And honestly, it’s still better than the story in Episode 1’s opening crawl:
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“Let’s begin with a prayer”
Here’s the caption with some links for context:
“Before we discuss raising taxes on the poor and middle class, adding $1 trillion to the deficit, taking health insurance away from 13 million, raising insurance premiums by 10 percent, defending treason, and swearing in a pedophile, let’s begin with a prayer.”
In case you’re wondering why this editorial cartoon seems familiar, that’s because the caption is a twist on Jack Ziegler’s original version, which he drew in 2004:
Santa and his what?
But seriously: herpes is nowhere nearly as bad as you’ve been led to believe…
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Flynn-a-palooza!
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Happy Thanksgiving 2017!
Click the comic to see the source.
The turkey isn’t referred to as “India” in Turkey alone; the Polish do it too. It’s called diiq Hindi (“Indian rooster”) in many Arabian countries and “bird of India” in Russian.
I lived in Canada for decades, and thanks to bilingual food packaging, I know that the French word for “turkey” is dinde. What never occurred to me until I looked it up is that dinde is a compressed form of d’Inde, which means “from India”.
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Anime scene of the day
Found via a Twitter account called “out of context animeeeeeeeeeeeee”.
Given the way a lot of anime storylines go, I can’t tell if the screenshot above is totally out of context, or if all the context you need is right there.
It sounds like a plot point from a movie titled American Pie: The Naval Academy Years, but it actually happened — the U.S. Navy had to apologize because one of their airplanes was used to create a giant contrail penis in the sky of Okanogan County, Washington.
In many coming-of-age movies, an authority figure has to apologize for the young protagonist’s inappropriate and tasteless actions, and the apology sounds so straight-laced that it becomes funny in context. The Navy’s official statement on the matter has pretty much the same effect:
“The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable.”
I have questions (of course I have questions!):
- Can we make “dongtrails” the official word for this kind of skywriting?
- Planes — especially Navy planes — aren’t like cars. You can’t just take one out for a spin without informing someone; you have to file a flight plan specifying where you’re taking off from, the route you’re taking, and where you’ll land. What kind of flight plan was filed for this jaunt?
- While the act shows terrible judgement and reflects poorly on the Navy, drawing a giant sky penis does require some precision flying, including a hairpin turn. I’m not saying that the people involved should go undisciplined, but perhaps their skills could be channeled towards better, constructive, and even tasteful directions.