Zander’s look says it all: What the hell have you done now??
You’ll see below the fold:
The duckings have landed
They are unnamed and adorable
Bixby has decided he’s the daddy
There is video and more photos at this link.
They tucker themselves out and sleep in a little heart shape:
Bonus Maddie and Mabel enjoying the last snowstorm:
So here’s the caveat. I’ll keep you updated, but you cannot get ATTACHED. My record with raising baby ducks to adulthood is about 50/50. I’m willing to risk my heart, but not willing to risk yours unless you understand our odds. I’m not even going to name them until they are a few weeks old. I do not know if they are girls or boys…we’ll figure it out as they get a bit older. There are ways ?
Respite open thread
schrodingers_cat
Adorable. Where did you find them?
Barbara
Fingers crossed for your ducklings. So darling.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Zander’s coat and color is stunning. He looks like the MGM lion — Rrrrrr
TomatoQueen
Oh the waddlers! What if they imprint on Xander? Who looks….nonplussed.
NotMax
This is what happens when one browses with Duck Duck Go exclusively.
;)
J.
Love your cat. So what are you, a fairy duck mother? Do people just leave animals on your doorstep? ???
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Lucky sev7n
TaMara (HFG)
@schrodingers_cat: The local farm store – sweet people there who are very knowledgable about their poultry, which is how I got two – they convinced me it’s better for their mental health to grow up as a pair.
cain
Woooot! I called it – I told you there would be new ducks. Did you call one of them Agnes as I predicted?????!
Also, we might need some respite from all the damn postings today. Front pagers have been on it today. Must be a thursday.
TaMara (HFG)
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Right?! And he just gets more impressive with age.
MagdaInBlack
OMG, I love them. (And Zanders pretty handsome too.)
My husband brought home our first pair of ducks, and pair of geese, in a 6-pack cooler. He was working for a small town feed/grain/fertilizer company, and they were the local ” baby chick” store in the spring.
Enjoy ❤️
NotMax
@cain
“I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
– Arthur Dent
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Dorothy A. Winsor
The ducklings are cute and Xander is leonine, but Bixby is adorable
Mary G
SO FREAKING CUTE, can’t decide what’s cuter, but I do love Daddy Bixby, and the little heart-shaped sleeping position.
Here are two buildings whose architect should be tarred and feathered.
People are going way too far in their dedication to internet trolling.
Ken
Nonplussed is better than hungry. Dogs are usually OK, once their human makes it clear these are not dinner. Do cats manage to learn that?
TaMara (HFG)
@MagdaInBlack: I laughed because these guys came in a box that looked suspiciously like the fried chicken container from the local grocer.
TaMara (HFG)
I forgot to mention, this is all because of Penelope Pearl – I missed her so much, I knew I needed to bring in some Pekins to the yard…they are just a special kind of duck.
PsiFighter37
Not exactly a total respite, but came across on Twitter that Meteor Blades over at dKos is retiring. Read Markos’ post, and yeah – it is hard to believe that the GOS has been around for almost 20 years. That probably means Markos himself is no longer a youngish-looking dude any longer. I saw a picture of his first son – who I remember seeing photos of as a cute little toddler – all grown up and going off to the National Guard. The Internet is an easy way to really measure just how old someone can feel.
raven
We just finished “It’s A Sin” about AIDS in London in the 80’s. Intense series.
Keith P.
Just finished “Coming 2 America”. It was OK. Really unnecessary, and more about letting a bunch of current actors play with it. If you can get past the first 10 minutes (which is ALL callbacks), it’s OK. The cameos got out-of-hand, though….you literally had at one point En Vogue get interrupted by Salt n Peppa get interrupted by Glady Knight (with Morgan Freeman emcee’ing. And they even let John Legend cover “Queen to Be” at the end for no apparent reason other than he’s famous and wanted in on the sequel too. But the core story was there….it just needed a better editor.
