I had no idea that this was a thing. Here's a video clip of the 2023 Championships.
Is it a real sport? Let a participant tell us about it.
As I said, I'm completely unfamiliar with this "sport". However, a friend points out that after Texas cowhands are thrown by a longhorn bull in the arena, their hobbled gait as they stagger to their feet and try to get away from the bull sometimes resembles that of the hobby horse riders . . . with added sound effects, of course!
Peter
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This news is a couple of days old, but I only just came across it. After I stopped laughing, I thought I'd share it here for others who might not have heard it yet.
It's emerged that soon after entering the White House, somebody in the Administration decided that whenever Mrs. Biden entered an official function, she needed her own theme music, much as the President is greeted by "Hail To The Chief".
Somebody - presumably in the Marine Corps Band, which plays at the White House - came up with this "Fanfare for the First Lady".
Only recently did somebody note that the Fanfare sounds uncannily similar to the theme music for the 1960's TV comedy series "F Troop", about a hapless cavalry troop in the Old West that can't do anything right and gets everything wrong. See - or, rather, listen - for yourself.
Seems to me that the Fanfare is nothing more or less than a (very) thinly disguised rendition of the F Troop theme. Given the performance of the Biden administration, I daresay it's a pretty fair tribute to its accomplishments, too!
I wonder if the composer of the Fanfare was able to get his tongue out of his cheek after completing it . . . ?
Peter
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. There's a bumper crop in this edition, thanks to Independence Day generating a lot more memes than usual. Click any image for a larger view.
... according to Jennie Breeden and her "The Devil's Panties" comic strip. Click the image to be taken to a larger version at her Web page.
"Renewed our vows". Gigglesnort!
Peter
I guess this post could also be titled "Headline Of The Day":
A man was arrested Monday after he allegedly used fake IDs and information to make purchases at several St. Tammany Parish stores.
Later that same day, his believed accomplice was also arrested for using a fake ID to try and bond him out of jail.
One would think that, knowing your buddy had just been arrested over fake ID's, you might perhaps consider that the cops would be familiar with them and looking for more, wouldn't you?
Oh, well. Looks like itinerant criminals are now in the business of providing entertainment to otherwise bored cops in Louisiana!
Peter
In his usual famously polite, delicate, shy and retiring way, author and friend Larry Correia points out what's needed after the Chevron precedent was overturned. I've edited it for language (this being a family-friendly blog), but if you want the unexpurgated original, it's at the link.
In honor of today's argument about Chevron, here's my proposal for a new government agency that I wrote on here years ago. The Department of **** Your Job Security. :D
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We need somebody who actively HATES the government to run it.
If I was President (ha!) I would only create a single new executive branch entity. The Department of **** Your Job Security.
The DoFYJS would consist of surly auditors, and their only job would be to go into other government agencies to figure out -
A. do you ****ers do anything worth a ****?
B. which of you ****ers actually get **** done?
Then fire everyone else.
Right now it is pretty much impossible to fire government employees. The process is asinine. It is so bad that the worst government employees, who nobody else can stand, don’t get fired. They get PROMOTED. It’s easier, and then its somebody else’s problem.
But the DoFYJS don’t care. If your job is making tax payers fill out mandatory paperwork and then filing it somewhere nobody will ever read it? **** you. Gone. Clean out your desk.
We need to get rid of entire agencies. Gone. WTF does the Department of Education improve? NOTHING.
Gone. Fire them all. Sell the assets.
Any agency that survives this purge, move it out of DC to an area more appropriate to its mission. Do we need a Dept of Agriculture? Okay. Go to Kansas.
This will also cause all the DC/NOVA power monger set to resign so I don’t have to waste time firing them.
Oh, and right wing pet causes, you’re not safe. I worked for the Air Force. We all know that we could fire 1/3 of the GS employees tomorrow and the only noticeable difference would be more parking available on base.
Cut everything. We never do, because somebody might cry. Too bad. They’re called budget cuts because they’re supposed to hurt. Not budget tickles. **** you. Cut.
Shutting off the money faucet will also destroy the unholy alliance between gov/media/academia/tech.
Right now there is a revolving door, government job, university job, corporate board, think tank, the same crowd who goes to the same parties and went to the same schools and all that other incestuous **** just take turns in the different chairs.
Sell the ****ing chairs.
Every entity that gets tax money inevitably turns into a pig trough for these people. Cut it all off. All of these money faucets ALWAYS cause some kind of financial crisis later anyway.
See the student loan crisis caused by the government, here is free money, oh college has become expensive and useless, so now we need more government to solve it. You dummies get to pay for it. Have some inflation.
It’s all bullshit.
Quit pretending any of this makes sense.
The only way the leviathan shrinks is we elect people who actively hate the government to the government, and then only let them stay there long enough to **** the government without getting corrupted by it.
The instant you see the small government crusader you sent to DC going “Oh, well maybe an unholy alliance between the state and OmniGlobalMegaCorp to develop a mind control ray is a good thing” FIRE HIM.
So there you have it. That’s my platform if you elect me president. Fire ****ing everybody. And only give me one term. Thank you.
I think I've found my ideal candidate for November 2024 . . .
Peter
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I recently came across "18 Amazing Stories About Scotland! – The Not Always Right World Tour!". It's definitely giggle-worthy. Fun and enjoyable reading.
While browsing around the site, I also came across a series titled "Never Pick A Fight With An Old Scottish Woman":
Click over there and enjoy them. Not always safe for work, but mildly so.
Peter
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Thank you all for your kind wishes as I recover from surgery. Some of the comments about catheters, etc. reminded me of an incident with a friend that still makes me laugh whenever I think about it.
He had some sort of bladder problem that required him to be fitted with a catheter and a urine bag. So far, so good . . . until the first morning after he returned home. His twin daughters, aged about 5 or 6 at the time, came running into the bedroom and jumped on the bed to be with Mom and Dad - and one of them landed right on his (full) urine bag.
His comment: "Have you ever tried to pee backwards? It sheds a new and horrible light on the human condition!"
I had to sympathize, even while laughing my tochus off at his predicament!
Peter
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First prize to whoever dreamed up this position statement.
https://x.com/TheMistressRox/status/1801556745191350558
Brilliant!
Peter
According to Stephan Pastis, this might be it. Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the comic's Web page.
"Peace Dove" . . . one wonders whether that will end up being used as the name of the latest FPV attack drone!
Peter
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I couldn't help laughing at this headline.
Mechanic builds record-breaking 50mph wheelbarrow
Dylan Phillips ... has just set a Guinness World Record for the fastest wheelbarrow after clocking speeds of 52mph (84km/h) during Straightliners Speed Week 2024 at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire.
He built the motorised contraption in his shed in Crymych, Pembrokeshire, and, when push came to shovel, smashed the previous record of 46mph (74km/h).
The 38-year-old said it felt "fun and surreal".
There's more at the link.
Having observed several building sites where records might have been set for the world's slowest wheelbarrow (or wheelbarrow operator), this one definitely made me chortle. I wonder what builders' trades unions might have to say about that? And I wonder how tightly it can corner?
Peter
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I've been trying to upload this week's memes, but either Google Photos or Blogger has a problem, and won't transfer them from my image library to this blog post. I have no idea what's going on, but I'll try to figure it out. Meanwhile, please enjoy the other bloggers in the sidebar.
More later.
Peter
News headline yesterday:
Does that mean the Czech is in the Mail?
Peter
