ceiling, no insulation. The heat would melt the bottom layer of the snow, then refreeze into a solid glacier of ice. The icicles were massive, and more than once they curled in and broke a louver or two. I started reloading some 12 gauge shells with #8 shot and rock salt. I'd go out in the middle of the night and blast them. It took a while for the salt to work its magic, but it really helped keep damage to a minimum. FREEDOOOM!
I took one of those 3 day cruises to Ensenada, and the Trailer Park Troubadours was the featured artist. It was a lot of fun, really. Cruise ships may be breeding grounds for every disease known to man, but there were no screaming babbies, so that was nice.
Howjadoodat?
Bats
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-hummingbird-fans…
Also bats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxcencNNBQ
Ooooooooooo. Useful skill
Wish I had it mastered.
Weather coming. Maybe even Biff will get some in a couple days.
Fun Fact I did not know:
History and Etymology for filibuster
Noun and Verb
Spanish filibustero, literally, freebooter
1: an irregular military adventurer
specifically : an American engaged in fomenting insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century
M-W Dictionary
Adam Sharp
@AdamCSharp
‘Let’s get this show on the road!’ from different languages:
5. Let’s pick up our hammers! (Bulgarian)
4. Let’s saddle the chickens! (German)
3. Let’s go bedbugs, the bed’s on fire! (Finnish)
2. On with the butter! (Icelandic)
1. Forward with the goat! (Flemish)
[ also]
A Lithuanian expression for telling someone to hurry up or you'll leave without them is traukinys šikančių nelaukia, which means ‘the train won’t wait for those who are shitting.’ A popular Estonian version is situ ruttu, karu tuleb, which means ‘shit faster, the bear is coming’
Someone here needs this, no doubt:
https://twitter.com/womensart1/status/15891468057…
Izzat one of them emotional support critters?
Maybe, for some definition of support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfRcUpoPl7w
GAH!
Rain this morning. Nice.
Focus on that rain.
Ebola outbreak in Uganda .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFeJJAQPiK4
Those were the days.
These are also days.
Bad days, but still.
Well, I haven't felt like vomiting blood and bile so far, but Kari Lake still lurks.
Cheer-up Biff, Leon Musky is gonna destroy Twitter, and also possibly Tesla. Though much of the crash is hilarious.
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Here ya go, ted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwHjLMLdnf8
OMG! One of my favorite lines in all of cinema!!
Classic.
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GODDAMMMMIT. The one I got in May was $500 total.
https://reverb.com/item/63193871-seagull-walnut-1…
Lunch?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/11/sand…
Tomato soup sandwich? I used to joke about soup sammiches. I didn't know they were real.
Hard times I guess.
Rye bread? Luxury!
Probably . Now I have a memory of a sort of shit-on-shingle thing of Campbell's undiluted veg soup on Wonderbread toast.
although for a while there in the 'hood there were three bakeries within walking distance and rye bread was readily available.
We either got our bread from a bakery truck, or day old at the grocery store after we ran out of the surplus stuff.
One of the particularly po' folks things we'd eat was called "graveyard stew". Toasted and buttered white bread cut into four fingers, or tombstones, sprinkled with sugar and milk, eaten as a breakfast cereal.
Note: the butter was margarine provided by the gummint, as was the bread and powdered milk.
Sometimes we'd have rice instead, also gummint surplus.
Well hell, I thought it was just a name my mother gave to it to lend credibility or at least levity to our situation, but it's for real, y'all. http://recipecircus.com/recipes/marlaoh/SOUPS_STE…
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Brazil’s reclusive Bolsonaro has a skin infection, ‘cannot wear pants’
Likely story.
Poseur.
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiGNRO0WYAAYxGw?format=jpg&name=small" width="500" height="500">
via Public Domain Review
Was looking through stuff and found this old pic. On a prescribed fire. Back of pic says "DAY 4 what the fuck am I eating?"
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiG-ThpUAAAHXNX?format=jpg&name=small" width="500" height="500">
I can't make the picture work any which way.
Change of plans– I have just been informed that a table is ready for me at Cracker Barrel in Denton, TX.
1000 miles.
I've only been to one of them, in Williams AZ. Might be closer?
Got KFC and beer instead.
Been craving their coleslaw lately. Damn it. Now I gotta go.