PsiFighter37
@Keith P.: Even from the synopsis, I still don’t really get it. The gist seems to be that Eddie Murphy’s character has an illegitimate child from his wild times in NYC in the first movie. But it seemed quite clear in the first movie that he was inept at that. If anything, Arsenio Hall’s character seemed more likely to end up with a bastard child.
I may watch it for nostalgia, but almost all of these movie sequels, done decades after the fact, turn out way worse than the original. The only one I think was better right off was Blade Runner 2049 vs. the original.
cain
@J.:
she’s just a quack. ::ducks::
cain
@PsiFighter37:
Heck I was in my early 30s when I started reading this blog, now I’m in my early 50s. :-) So yep, 25 years or so have passed.
Keith P.
@PsiFighter37: They do an OK job covering how the kid was conceived (along with some decent anti-aging). The main problems were that there were just so many damn callbacks to the first movie, like they went into it with a list of stuff from the first movie they had to do again. And they had another list of Eddie Murphy’s friends that all wanted to be in the movie, so the movie was constantly cramming cameos into it. The core story was pretty good, and there was a lot of good stuff in there, but damn, that film needed a better editor willing to save more of that shit for Blu-Ray extras.
CaseyL
Babies!! Adorable yellow fluff babies!!
What could be more springlike than a pair of baby ducks?
Two cautionary notes that you probably already know:
I remember reading somewhere you need to be careful letting them get wet too young, because their oil glands aren’t working right away and/or they lack the grooming ability to work the oils through their feathers.
Also Pekins are apparently bred to put weight on very quickly, and that can led to fatal health problems while they’re still rather young. You need to be vigilant about weight gain and potential fatty organ issues. Keep them on a light diet, apparently. (Wonder if that’s what happened to Penelope Pearl?)
TomatoQueen
@Ken:
Zander did.
NotMax
@cain
50s? The younger set must marvel that cain remains able.
;)
TaMara (HFG)
@CaseyL: I bought specialized baby duck food to keep them from gaining too fast. And yes, since Penelope was about 2 months old when I rescued her, I’m not sure how she was raised.
BTW, you try keeping ducks dry, LOL. I’d read the same thing, but it’s impossible, any water and they are covered in it – we’ve compromised with very dry bedding and a heating pad when they are done splashing in the water. ?♀️
It’s more important that they are able to keep their nostrils clean of food (by dunking their head in water) than to keep dry, IMO.
TaMara (HFG)
@Ken: Mine do – they’ve been duck friendly since Maddie and Mabel arrived. The dogs, cats and ducks all hang in the backyard. When they had to spend the weekend in the bathroom, the ducks visited them regularly.
So far with the babies, they peek their heads in (when Bixby isn’t chasing them off, LOL) and then go about their business.
That being said, the ducklings are secured whenever I’m not around, because animals are unpredictable.
Amir Khalid
A song came to mind.
What will you do if one of the ducklings turns out to be a drakeling?
Benw
Thanks TaMara, I just let out a deep breath. Fingers crossed for the chicks. Xander is awesome, and Bixby is adorbs
TaMara (HFG)
@Amir Khalid: Or worse, both! We’ll cope…
Dan B
@raven: I’m curious about ‘It’s a Sin’ because I lived through that. I’ve got memories of friends, strangers I helped, and former lovers in many stages of suffering and dying. It was so horribly messy, seldom as heroic or as angelic as one would hope, or Hollywood would ever write. It’s probably why the ache lives, morphs, and leaps out of dark shadows in bright moments.
I usually have corrections and criticisms of LGBTQ movies and TV but watch enraptured because feeling visible and not shunned for a few minutes while the room is dark and the screen glowing bright is all too rare.
Intense can take many shapes. What is this one?
raven
@Amir Khalid: Have you heard of Ted Lasso yet?
PaulWartenberg
THEY HAD BABIES???
HumboldtBlue
Daddy shaved, babies did not like.
