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Enco, how did that never occur to me? Go, go, go read Poe.

Loved his short stories as a kid. And a few of his poems like the one with Anabelle Lee if memory serves and it is better than the drive-through.

Jake,

I meant to use the name Poe, the author of “The Raven.”. I was imagining the words coming from a cynical, frazzled English Major student working in the drive-thru trying to hurry things along.

I would, however, use the term “Po” if I spoke Tagalog,

@Enco

I don’t know what it’s like to be you and vice versa. Sometimes, I don’t even know what it’s like to be me.

At the same time, I do wonder what it feels like to be this or that animal. I know my cat about as well as I know any person and sometimes I think we understand each other, sometimes we obviously don’t.

Unseen,

But recall the discussion of Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like Being A Bat?” In his What Does It All Mean?. You can’t just observe or infer what is like to be a bat. You have to be a bat being a bat to know for sure. But since you can’t communicate as a bat what it’s like being a bat to a human, the question is unanswerable. Ditto with…[Read more]

Just dawned on me, Enco, your comment using poe. You mean to say i assume po, the tagalog word to show respect to an elder or friend? Yea well not too many Filipinos in service work in my area. A few at Costco and that is about all i have observed.

What’s it like being an octopus, having a brain like you and me but also another brain in each of its eight arms?

And what about squirrels, who are incredibly resourceful and capable of acrobatics that make cats and monkeys stare in abject wonder.

And what about prairie dogs, the only animals science…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Sorry, I didn’t mean to repeat myself.

Joke,

I sometimes say “only this, nothing more” when i go through a drive through for coffee or whatever. I think only once, maybe twice, has the response been drive right up or some affirmation of understanding. It’s “anything else sir?”

So, what’d they say? “OK, Poe! Move it on up!” 🐦‍⬛ 😁

Joke,

I sometimes say “only this, nothing more” when i go through a drive through for coffee or whatever. I think only once, maybe twice, has the response been drive right up or some affirmation of understanding. It’s “anything else sir?”

So, what’d they say? “OK, Poe! Move it on up!” 🐦‍⬛ 😁

Reg,

Crow T. Robot repeatedly tried to posit what it would be like if Rocky from the Fugitive Alien movie franchise were Rocky The Flying Squirrel. It did not result in result in interspecies/intersapient understanding and empathy on the part of Joel Robinson.

Now, to be clear, no one should be bent…[Read more]

I sometimes say “only this, nothing more” when i go through a drive through for coffee or whatever. I think only once, maybe twice, has the response been drive right up or some affirmation of understanding. It’s “anything else sir?”

Reg,

What’s it like being a raven or a crow?

Again, Bullwinkle? What next? What is it like being Rocky the Flying Squirrel?

Unless the raven could quoth on this in a tongue that we bore, we can never know, now or evermore.

Unseen wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them?

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals? Oh, maybe it has to do with meeting chicks. Shoulda known.

These far-right “manly/religious” types exist in their mommy’s basements and are repulsive to most American gals who want a centered equal par…[Read more]

Unseen,

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals?

The Russian Orthodox Church wouldn’t tell that to men unless it’s to serve as a double agent or saboteur for Putin.

A tiny illustration of how the far left is complicit in it’s hyperfocus on demonizing Jews/Israel and the resultant pass for anything goes and Islam rules without opposition and a friendly pat in the ass.

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Reg,

How to fix the American healthcare system.

I have a diabetic foot wound as we speak and have had my foot in a boot for 8 months.

None of that New York Times “Old Grey Lady” socio-babble addresses my problem.

I don’t smoke and with Metformin and proper diet I keep my blood sugar below 120mg/DCL most mornings. I would exercise and have…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them?

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals? Oh, maybe it has to do with meeting chicks. Shoulda known.

Reg,

Young US men are joining Russian churches promising ‘absurd levels of manliness’.

So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them? Or for that matter if you want your Sunday Mornings free? Or if you don’t like Patriarch Kyrill telling you what to think? Or if you don’t favor invading Ukraine and kidnapping thousands of…[Read more]

Apropos of nothing in particular. Just some Sunday morning fun:

One of the hardest words to rhyme with is “poetry.”
Poets flop when the give it a goetry.
Long have they struggled,
But mostly they’ve bungled.
The wordsmiths mostly give up in woe-etry.