Friday Night Open Thread

It’s your turn. Time for you to step up and take control.

It’s Friday Night Open Thread. What’s on your mind? Got a joke? A link? Something you just want to get off your chest? The floor is yours.

Who wants to start?

29 Comments

  1. And now: Miss Petulant Clark

    ♪♫

    When you’re Ellen and life is making you lonely
    You can always go.
    Don Town
    Millenials got worries, all the noise and the hurry
    Seem to help, I know.
    Don Town

    Just listen to the music of detractors in the city
    Finger on the Twitter, where the neocons are petty
    How can you lose?
    The rights are much righter there
    You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

    So go Don Town
    Things’ll be great when you’re
    Don Town
    “You’re Fired!” place for sure,
    Don Town
    Everything’s waiting for “Yuge.”

    Don’t hang around and let your problems surround you
    There are movie shmoes
    Don Town
    Maybe you know some little Mar-A-Lago
    Where they’re never close
    Don Town . . .

    ♫ ♪♫

  2. Hillary’s new slogan — On Ward Together — sounds very One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest-ish. Nurse Ratched doesn’t seem to have heard that her pal Big Indian is a fake.

  3. [Basil twists the radio knob, and hears Billy Joel …]

    ♪♫

    Oh, lie, lie, lie lie lie lie
    Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie…

    …And the witless are practicing politics
    As the businessmen literally get stoned
    And they’re chairing the DNC in their loneliness
    But it’s bitter when Dinkins’ alone.

    And politics turns to a carnivore
    And “microagressions”? I need a beer.
    And they all passed the bar
    And take bread from Val Jar
    And say, “Men? What are you doing here?”

    Lie, lie, lie lie lie lie
    Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie…

    ♪♫ ♪♫ ♪♫

  4. On a completely different subject, my house has been invaded by sugar ants. (Apparently, I’m just sweet or something.)

    No, really. The NW had a record wet six months and the ants have exploded all over Western Washington. The little Jihadis are terrorizing everyone! It’s on the news. (Same with rats, apparently, although they’re rumored to be migrating out of Seattle…)

    Every couple of hours, I go to war with electromagnetic vacuum weapons. But I can’t find how they’re infiltrating – very frustrating. The usual chemical weapons (Karo syrup with Borax) isn’t making a dent in their numbers. My next step is to use it as a WMD and ring the outside of the house with it and see if I can convince them to stay outside and die.

    I’m also considering nuking them. More on this as it develops.

    • “My next step is to use it as a WMD “

      An explosion of ants certainly call for a retaliatory explosion. Of ants.

      For what it’s worth, my understanding is that ants are technically unbeatable by humans.

      They can survive in soil and they can live in wood. So, unless your house is all 100% concrete or steel, there is a certain amount of inevitability to the ant situation. They do seem to be smart, though, and to detour around places where their scouts and workers get killed in unacceptable numbers.

        • There once was a man with crows,
          Who said that he knows what he knows;
          And as for towhees,
          Their comes and goees
          He said, “Well, that’s how it goes.”

          .

          There once was a man with plants
          That were fully infested with ants
          He took Rodneydill’s advice
          And slid on the ice
          After discarding his pants.

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