PsiFighter37
@cain: It is kind of crazy. I started reading dKos in high school, but gave it up on a regular basis around 2009/2010 (I think the silly litmus tests around the ACA at that time drove me a bit nuts). Markos was just a baby face then, even if he was in his early 30s. He’s gotta be pushing 50 now, which is kind of nuts.
The Pale Scot
Respite thread, Kermit YAaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
Debbie Harry on the Muppet Show.
Full show, shitty quality https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sitti
The ending does has Debbie joining the Frog Scouts
Debbie’s duet with Kermit the Frog on “Rainbow Connection”
Debbie Harry & The Muppet Band – One Way or Another Dodging Ogres, et
I’ve never seen a guest not having a blast on the Muppet Show
zhena gogolia
@TaMara (HFG):
They are so adorable. I love the video.
raven
@Dan B: Well I have to admit that I was pretty unknowledgeable at the time. One thing that struck me about this was how the characters ignored, and even ridiculed, information as the spread started. It reminded me of the current situation in terms of folks just denying the whole thing as a hoax. For me the cast did a great job of portraying the excitement they felt when newly liberated in the big city and the subsequent tragedies were made even more poignant. The mother of one of the main characters is a horrible person and that IS really intense. All the while there is love and care shown so I give it two thumbs up but I’m just an old straight dude.
eta As an Athens Ga boy having “Everybody Hurts” over the closing credits was good.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Cute ducklings!
Gin & Tonic
I hesitate to ask, and possibly to spoil the respite of others, but what’s up with Mr. Potato Head? Why is the topic hot now? I truly know nothing.
Well, I do know one thing, and nobody I’ve told this to IRL believes me, but the Potato Head toy in its original form was a collection of face parts – noses, ears, lips, whatnot – but the user supplied the potato. A real potato, and you stuck these things into it.
The Pale Scot
@cain:
Seems so
cain
@The Pale Scot:
I had to sing along to the Rainbow Connection one – that was my childhood right there. I don’t remember Debbie on there – but at the time I probably didn’t know who she was anyways. I think I only knew a few of the artists like Kenny Rogers.
Debbie definitely showing off what seems like possible Scandinavian roots there – :-)
Steeplejack
@PsiFighter37:
Markos is 49.
Dan B
@Benw: Seconded, or is it “segundoed” at present?
We’ve got two rescue feral cats who are such different personalities but have lots of interest, skills, and time to make their Hoomins understand their duties, and their lowly status – I mean place, and duties.
I have a little terror…errr…cutie singing for his dinner. It’s time to lock him in and lock the rumored Cougar, rumored* feral cat dining beast, out.
*Huge paw prints in the snow- the size of a man’s outstretched hands!
CaseyL
@Mary G: That Boston house… I guess they do things very differently in Beantown!
Maybe the… very open-concept bathroom is meant to be ornamental. An ironic take on Marcel Duchamp’s “ready-mades.”
(There’s also an obviously bricked-in wall separating that strange bathroom from the living room. I wonder if it used to have a normal door, though why it has none at all now is a question I would love to ask the realtor.)
wombat probability cloud
Thank you, and just wanted to say that the color of the ducklings is beautiful, and I wish them well.
dmsilev
@Gin & Tonic: Hasbro decided that the overall line of toys would just be ‘Potatohead’, while the individual …potatoes would still be Mr. and Mrs. Conservatives lost their shit about the first part, something about how transgender root vegetables were an abomination unto the Lord.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
I remember the original potato Head.
Hasbro made the decision to call the general toy Potato Head because they have both a Mr. and a Mrs. and that constitutes another egregious crime done under the auspices of cancel culture. They canceled Mr. Potato Head.
debbie
They are little cuties. Have Mabel and Maddie accepted them?
Amir Khalid
@raven:
No. I don’t have Apple TV. The premise of the show doesn’t make sense to me: no EPL club would hire a coach who only knew American football. That would be like the 49ers hiring a basketball coach. I can see the banal fish-out-of-water humour coming from miles away.
Benw
@Dan B: that’s intense!
