Early Morning Open Thread
In honor of Eostre, She Who May Not Actually Have Been Worshipped, I intend to eat a Godiva dark chocolate bar for breakfast later.
Daffodils are blooming on all four sides of the yard now, and one defiant knee-high lilac bush is starting to bloom six weeks ahead of its fellows. I’ve got some three dozen boutique tomato plants on order for mid-May, and it’s time to start pulling the mulch off the raised beds (not to mention looking for the sandals I never got to wear in all of last summer’s rain).
It was this, or Watership Down: “All the world will be your enemy, Prince of A Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you… Be cunning—full of tricks—and your people will never be destroyed.”
Pretty good philosophy for Democrats in general, actually…
(For our Antepodian correspondents: The Easter Bilby!)
April 4, 2010 4:03 am
Posted in: Clap Louder!, Open Thread
32 Comments
32 Responses
TenguPhule - April 4, 2010 | 4:50 am · Link
Tramatizing Children and their Parents for ages to come.
Yes Folks, not all cartoons are meant for kids!
Tattoosydney - April 4, 2010 | 4:54 am · Link
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Bilby!
Happy Zombie Carpenter Day to all.
Viva BrisVegas - April 4, 2010 | 4:55 am · Link
If only bilbys were as common as hares.
Hares have far too few enemies around here, so not much cunning is required.
mcd410x - April 4, 2010 | 4:57 am · Link
The Hare Club For Men guards the secret of Easter.
TenguPhule - April 4, 2010 | 5:06 am · Link
Seriously, I was not kidding about Watership not being for kids. Also not meant for anyone who doesn’t want some serious Grade A NIGHTMARE FUEL.
Welcome to Tvtropes. You will never leave.
Viva BrisVegas - April 4, 2010 | 5:10 am · Link
Are they the ones with their feet on backwards?
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal) - April 4, 2010 | 6:02 am · Link
Happy Chocolate Day to everyone out there. I too have faith, faith that we will be eating lots of chocolate before the day is out. Of this I am sure.
I was writing the above and all of the sudden I heard the sounds of frenzied kitty paws and claws trying to find purchase on the hardwood floor upstairs. I snuck upstairs and saw that Tommy had located his missing red tywrap and was in the middle of smacking it all around the dining room floor. That cat loves them damned tywraps enough that whenever he gets out in the garage he steals one for a toy. We keep finding them all over the house and I put them back for him to steal again later.
They’re cheap toys and help to keep him entertained. I let him play with the eight inch wraps because the smaller ones would be a choking hazard. Seeing him carry them like a bone between the kitchen and dining room is pretty cute. If you hold and wave the end of it around, or tickle his ears with the end of it, he goes absolutely nuts trying to get it from you. Tommy has snagged my hand only a couple of times but he seems to know when he does it and releases almost immediately. No real blood or scratches, more like tiny punctures. I can take it, entertaining Tommy is fun. :)
Other owners might not be so lucky so if you try this then consider yourself warned. Wear a glove.
tt crews - April 4, 2010 | 6:40 am · Link
Christos anesti!
geg6 - April 4, 2010 | 6:59 am · Link
Happy Zombie Day to all of BJ! I am in charge of the ham for the family celebration and chocolatefest. I will be interested to find out what outrageous bullshit my sister’s parish priest says during tha homily at Mass today and whether she has decided to become an Episcopalian because of it. She really has been tortured since the whole HCR thing that he railed against and now there has been no mention of the molestation scandal in any way. After all the revelations this week, she is holding out a last hope that he will have some words of apology, contrition, and condemnation. I think she is an eternal optimist myself. I hope she decides to switch. Episcopalians are pretty cool and progressive for a Christian denomination and I would much rather my little niece have them for moral examples than the church I grew up in and despise to this day. If I felt any need for religion in my life, I’d choose Episcopalian. Thankfully, I don’t feel the need.
fucen tarmal - April 4, 2010 | 7:04 am · Link
chocolate bunnies are good, but they do get kids thinking about eating bunnies and cementing the idea of eating critters=yum, the same way santa claus gets them prepped for a patriarchal god….
so i wonder, what do kids in peta families get for easter…chocolate asparagus? chocolate tofu? not chocolate covered mind you, solid chocolate in the shape of vegan foods…and if you were to make solid chocolate “tofu”, to replace the more familiar chocolate bunny, what shape would the tofu be? maybe a bunny? it would be cheaper.
