I can’t NOT re-blog/re-post this:
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From time to time I submit ‘spare’ writing prompts to More Odds Than Ends. I did that again recently and one thing I suggested was picked up. I had suggested:
It tasted pink.
And Cedar Sanderson picked it up and ran with it:
As for the prompt, it has a sort of dual origin. Some time ago, Boone’s Farm had (amongst its others) an atrocity named “Tickle Pink” which $HOUSEMATE maintains tasted pink and it defied other description. A few years ago I tried a bottle of Western Son Prickly Pear vodka. Now, Western Son does very well. I rather like their lime vodka, and their plain is no slouch. At 10X distilled, it’s very, very good. The blueberry is also good, but let’s just say that I am not that big a fan of the flavor. Thus I can only conclude that the flavor of prickly pear (a cactus) is, indeed, PINK. FWIW, Western Son also does a gin, which is cucumber-forward like Hendrick’s, but not nearly as expensive.
But this Friday, look at the good Prof’s post of last Friday:
So instead of reading of my going on about this, that, or even the other, why not go have a look at a ‘poim’. Doggerel. Or maybe even catterel. Wait, no. Froggerel. I will say I have some responsibility (or blame) for the intro line regarding the fly.
LFAM: Letter From A Minotaur
There are a couple typos or omitted words. Those are my own flubs.
“To the average Western European, Australian or North American this sort of selection was normal but it was inconceivable to a Soviet. Let’s face it a homeless bum in San Francisco can wander into a local convenience store today and face a similar selection, so in that respect a bum in San Francisco is better off today than anyone in the Soviet Union 30 years ago.“
I lived through at least some of the Cold War. And this post confirms a good (bad) many things heard, despite claims of the “betters” (PTOOIE!) of how a Socialist(oid) Future was inevitable and Good (PTOOIE!!):
I’ve said it before and I will continue to say it because it is True: A Free Market Economy’s failure mode is SURPLUS. That, alone, puts it ahead of every other economic system ever devised by Man. ANY other system, EVERY other system… fails deadly (famine). Free Market fails safe (chintz). Given the choice? I’ll take a full stomach and some dubious taste in clothing and/or decor.
Consider: Disco might not be great, but it sure beats starving! Bring on the chintz!
I was going to just post a few highlights, but there were so many hits and so few misses that all I can really do is post the link and tell you to go look, and laugh:
That said, this needs some attention:
Only they would have solved it in under 30 minutes. Or certainly under 2 hours.
Go Read.
I’m getting very tired of hearing people mindless repeat that the future is “plant based foods” Or “The future is meat free” or whatever the unholy idiocy they keep spouting.
The idiots who are spilling milk in the UK grocery stores — thereby of course, raising the demand for milk, because people still have to feed their kids! — the idiots who sit in front of shelves blocking access to milk — yeah, I note that it only happens in places where people are too civilized to get three strong guys to come, lift them and toss them out of the store with enough force to make it hurt — and the idiots who assemble at DAVOS to plan how to stop animal husbandry are all of a piece: idiots.
They’re the kind of lack brain who might own farms, but has no clue how agriculture, let alone raising animals…
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Sarah’s post from a day or two ago sums up well how the Left manages to misinterpret things as those things simply do NOT work the way the Left expects their world to work. Simply, they have a model that used to work and haven’t fully recognized that the model no longer works. It’s NOT Reality that is broken, nor is it any Grand Conspiracy. It sort of explains the silliness of (what should be) obvious jokes getting “fact checked.”
It’s sort of reminiscent of the idea of a Logical, Mechanistic world… and then encountering the weirdness of the world running on Probabilities and having seemingly strange quantum effects.
Go read:
From the link:
I’ve noticed that current Democratic messaging on the upcoming election is:
A) We will not know the election results for a couple of days
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B) Republicans need to accept the results of the election
Given that just recently the Republicans have been very heavily favored to pummel the Democrats in this election, the latter of these would be rather confusing if not for the first.
So with this in mind, allow me to explain something to our “friends” across the aisle.
Your brain-dead, know-nothing, goldfish-like mob of quasi-gender pseudo-intellectuals might have the collective memory of a damp rock and be so credulous that you can rewrite their basic goals and desires at the drop of a hat. But pretty much every person of voting age remembers that we were consistently able to count election results to within the statistical margin on election day in the not too recent past. The closest we came to a genuine delay on knowing was Al Gore’s endless recount demands, wherein new Democrat ballots would suddenly and mysteriously appear from nowhere every time the same ballots were counted. Weird how that happens.
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