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Short version: Hasbro degenderized Mr. Potato Head—sort of—and the RWNJs went nuts.
raven
@Amir Khalid: Absolutely, a woman gets control of the team in a divorce and she sets out to ruin it by hiring a guy who knows nothing. It’s sort of like the Mouse That Roared or the Producers and it’s just fun
It garnered a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy but I bet you knew that.
cain
@PsiFighter37:
The left is all about litmus tests.. it drives me crazy. It’s like divorced from reality – we have replaced ACA with M4A litmus test.
I get that we need great health care, and I’m all for it, but we can only get there incrementally not in a revolutionary way. Do that in the states. Oregon for instance is a pretty good place to try shit out – we seem to revel in doing experimental things.
jame
I really, really hope that the ducklings are both female, because male ducks are just awful around female ducks.
cain
@Steeplejack:
RWNJ shoudl think about what it is about the market and the data they’ve collected that said that this is something they should do. From a market perspective they don’t matter they are too small of a demographic. That should scare the shit out of them.
cain
@jame:
What species exist where males aren’t shitty to females other than say black widows.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
It’s actually pretty funny. A trophy wife gets ownership of the football club in her divorce from a mogul, and because he loves it she determines to drive it into the ground. Hence the hiring of Ted Lasso. There is a bit of “fish out water” humor, but there is a lot more to it than that.
Gin & Tonic
@cain: Doesn’t the female praying mantis bite off the head of the male after he is done mating? I’m too lazy to look it up.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: Thanks to all who responded. So this is as stupid as all the other RWNJ freak-outs.
TaMara (HFG)
@jame:
@cain:
I hate to break it to you, but without a male around, the females are equally oversexed and I still have to keep an eye out to make sure not too much damage is being done.
Kayla Rudbek
All right, a respite thread so I can talk knitting to other jackal knitters! So I have yarn to knit one of those Icelandic-style sweaters, main color white and then accent colors of garnet red and black heather, which was all they had in stock at the duty-free store at Reykjavik Airport a few years ago (see my Ravelry account for current sweater in progress; and then some of the other patterns that I may use instead are in my queue). I’ve decided that I want to add on at least one more color, and I am trying to decide what accent color(s) I want. Right now I’m thinking about adding in two different shades of blue. Handknitting.com seems to have the best color selection right now.
Any suggestions?
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Well, you knew that going in.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
Wait until you hear about Dr. Seuss.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Ted Lasso in action.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: Right, but I didn’t know the details. Somehow it hasn’t been big news here in Hasbro’s home state.
The Pale Scot
@cain:
My favorite
Johnny Cash ft The Muppets – Ghost Riders in the Sky
Kristine
Baby ducks!
Bixby is so sweet.
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
My understanding is, she decapitates the male before mating, not after. The male’s headless body is apparently still able to mate, and the female doesn’t care that it will die soon afterwards.
CaseyL
@TaMara (HFG): !!!I didn’t know that about female ducks.Did see a wildlife show sometime back that claimed male ducks, while the ladies are off raising ducklings, go off in their own little bachelor groups and hump each other. Bonding, or dominance displays, or maybe both.
So the ladies, when they’re not partnered or parenting, do the same thing. Interesting.
Dan B
@raven: Thanks. I’m reminded if parallels between GRID / AIDS and Covid but there was some denial of AIDS but the vast majority, at least 90%, knew the dangers in a few months from its being labeled a cancer of gay men. The politics was imposed by people and organizations with unlimited cruelty and judgemental at their core. I felt they were from families where their fathers were brutal and mothers emotionally abusive and controlling.
I knew many gay men, lesbians, queers, and transsexual people who came from controlling and sadistic families. They cut off their families and their pasts. This was a much more prevalent theme than the excesdive exuberance and denial of reality that ‘It’s a Sin’ seems to portray. Some of the people from brutal backgrounds acted out but most strived for, and achieved, nicely boring lives.
