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I'm pretty sure Jarlsberg meant the small-m moron women, not the moronettes.

http://bit.ly/moron-women

I don't think the pool is supposed to be that color.

Vulgar Vocab eVoked

When I was maybe twelve, we were at the lake, skipping rocks. We were on a slope, with my step-brother uphill from me. He picks up a huge non-skipper, and allegedly misses the lake by several yards and lands the rock, flat on top of my head.

The words that came out of my mouth, uncontrolled, with adults nearby, surprised the heaven out of me, really.

I've spent the subsequent fifty years trying to get that under control. I do so pretty well in text communications, so don't get me started, fer fork's sake.

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Seeing old familiar handles online is cool, like when friends hit town this weekend, except virtual.

I never did find out what a "butt welded pipe fitting" was.

I've never seen it, but I think that's explained in the movie Human Centipede...?

http://instantrimshot.com/

I recuse myself.

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Talking about That Infamous Memorial Day ONT is discriminatory and triggering and uh whatzitcalled oh yeah nanoaggressive for those of us who weren't around then. I need a safe space free from experience-rank-pullers. And this ashtray. That's all I need...

http://instantrimshot.com/

Dear Penthouse, I never thought it would happen to me, but I encountered an entire race of harassable moronettes....

...then Maet shook me awake.

Oh.

I see Jim Treacher made my point about Stan Lee... in one concise sentence.

Must be time for webworker to go weblurker.

I know Stan Lee is 92 years old and one of the most successful men in the world, but if he really is that full of himself, it kind of spoils fot me anything he has to say.

Aw, in Stan's defense, you might've missed the point here? Being full of himself is Lee's shtick. (Warning: Original Merry Marvel Marching Society member)

Bombast and self-promotion are Stan's thing, and have been since the earliest days of the Marvel age and his "Stan's Soapbox" columns. Someone said, of all the characters he's created and written for, "Stan Lee" is his best creation. Face of Marvel. Cameos in almost all the movies.

I think he knows he's "just" a comic book writer.

But I may be prejudiced. I've always liked Stan, especially for what he did for comic books, in my yout'. I always appreciated his P.T. Barnum barker act, too, theatrically and commercially.

Decades ago, Milady and I and our three kids were walking out of the Chicago ComiCon by a side door far from the action, just as Stan Lee was walking in. He was clearly on his way to something, but he stopped to chat with us briefly. Relaxed, funny. Quite personable, but, most assuredly Stan Lee. Definitely on my short list of "meetings with great men."

Faith and trust are easy
When things are going well.
Faith is only tested
When things all go to hell.

Morning, Glories.

Piercello: "webworker, you okay?"

I do love this crowd. Thanks for asking, friend!

No, not entirely. It's problem time like it sounds. It's only material life crisis; prayers always welcome, also freely given.

Such a world!

Good night, Gracies. Maybe catch you on the morning post.

Big thoughts from a little guy hitting the sacramental wine before bedtime.

Big Guy knows what's needed, I absolutely trust that.

It's one of those axioms. If God is, God knows. Givens. That's #theology, regardless what I trust.

So, he said, belaboring to continue (theo)logically, if I lay my problems out before Him, any benefit would come from the experience of thinking things through in partnership with God; I'm not telling Him anything He doesn't already know.

So, knowing He knows, and that He knew from Before the Beginning of Beginnings, then, it behooves us to wait upon the Master Storyteller's Unwindings in all things, abiding in faithful patience with a sense of wonder. "Fear not." And all that. Even, "Be of good cheer." It's not just a good idea. It's the Son of God's command.

But...

But...

Sometimes it seems like He is all, like, "Eternal-destiny, y'know, man; it's covered. Don't worry 'bout the rise and fall of nations or the whole earth passing away thing."

While I'm all, like, "Yeah, but death and taxes, mortal life continuity, grandkids and stuff! About to hit a wall and would like to avoid it. Got any miracles in your bag, there, Supreme One? Hello, Dad? Hello?"