Yeah, toss the biscuits and potatoes.
Almost to the point of tossing the chicken, too.
Dern kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlA_ak1JnrI
Quite different from my early music education experiences.
Yeah, I think it's great they do this , but am sure that the kids do not come from poor families.
For what it's worth ($1500 according to them) they offer scholarships.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/school-o…
OK . Cool. But just since September.
Musta known I was gonna bitch at them.
via Roy Edroso and @lynchcartoons
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fi1oUuYWAAESoFP?format=jpg&name=small" width="400" height="400">
I was sorta reminded of Ms. Claridge on South Park:
https://media1.giphy.com/media/l2SpRRn4vv6CFcUQo/…
OT.
Rain?
We got a sprinkle overnight. And a 4.0 earthquake.
Heh. Just a sprinkle here now. Clouds look mean, but maybe bluffing.
No earthquake that I know of.
I woke up to actual real rain this morning. Very wet, from a standpoint of water.
More light drizzle.
Rain, I mean.
I doubt it's up to .5 but good enough
Another notable rain overnight. WTF even is this stuff?
My solar panels aren't producing shit.
Fungi?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fungi-t…
I knew that guy!
https://scorpion.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Fun_Guy
Someone here needs this also:
https://www.adamwallacavagedesign.com/
Did Robert Johnson read Virgil?
It begins with a question cribbed from Virgil’s Eclogues, ………….Delivered by Menalcas as a slight to his fellow shepherd Damœtas’ attempts at song, these lines are translated in the Loeb as: “Wasn’t it you, you dunce, that at the crossroads used to murder a sorry tune on a scrannel straw?”
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-tri…
Haz rain.
We got in the neighborhood of an inch. Big-time sn*w in the mountains, though.
Godddammittttttt!
So hired dudes to take down large nearly dead tree. They got the big grinder to chew-up the stump and motherfuck it grabbed and mutilated a desert kingsnake that had been living in it . I been here three years and never saw it out, and surprised there was any kind of snake still alive in the heart of town. So,….fuckshit! Why didn't it just crawl down one of the holes the rotted roots had made? fuckfuckfuck. Trying to keep hopeful that there wasn't just the one around here. Gotta be a small population around right? Right?
Awshit, sorry. Sneks usually boogie when they feel vibrations like that.
It was early on a cold morning so maybe just had shut down for the winter. Still, it shoulda been deeper in the ground.
FUCKSHIT.
So we gonna just let 'Ville get covered in sand?
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I come by most every day, looking for a new comment or post. It won't let me post pix, or start new threads, etc. It seems to be too stubborn to die, though.
So was there a wonk-meeting in SoCal?
ZD gonna stop in Tucson soon, so we may have a cuppa together at some point.
Well, of sorts, I guess. Lot_49 and Glasspusher met up with Callyson, then Lot and Glass came up here for a day. We didn't get to do much, just a bit of visiting and lunch at a BBQ place of some repute nearby.
Hey Biff!
You got a canoe, or maybe can build a raft?
Glad I got to see the sun yesterday. My solar panels can't make much energy with the cloud cover. I've had to cancel three appointments in Reno/Carson City due to shit road conditions, too.
Some bullshit, but damn the rain is welcome.
We've had over 8" of rain so far, which is like 4X average. 'course it all flows into the Owens River and heads down to AlterNewt. Use it wisely.
Has the 'ville joined the Choir Invisible?
WHOA!!!
Tried once again to put up a new post, with predictable results.
It seems that all of my comments from the last 11 months have the vanished. At least that's the way it appears to me on two different devices.
It's time to hit the trail my brothers…………..
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Yesterday, it wouldn't accept my password. I thought my last thread of a connection had vanished. Still can't post, can't insert pix, but by fuck I can comment again!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That would be nice. Close Read, too.
Wouldya check to see if there's still pizza under the couch?
I think so. I remember putting a slice there before I passed-out.
Wait. I vaguely remember a woodland or farm animal of some kind…….
They have bumped-up the chance of rain here in the next 24hrs., so I'm optimistic. Of course, after that the lows will dip to 38-40 so nt thrilled about that.
Also wind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ximAeHVIYq4
Truth.
Also , chance of rain diminishing rapidly .
Fuckers.