And then, there were the families that met their gay children for the first time in hospital. I remember one who met us strangers – helpers with the dying – when their son, emaciated and gasping on a breathing tube. We heard they were extremely conservative but the looks on their faces pleaded for explanations from anyone who might be familiar. We knew they would not get suitable guidance from their pastor and would probably endure whispers I their rural Idaho community. Their son seemed like a guy who had found some gentle moments of warmth far from his place of birth. Who would tell them their son simply sought love and acceptance? Would they find people in their community who would seek to understand and support them despite the prejudices they had drunk for decades?
We said hello to these salt-of-the-earth people and left the room. It felt like abandoning children in a bleak wilderness.
I hope ‘It’s a Sin’ captured some of that feeling of being cast adrift with nothing on the horizon. There may be many people post-Covid that will suffer the same. Can we help somehow? How can we help some, and how much should we?
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: That’s, erm, an unusual form of foreplay.
debbie
@Steeplejack:
Though Dr. Seuss has distracted them a bit.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
Google tells me it’s after, sometimes during.
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
Let’s be grateful that it’s not a common practice in our species.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
So, I’ve recently started re-watching “Everybody Loves Raymond” and one thing I’ve noticed is that there are a lot of stereotypes in it.
Off the top of my head:
What is it with these types of sitcoms and the “wife is a nagging shrew” and “the incompetent, clueless man-child father”? I’ve noticed similar dynamics with other shows like Home Improvement. I guess it goes back to The Honeymooners. I’m guessing the “moron husband” archetype was originally meant to be a subversion of the older “husband knows best and wife is ditzy” of older sitcoms?
I’ve noticed these archetypes/stereotypes in other mediums, such as newspaper comics, too and they’re usually made by a certain age demographic.
There’s a subreddit called r/boomershumor that highlights this type of stuff. Examples:
In case you didn’t notice there’s a whole bunch of tropes/”jokes” that get used a lot:
Usually this stuff is dreadfully unfunny and outdated. I did some reading and found that a lot this “humor” is older than baby boomers and largely came from earlier generations (well, the “I hate my spouse” stuff anyway), such as their parents (Silents and GI Generation) and probably were a result of the fact that divorce was severely frowned upon (even legally difficult, particularly for women, to get until the 1970s or so) in the US and pretty much everywhere else. People were expected to marry young and stay together. As a result, a lot of people were trapped in miserable, toxic relationships and used jokes like the above to cope. A lot of men expected their wives to be mother figures and do everything for them too.
Mad Men has plenty of examples of that. Don and Betty draper are pretty miserable despite having a big house in the NYC suburbs and a family. Don’s a high-powered ad executive. Betty’s a stay-at home housewife and former model. One of the themes of Mad Men is basically the GI Generation/Silents beginning to a hit a wall in the 60s and 70s and realizing how desperately unhappy they were with the glossy, polished, consumer society (along with older, patriarchal values) built by men like Don Draper in the postwar world. The same can be said for their children, the baby boomers, who grew up in that culture. They married young too and felt the same stigma not to divorce. Hence all of the “I hate my spouse” jokes.
So, this turned into a big essay, but these comics and the origins of the associated tropes fascinated me and I had to share.
NotMax
@raven
Ever watch Club de Cuervos on Netflix? Also its short spin-off, The Ballad of Hugo Sánchez as amuse-bouche between seasons 3 and 4.
Dan B
@raven: Don’t discount yourself as just an ignorant / clueless straight guy. We cannot possibly understand the struggles and challenges of every community. Although our wonderful friends who are native American seem to suffer from being immigrants in their own land, refugees at home, suffering racism, communities ravaged by rampant drug abuse. Still they live with not knowing all the problems or the solutions.
The fact that you recognize that you have much to learn is golden. The fact you recognize the tragedy that was visited upon millions of neighbors near and far while the majority knew little is of immense worth.