BethanyAnne - April 4, 2010 | 7:24 am · Link
Heh. Asked Mom the joke from the previous thread. “Hey Mom, if baby Jesus sees his shadow today, it’s six more weeks of chocolate eggs, right?” She gave me the “I love all my children, even the heathen one” look :-)
jeffreyw - April 4, 2010 | 7:53 am · Link
gack! oh sweet jesus day bunny don’t run away so fast cause i ain’t had my coffee and my blurry eyes don’t focus ..focus? no foc y’all
Brick Oven Bill - April 4, 2010 | 8:06 am · Link
In honor of all that is good and true;
Speed equals distance divided by time;
Power equals force divided by time;
Work equals force times distance; and
The beauty and function of the female body;
Two things must be avoided by the Teabagger. These are:
1. Godiva chocolates; and
2. ZuZu Pets Hamsters.
scav - April 4, 2010 | 8:09 am · Link
Happy Hoppy Day! ohh, look! I found a coffee! hiding in plain sight.
R-Jud - April 4, 2010 | 8:17 am · Link
If you ever meet my sister-in-law and want to make her cry (why would you? she’s lovely, you meanie), all you have to do is sing “Bright Eyes” from Watership Down.
jeffreyw - April 4, 2010 | 8:18 am · Link
Whitehairedoldgrouch is impressed by the new lil Lumix camera’s zoom.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal) - April 4, 2010 | 8:20 am · Link
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
And ham, there will be ham. With fresh cut pineapple. And homemade spuds au gratin. Plus corn. Gotta have corn.
No cake though. The cake is a lie. Homemade dinner rolls? Definitely not a lie.
SiubhanDuinne - April 4, 2010 | 8:28 am · Link
Chocolate bilbys, hilarious! Wherever do you find these things!? (I know, I know. What I mean is, how do these things manage to come to your attention in the first place?)
Anne Laurie, I hope you’ll forgive my early-morning pedantry, but you got your i and e crossed—it’s antipodean, not antepodian
Looks like a beautiful sunny day here in ‘Lanna. I am blowing off all the TV shows and just listening to music until the NPR puzzler comes on. Happy Easter / Sunday / day to you all.
jeffreyw - April 4, 2010 | 8:34 am · Link
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demkat620 - April 4, 2010 | 8:41 am · Link
Happy Beaster Bunny Day! My daughter used to say that. Kids, huh?
Anyway, there will be ham and fresh green beans and homemade mashed potatoes. Crispy rolls and for desert, blueberries and whipped cream.
And then, back to work tomorrow. That’s the part that sucks.
demkat620 - April 4, 2010 | 8:47 am · Link
Wonder how poor John is feeling this morning. I do hope Tunch and Lily took care of him last night.
scav - April 4, 2010 | 8:50 am · Link
and on this day of chocolate, spare a thought for the poor archaeologists of the future, trying to understand our Lord and Savior by way of the hidden features on DVDs. Let alone trying to understand how the lagomorphs got them there without the proper security codes.
SiubhanDuinne - April 4, 2010 | 8:57 am · Link
@tt crews: Alithos anesti!
Linda Featheringill - April 4, 2010 | 8:57 am · Link
Good morning, everyone.
Happy Spring Holidays to all.
Gee – you guys are using big words this morning. Had to look up 3-4 different things. And so early!
Best wishes. May the antepodean lagomorph grace you with lots of zuzu pet hamsters! And chocolate.
bey - April 4, 2010 | 9:00 am · Link
No ham here. I made my first ever brisket. See smitten kitchen. I did the crockpottery yesterday and it smelled so good I could hardly stand it.
We are having it with rosemary roasted new potatos and asparagus. It’s only 7 and I can hardly wait for dinner.
demo woman - April 4, 2010 | 9:04 am · Link
Happy Easter!
John will probably have a few aspirin with the peeps and chocolate bunnies. I’m going to enjoy the sunshine and do some yard work before I have to cook.
Have a good day all.
scav - April 4, 2010 | 9:32 am · Link
had to go look up Chuch Slavonic for an e-mail. Found this and decided to add it to the words portion of this thread. I’m rather fond of Tlingit: Xristos Kuxwoo-digoot! Xegaa-kux Kuxwoo-digoot! although Kristus är uppstånden! Han är sannerligen uppstånden! is what first got me laughing. (Hey! Look who finally got out of bed!)
Svensker - April 4, 2010 | 9:33 am · Link
@ tt crews
Alithos anesti!
Maddy Prior is great. Have to be in the mood and doses have to be judicious, but in that window she is great.
Bad Horse's Filly - April 4, 2010 | 10:07 am · Link
Okay I just spent 10 minutes reading what the hell Bilbys are. BJ, always an education.
Pasquinade - April 4, 2010 | 11:00 am · Link
http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....m_the_dead
fucen tarmal - April 4, 2010 | 11:04 am · Link
ya know, get me in a room with the 1% of evangelical christians who DON’T believe jesus was the son of god.
i wanna party with those cowboys.
forgetaboutit!
Pasquinade - April 4, 2010 | 11:11 am · Link