Comments on: Open thread 3/6/24

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:40:50 +0000

bottom of the book segment

https://twitter.com/chiiium/status/1765515842328887777

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:17:39 +0000

well he’s stuck inside a rock

https://twitter.com/gladysk06040782/status/1765538660886237418

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:12:30 +0000

one of those taranto questions no one asked

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1765481383504265674

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:08:44 +0000

I don’t think yitzak parsley, is the image we’re looking for, but he was ‘compact like an attack hamster’ a line pj o’rourke had about anti guerilla leader in the phillipines,

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:40:43 +0000

huxley, thanks for making me laugh.

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:24:20 +0000

they have run this reminder of what films used to be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWM_UBx07Q

with that rousing score,

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:30:43 +0000

If it’s possible to bring woolly mammoths, it should be possible to engineer them to live in different environments.

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Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
And bring them out here!

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and we won’t go until we got some,
and we won’t go until we got some
So bring some out here!

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By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:10:10 +0000

Not sure.
(Shamir also means parsley…though the three-letter root has to do with keeping, preserving or protecting; but also, for some reason, the adjective bitter or acerbic…
Go figure…)

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:57:00 +0000

I did know that, (best carson impression) is that why yitzak chose that name, nee yezemitsky,

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:45:32 +0000

Nuthin’ new under the sun….
(Herbert well knew his Hebrew midrash….perhaps… Though it’s always possible that he was, in fact, a Talmudic scholar in a previous life…or on another planet…)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_shamir
Opening description:
“In the Gemara, the shamir…is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the Solomon’s Temple in place of cutting tools. For the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, which promoted peace, it was inappropriate to use tools that could also cause war and bloodshed.[2]…”