If it brings doubt to the belief that Americans are the envy of the world because of their hard work and moral superiority, and if you doubt the mythos that humans are rational actors, you are ahead of the game. There is so much we are learning about how we behave and how to shape our behavior.
Gay men were the most lascivious and debauched. We turned symbolic action plus basic and very dull organizing when threatened with extermination by a virus and toxic politics into the foundation to some improbable victories. I hope the coming generation learn the lesson that there are many wrenching twists and turns. It seems you’ve been moved by a dramatization of one turn of the screw. I lived it, you recognized it. Is it because we each felt it in our own way?
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic: Snopes:
tl;dr – if she’s starving, she’ll eat him afterwards.
Cheers,
Scott.
Dan B
@dmsilev: I want these so-calked conservatives to become Dalits whose children are genitally ambiguous. There is little, or no, money for “gender reassignment” surgery at birth in India and in many other countries.
Do these so-called social conservatives love and nurture their children? Would they recognize that as a Dalit there is very little likelihood their ambiguous children would find acceptance or fulfilling lives in their America?
Another Scott
Very respite-y to these eyes: KrebsOnSecurity:
Where’s my tiny violin?? It’s around here somewhere!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Another Scott:
Oh no!
Anyway lol
gbbalto
@Amir Khalid: Saw that in a screen window at work. The male was already headless but enthusiasm was not diminished. Used to have great screen windows before they renovated – had 5 bats sleeping in my office window at one point.
NoraLenderbee
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Are you serious? You traced the origin of dumb/shrewish spouse jokes and mother-in-law humor to the baby boomers? My god, have you ever read anything from before 1900?
The Pale Scot
@cain:
So Cool
All I got is Romper Room and Wonderama memories
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NoraLenderbee:
From my comment:
This stuff is centuries old tbh. These attitudes are less common today among younger generations than older ones, mostly because of more liberal values.
Steeplejack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
They are clichés; they provide structure and they sell. You yourself said: “Everybody is a toxic asshole to each other (not a bad thing as it’s honestly hilarious).” They provide a convenient, no-brainer delivery system for easy jokes that people can laugh at without having to think about them. And it’s not a “boomer” thing. The clichés have been around forever. Look at movies (and comic strips) from the ’30s, or even silent movies from the ’10s and ’20s. And the clichés were old then.
And they’re still around, just toned down or hipsterized. Take a sitcom like Black-ish or Modern Family. A lot of those tropes are still around.
I hated Everybody Loves Raymond because I hate all sitcoms where the main character has an open door that any neighbor or relative can crash through at any time. Just once I wanted Ray’s mom to burst in and find him balls deep in Debra’s ass on the couch.
Kelly
Respite? I had a great day out yesterday. Kayaked our usual day trip on the North Santiam below Mill City for the first time since the Beachie Fire in September. The North Santiam is at the southern edge of the Beachie Fire. The scenery is much better than I feared. About 10% to 20% of the river bank burned hard with 90% tree mortality. Most of the north bank had a light burn that kept low only burning grass and brush. Similar for a mile or two on the south bank. Around 3 dozen riverfront homes burned. The burnt patches on the surrounding ridges look a lot like the clear cuts I’m used to. A lot of singed forest near the river but fire mostly stayed low consuming grass and brush. Unfortunately two of the worst burned places are Fishermen’s Bend Park and North Santiam Park. Lovely places that are usually busy. The best public access to this section of the river. No idea if they’ll reopen this summer.
Steeplejack
@Another Scott:
Great news!
cain
I’m well aware what happens in a community of females when you drop a male in there. The dynamic changes quite a bit. There is something about the presence of a male. Even if they are toxic assholes.
cain
@The Pale Scot:
lol -JFC – that confederate flag sharing space with the U.S. flag!! :D
cain
@Amir Khalid:
@Amir Khalid:
He clearly deserves it :)
Steeplejack
@Kayla Rudbek:
I looked at that Handknitting page, and I like your idea to use blue. I’d go for row 3, second from right; and row 6, first on right.
