The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, March 31, 2025
Memes that made me laugh 255
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
More next week.
Peter
6 comments:
Anonymous
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Related to your meatball picture, there is another IKEA maze.
Something close to the time travel outfit meme actually gets acted out in Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog". The harried period costume specialist/Historian is trying to prep folks going to WWII England, Victorian England, and Late Medieval England. The Time machine operator quits in a fit of pique and she then has to actually run the settings for the time machine. Its a level of chaos verging on that portrayed in I Love Lucy when she is in the candy factory.
H. Beam Piper wrote an excellent "crosstime" short story called "Police Operation", about a cop from an alternate universe dropped into late-1940s Pennsylvania to find an alien smuggler.
The cop was posing as a hunter, and got questioned by some hunters who were curious about his rifle. He passed it off as a custom job from Europe, but angrily confronted his superiors about it later. A 1937 Sharps in .235 Ultraspeed-Express, from a timeline where the South didn't lose the Second Civil War. The prop department goofed on that one...
Like L. Neil Smith, Piper was a gunsmith as well as an SF writer, and interesting gun stuff was common in his stories.
Re: The disabled vet tag. If I saw that in a parking lot somewhere I think I would stand by his vehicle until his return, in the rain, snow or hurricane to shake his hand. Brilliant. Thank you, all of you for your service.
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Related to your meatball picture, there is another IKEA maze.
Steve
This was a good week for memes!
After what happened to their predecessors, my fitted sheets behave. Mostly.
Something close to the time travel outfit meme actually gets acted out in Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog". The harried period costume specialist/Historian is trying to prep folks going to WWII England, Victorian England, and Late Medieval England. The Time machine operator quits in a fit of pique and she then has to actually run the settings for the time machine. Its a level of chaos verging on that portrayed in I Love Lucy when she is in the candy factory.
H. Beam Piper wrote an excellent "crosstime" short story called "Police Operation", about a cop from an alternate universe dropped into late-1940s Pennsylvania to find an alien smuggler.
The cop was posing as a hunter, and got questioned by some hunters who were curious about his rifle. He passed it off as a custom job from Europe, but angrily confronted his superiors about it later. A 1937 Sharps in .235 Ultraspeed-Express, from a timeline where the South didn't lose the Second Civil War. The prop department goofed on that one...
Like L. Neil Smith, Piper was a gunsmith as well as an SF writer, and interesting gun stuff was common in his stories.
Soylent Green Helper.
For when you have unexpected extra guests.
Re: The disabled vet tag. If I saw that in a parking lot somewhere I think I would stand by his vehicle until his return, in the rain, snow or hurricane to shake his hand. Brilliant. Thank you, all of you for your service.
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