Hurricane memes

They're funny because they're true ...

 

Aesop, about the Internets that you just won ...

... you can pick them up in the usual place.

There are only two things I have to add to the discussion of the Titan/Titanic disaster:

1. OceanGate seems not to have considered that their target customer had enough cash to sue them into oblivion if things went Tango Uniform.

2. OceanGate's investors did not consider what their liability would be if things went Tango Uniform.

The legal proceedings promise to be epic.  And yeah, I don't care that the release that their customers signed mentioned the word "death" three times.  Doesn't release them from liability for reckless endangerment and misrepresentation. 

UPDATE 23 JUNE 2023 19:42:  Big Country gets an honorable mention with this one:

He has more, so get over there.  He's of a similar mind of the legal predicament that OceanGate is in.

UPDATE 23 JUNE2024 20:04:  Miguel has an important pro-tip.

Meme-ento Mori

 That was awesome, ChatGPT.

More next week.

Meme-ento Mori

Well, memes are transitory, right?  And it's a better name than "Meme Monday" ...

That one is no joke.  When I was a kid in Maine in the '70s our Boy Scout troop would go winter camping.  In February.  In Maine.

I hope Glen Filthie gets out early for good behavior.

This is a true damn fact.

More next week.

Monday Memes

 What, too soon on that last one?

So Ken Starr is dead

It must be said ...

You're welcome.

I Meme to misbehave, Kyle Rittenhouse edition

I got these from a fellow Deplorable.

 

And now that we have the acquittal ...

Heh

Stolen from HMS Defiant, which you do read every day, don't you?  Thought so.

OK, this is just funny

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— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) December 26, 2019

This wins the Christmas Sweater contest

My local newspaper had a photo of this.  Heh.

You  can get one here.

The hits keep coming

The Beetles: During the week of 4 April 1964, we held twelve positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the top five.

Bill and Hillary: Those are rookie numbers.

Nerd memes

This cracks me up, since it's Meme to the power of Nerd squared.

It reminds me of the difference between the temperature scales (Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin), explained from a practical perspective:

Fahrenheit:

0° - You're cold.
100° - You're hot.

Celsius:

0° - You're cold.
100° - You're dead.

Kelvin:

0° - You're dead.
100° - You're dead.

Yeah, I'm a nerd

My first (and only) viral meme

Ten years ago today I posted what would become my only viral meme.  It was satirizing the ClimateGate shenanigans.

What happens when you run the Climate Models?

There's been a lot of analysis of the Hadley/CRU emails disclosed in the data leak. There's been less - but very interesting indeed - analysis of the source code disclosed in the leak.

That got me wondering: what happens when you run the code? I mean, the whole IPCC Thermageddon story is based on this code, right? Running the code might be interesting.

So I ran it. "Interesting"? Boy, Howdy.

The first thing that became obvious is that this is not at all a manual process. There is a lot of operator intervention, with the program asking you for all sorts of input. So much so, in fact, that it looks like a programmer at CRU took a shot at trying to automate the process:

I'm not interested in grants, and it looks like the editor of GRL has already been properly dealt with, so I selected the first option and forged ahead.

Unfortunately, the code looks to be very fragile, with poor error handling. I'm in the middle of stack dumps, but thought that these results so far were interesting enough to post. Here's the (admittedly limited) error report that I have so far.

Now that's a boating accident!

LOL

And +1 to Flugelman's comment.

A Public Service Announcement for the upcoming holidays

Just to be on the safe side, drink Maker's Mark or Four Roses.

What the heck is up with Joe Biden's eye?

This is weird:

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have a blood vessel burst in his left eye while participating in CNN's town hall on climate change.

A broken blood vessel in the eye, also known as a subconjuctival hemorrhage, can be caused by several things, including high blood pressure, bleeding disorders, blood thinners, or even excessive straining.

"Can be caused by several things"?  Hmmmm:

198 years of Florida Man

On this day in 1821, the Kingdom of Spain ceded Florida to the United States.  The rest is history.

Lee Moore - The Cat Came Back

Grumpy Cat is dead.  But since cats are said to have nine lives, we can hope that Grumpy Cat will be around for a long, long time.  You bet, there's a country song about that.

Lee Moore was Yankee born and bred, an Ohio boy.  He found himself in radio in West Virginia playing for coal miners in the 1930s before settling down for a long stint as a late night entertainer on WWVA AM in Wheeling.  WWVA could be heard across most of the eastern USA at the late night hours when Moore was on the air, and he built up a following among truckers and other night owls from Newfoundland to Bermuda.  Nighttime AM travels a long, long way.

Moore retired to Troy, New York and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000, three years after his death.  This was a song that he popularized (and which I remember from my youth).



The Cat Came Back (Songwriters: Harry S. Miller)

Well old Mr. Johnson had troubles all his own
He had an old yellow cat that wouldn't leave home
Tried everything he knew to do to get the cat to stay away
Even took him up to Canada and told him for to stay

But the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

Well they give a boy a dollar for to set the cat afloat
And he took him up the river in a sack and a boat
Well the fishin' it was fine till the news got around
That the boat was missing and the boy was drowned...

But the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

Well the farmer on the corner said he'd shoot him on sight
And he loaded up his gun full of rocks and dynamite
The gun went off, heard all over town
Little pieces of the man was all that they found...

But the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

Well they finally found a way this cat for to fix
They put him in an orange crate on Route 66
Come a ten ton truck with a twenty ton load
Scattered pieces of the orange crate all down the road...

But the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

Now they gave him to a man going up in the balloon
And they told him for to leave him with the man in the moon
Well the balloon got busted, back to earth it head,
And seven miles away they picked the man up dead...

But the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

Well they took him to the shop where the meat was ground
And they dropped him in the hopper when the butcher wasn't 'round
Well the cat disappeared with a blood-curdling shriek
And the town's meat tasted furry for a week...

But the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

Well, they took him to Cape Canaveral and they put him in a place
Shot him in a rocket going way out in space
Well they finally thought the cat was out of human reach
Next day they got a call from Miami Beach and...

And the cat came back, the very next day,
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
`Cause he wouldn't stay away

This song dates to 1895 (!) but was updated for the Space Age.  The song had nine lives as well, it seems.

Rest in Peace, Grumpy Cat

Found dead on May 16.  Cause of death is under investigation.

Joe Biden and the Democrat Party

This is pretty funny.

And Gillette can die screaming in a fire.