NotMax
@
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Tropes that extend back further than the written word.
@Steeplejack
Gotta set aside some stuff as enticement to purchase the DVD boxed set, don’tcha know.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Steeplejack:
Oh I get that a lot of this stuff is super old in origin. I didn’t mean to imply that baby boomers invented them, but it sure does seem some (emphasis on some) baby boomers perpetuate these tired, cliched, unfunny jokes. I suppose I wanted to analyze why and they are low-hanging fruit, easy jokes to make but I think society’s unenlightened views on marriage, gender roles, etc of the past plays a role in why these jokes were so common too.
LMAO! I could imagine a sanitized version of something like that happening on that show. It ran for 9 seasons so I’m sure something like it happened at some point
Fair point
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Praying Mantis?
She wanted his body so much, that she ate his brain….
cain
@Steeplejack:
My worry is what kind if hiliarity would ensue from there. My real fear is her getting horny and going back to screw her husband. But you know, Young Frankenstein has gotten laid before. :)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Steeplejack:
Also, ELR can be funny. Those comics I linked to aren’t imo, precisely because the tropes are cliched and tired. The art styles are often ugly too The chemistry between the actors and their comedic timing on ELR is what makes the show funny to me
Kayla Rudbek
@Steeplejack: hmm, my iPad must not be aligning the rows the same way as your browser. I was thinking colors 1700 and 1701 as a good combination.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Wouldn’t be surprised lol.
Major Major Major Major
Ducklings!!!!
Steeplejack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Just like some people in every generation perpetuate the tired clichés. Have you looked at, say, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for example? The characters aren’t married, and there are multiple male idiots, but a lot of the joke dynamics are exactly the same, just “hipsterized,” as I said before. Which makes them seem “new” and not tired.
Don’t fall prey to the cliché that “the boomers” (= “old people”) are responsible for creating and perpetuating every “bad” cultural trend. (Yes, you throttled back a bit, but that’s where you started.)
Steeplejack
@cain:
Everybody Does Raymond.
Steeplejack
@Kayla Rudbek:
(I have my browser window at less than full screen.) If I’m reading the JavaScript code right, I like 1042 and 5168.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Eyes and ears of the beholder. Plus the age one first encountered it*.
Tried watching a few times (mostly for Peter Boyle chewing scenery). Strictly in my book there was less chemistry displayed than in an average meth lab. This is not to in anyway denigrate your reaction. If you find/found it entertaining and funny, that’s cool. As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make a horse race.
*Variation of “The Golden Age of science fiction is 12.”
Another Scott
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): WARNING!! TIME SINK ALERT!!
TVTropes – Henpecked Husband
TVTropes – ELR
TVTropes – Everybody Hates Chris
etc.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
@Another Scott:
Nice. That’ll keep him busy for a while. And educated.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Well, it’s no Ozzie Does Harriet.
:)
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
True enough.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Oh that’s entirely fair. Peter Boyle is easily the best part of the show.
@Steeplejack:
Understood. Sorry.
@Another Scott:
Thanks!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Steeplejack:
Aw, don’t you like me being here? ; )
danielx
The cuteness! It burns! Evil, cruel, vicious ducklings!
Kayla Rudbek
@Steeplejack: sorry, I’m still confused. I’m pulling up the color numbers from a drop-down list on the page or from clicking on the little boxes/ovals.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Steeplejack: the cliches have been around forever -check out that old play “the taming of the shrew.” Hint: the playwright’s famous
Another Scott
@Kayla Rudbek: There’s at least one mistake/duplicate in the colors. 0304 Blue Violet D shows up in the zoom circle as being the same red color as its neighbor 0392 Rust D.
:-(
I’m a fan of blue. :-)
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay
Steeplejack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
No need to apologize. Just beware of narrow perspectives that fit too conveniently.
Steeplejack
@Kayla Rudbek:
I like 1402 (heaven blue) and 1701 (fjord blue). God, that interface sucks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Scott: I always wear blue.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Today’s APOD made me feel very inadequate as a photographer.
rikyrah
OMG ??
