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, April 4, 2022
Memes that made me laugh 103
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
Interesting bit of tinfoil-wiggery about the new alopecia drug. (Hey! For extra tinfoil, observe that Chrome thinks "alopecia" should be spelled "Propecia".) I wonder if Pfizer will borrow the "Lightning Alopecia" song from the Goon Show for an advertising jingle...?
Heh. Male-variant Cinderella is not a new thing. Those stories have existed *in print* since at least mid-1800s... in folklore collections with notes on where the oral tradition was collected from, and not as single examples but as close variants in several locations, so actual origins for the oral folk story variant quite muddled but not new at the time.
Oh well. Strabo's Greek/Egyptian variant is the oldest on *surviving* record I believe, and in that one Rhodopis is female.
Brilliant. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteWow, there is a word to describe me cleaning the garage!
ReplyDeleteInteresting bit of tinfoil-wiggery about the new alopecia drug. (Hey! For extra tinfoil, observe that Chrome thinks "alopecia" should be spelled "Propecia".)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Pfizer will borrow the "Lightning Alopecia" song from the Goon Show for an advertising jingle...?
where can I buy the T-shirt
ReplyDeleteHeh. Male-variant Cinderella is not a new thing. Those stories have existed *in print* since at least mid-1800s... in folklore collections with notes on where the oral tradition was collected from, and not as single examples but as close variants in several locations, so actual origins for the oral folk story variant quite muddled but not new at the time.
ReplyDeleteOh well. Strabo's Greek/Egyptian variant is the oldest on *surviving* record I believe, and in that one Rhodopis is female.
Those Amazon boxes... the Porch Pirates would think they hit the motherlode....
ReplyDeletePeggy Lee sang I'M A WOMAN (W.O.M.A.N.) and she wasn't a Biologist either.
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