Yes! First flirted with an invasion to make it a slave state to balance CA becoming a free state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejgfnRvAOno
Better than the outro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc6EimQpFP8
I'm having a hard time justifying getting another one, but will keep at it.
Like, the one I have is great, but it is old. Fine for now, but gonna need fret job and new bridge eventually. That'll cost $300.
Did it say $300 yesterday? 'Cause it's 289 today.
Not gonna get it.
I was trying to spare Biff the twitter.
Also, soon I may be getting into an argument there over whether Mr Ed could dial a rotary phone.
eta: The topic seems to have been dropped. Whew.
Thanks, that worked.
Twitpix usually work, I just figured it was an intense debate glitch.
Uncle Milburn at wonkette created a Mastodon "instance" that I signed up for. I don't know how it compares to the bird site. I don't do anything with it yet.
https://wonkodon.com/web/timelines/public/local
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Will check out that mastodon thing.
I'm on Mastodon, at least nominally. I can't compare it to the bird site because well, y'all know my thoughts on that place.
@Biff52@wonkodon.com
I just signed-up yesterday.
@edwilk@mstdn.social.
ZD and Lot are also there.
Another blast from the past found on Mastodon, Weedlord Bonerhitler!
@thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social
I've got Lot, whar ZD?
@keithmorrisnm@urbanists.social
Thanks!
WHOA!!!!!!!!!
Mentioned it to Alter Newt, but he's kinda 'meh'.
I only got to twitter a few months before the '20 election, so that politics has dominated my timeline there, and only really looked at other stuff that people I followed tweeted.. Spending time at teh don exploring a little more.
I was scrolling through @editrix's contacts there, looking for some others from the past. No luck. Like Limy Lizzie, or Fakakta South. Did find Ken Layne.
@KenLayne@mastodon.social
Also weejee
@weejee@wonkodon.com
And Callyson
@AFinLA@wonkodon.com
Is this LL?
@Pineywoozle@masto.ai
I dunno, maybe? She's got her lists locked down, so the only friend I see is Weedlord. She and I weren't exactly BFFs here, so I don't want to barge in. Don't wanna be that guy.
Me neither. Couldn't understand why anyone was looking for her.
I have a theory, and it involves boobs.
My only crush was Becca's pal Lisa WInes.
I remember the name, but can't put a face to it.
I developed feelings for people whose faces I've never seen, and jebus, before I knew Weedlord was a gay man, I proposed!
I understand. He was on a hilarious roll there for a while.
Maybe Editrix could spin it off for like a dollar? I've got a dollar. I don't know shit about operating a website, though.
Yeah, Glass said you lived down there and he was gonna let you know he'd be in town. His wife had some corporate todo in Pasadena, I think.
Glad he was able to save it. Restaurant margins can be pretty thin as it is.
Too good for blue tarps?
Before I invested in double and triple pane windows, I'd cover them with plastic every winter. Visqueen FTW!
Back when in winter in Patagonia AZ. [ 4000 ft ] lived in a travel trailer up on blocks with louvered windows that never quite closed and a 'furnace' that kept the bathroom warm but lost all heat to the rest of the place and just blew more cold air. . Much plastic, and yes, risked my life by turning the oven on and heat the place for little while. Better to just go the preserve that had a heated office.
I had an apartment for about 6 years with Jalousie windows. Plastic helped, a little.
I was on the ground floor. The upstairs unit had an open ceiling, no insulation. The heat would melt the bottom layer of the snow, then refreeze into a solid glacier of ice. The icicles were massive, and more than once they curled in and broke a louver or two. I started reloading some 12 gauge shells with #8 shot and rock salt. I'd go out in the middle of the night and blast them. It took a while for the salt to work its magic, but it really helped keep damage to a minimum. FREEDOOOM!
Having that NGO job allowed me to upscale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4oYe7VYCpU
Ah yes, Cleveland. Roof snow melt onto gutters and freeze. Didn' have a shotgun, Had to reach-up with a steel rake and bang on them enough to crash.
Just don't actually look at the wiring.
oh man. booking that one.
I took one of those 3 day cruises to Ensenada, and the Trailer Park Troubadours was the featured artist. It was a lot of fun, really. Cruise ships may be breeding grounds for every disease known to man, but there were no screaming babbies, so that was nice.