They are so cute ????
I have named them Harry and Meghan??
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
No shame! They’ve got you outgunned with equipment.
Yutsano
@rikyrah: ACCEPTED!
Also: DUCKIES!!!!!
something fabulous
@Mary G: HA! That second one! I feel like the bathroom is actually perfect for the person who lives alone with pets who can’t bear when you close the bathroom door :).
…But then! That inexplicable bricked-over… fireplace? Door? W, and I cannot stress this enough, TAF?
Thanks for sharing it!
something fabulous
And congrats on your babies! They are adorable!!!
SectionH
Finally the reveal! (Yes I was That Like on Twitter and I’ve been waiting very quietly… Best wishes as always for all your critters old and young!
JAFD
Good morning, jackals and jackalettes !
As Monday is International Women’s Day, WQXR and WQXR.org is doing 24 hours – midnight to midnight EST – of classical music by women composers.
To demonstrate my utterly plebian taste in music, a preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnM-nARUF8
Have great weekend, everyone.
JAFD
In case you haven’t seen it, there’s a yearly competition for newly minted PhDs to explain their research through interpretative dance
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/watch-winners-year-s-dance-your-phd-contest
Kayla Rudbek
@Steeplejack: this is probably a dead thread, but Modern Daily Knitting just dropped their latest field guide, which has five different patterns with the Lettlopi yarn, and they’ve added that yarn to their web store. I’ll be interested to see whether fibre space adds the Lettlopi to their inventory; they usually sell the MDK field guide, so maybe they’ll add the matching yarn? Although Looped up in Dupont Circle currently carries the Lettlopi and so fibre space may not be able to get that yarn (too geographically close to the current seller)
raven
@Dan B: I appreciate your comments even though the thread is long gone.
Steeplejack
@Kayla Rudbek:
Letting you know I saw this. Good luck on the search!
J R in WV
@TaMara (HFG):
Penelope was a fine duck, no wonder you miss her a lot.
Reminds me of when we would buy a flat of laying peeps in the spring, put them in a big tin washtub with a lamp clamped to the side in the kitchen. After a year as yard birds with owls and ‘coons and possums, another few dozen would keep us in free range eggs for the rest of the year.
We always lost a few, they’re really fragile at first. I’m sure your little yellow ducklings are also pretty fragile as well. Best of luck raising them up!
J R in WV
@Dan B:
If there are no claws on the tips of the toes, it is almost certainly a cougar / mountain lion — they do get really big if the pickin’s aren’t too slim.
We have them around the countryside in AZ around the mountains where we built our winter camp. Why I carry a larger pistol out west, I got stalked one evening in my cousin’s back yard, after a fire in the Chiricahua mountains drove all the game into the valley floor, and the lions followed the deer and antelope down, away from the fire. Scary!
J R in WV
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I was born in 1950, along with several of my cousins. My folks loved each other, and us kids, totally. One Aunt/Uncle obviously had issues, but stayed together and all of them ( 5 couples and my folks) loved their kids.
Not that some of us kids aren’t odd, growing up at the peak of the cold war was not easy… cousin B dates a woman, gets a restraining order, over and over, sad.
His sister is currently on husband, um, maybe sixth? She’s into horses totally, does a rescue for horses, hardest rescue, they’re so big. Their dad was an alcoholic, but current husband appears to be sticking.
Nothing like the Honeymooners, which offended me as a little kid when it was first run on Saturday evening TV. Just as all the other “comedy” shows with abusive relationships offend me today. Hate them all. Promulgate abusive relationships as humor? just nope!
J R in WV
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
A lot of that is the tech, of course. It is wonderful, though!
The Chilean observatories are amazing, some years back I browsed across a time-lapse video of a night’s observation work, the Dance of the Huge Telescopes… almost unbelievable!
6 or 8 different giant units of different sizes, swiveling and pointing…