He gave us this time-space life to live, so it sort-of seems like it's up to us to keep reminding him regarding the Urgency of Time in our reckoning.

Know what I mean? Need help now. #twoweeks

Crazy.

Modern Madman's Plea

Help? Help?
Help us help!
Mommy Daddy Mommy Daddy!
Give us the wit and wisdom
to do what's before us now.
What you will.
Yay God.

School Decides Child Can Be Inspired by Jesus
Todd Starnes, Fox News
http://fxn.ws/1Rc8zkR

Somerset Academy issued a formal written apology to 12-year-old Mackenzie Fraiser late Friday for denying her the right to use a Bible verse in a class assignment.

School officials have now agreed to allow the sixth-grader to resubmit her original project, this time with her favorite Bible verse -- John 3:16 -- included....

h/t: Nickarama, Weasel Zippers

FenelonSpoke: "Ooooookay I didn't quite get the joke..."

That's probably to your credit! Mornin', FS.

anon a mouse: "Coffee is good this am..."

It's that Texas water.

(As long as you're not in one of the sulphurous areas.)

So, Supergirl tv series isn't supposed to premiere until November, but the premiere episode has been "bootlegged" to file-sharing sites. Since it carries no watermarks, some suspect it's an intentional release for promotional purposes.

Or because it's so bad.

So, we watched it last night. It's a mixed bag. From the same producers who created Arrow and Flash.

Spoilers, sort-of.

One thing I like is that they tried to get away from the Dark Knight heaviness that marks every other superduper movie or series in the last twenty-five years. They didn't entirely succeed. And in the process, they came dangerously close to the too-light-and-too-fluffy feeling of that SNL skit of a "Black Widow" movie when we see the girl with the power of a god fetching coffee for her publisher-boss, or getting tongue-tied meeting Superman's Pal.

Mostly, it was all too rushed. Origin on Krypton, arrival on earth, years with adopted parents, all disposed of in a few scenes. Meeting with wise ethnic mentor (JAMES Olson, not Jimmy, has turned black, like the Human Torch and Nick Fury - epidemic of revitiligo, I think). Decision to become a superhero after years of wanting to be "normal." Revealing her deepest secret to a geeky co-worker. Super-secret government MiB group. And setting up the battles for the season, a boatload of ugly super-baddies who hate her. Too much, too fast, too shallow.

Maybe these shows would work better as half-hours.

Did get a grin out of (the brief glimpse of) her earthly parents, played by Supergirl of the 1984 movie and Superman of Lois & Clark. (Dean didn't even get a line, though.) And the defense given for using SuperGirl instead of -Woman was an excellent slap in the face to language nazis.

As an old superhero comics fan, I'll be generous and give it three Aces out of five. Fluffy, not stuffy.

Bigby's: "32... that's completely unreadable..."

The text certainly was a mess of apparently computer-generated transcript. I didn't bother getting the video. Don't usually do vid in the a.m.

"Try to keep your blood pressure down because this dish shows you don't mind of the moon back."

I'm guessing the last word was "moonbat"...

Drudge tweets in response to passing trade bill unread:

"BOEHNER: We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."

c/o Hoft, Gateway Pundit
http://bit.ly/1RbZpVz

Well, no Vic up top today, let's see what the rest of the world thinks is news...

WSJ reporter email to Hillary: "Hill, can I ride on your lap to the White House?"

Daily Caller c/o Weasel Zippers http://bit.ly/1Fuvlzd

Ooookay... back to bed.

typo dynamofo: "What is the opposite of being Willowed?"

Vic'd?

Morning, Glories.

Muldoon: Meta-mattress imagery

A real-life princess and the pea?

"...We have spent the last fifty years mostly giving peace a chance. The result is that we are now at war with diffuse enemies who can (and do) strike us at their leisure, knowing that we lack the manly generative equipment to make the appropriate responses. ..."

- Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna
"Give War a Chance"
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/05/give-war-a-chance/