The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Thanks to Will Perkins for the find!

Don’t know what the “Distracted Boyfriend” meme is? Here are a couple of examples:

It’s based on the stock photo pictured below, and here’s an explainer.

The headline is Dog Pursuit Sends Naked Woman Across I-95 in Florida. Here’s the opener:

Richard Griffin of Titusville says he and his wife were driving north on I-95 in Flagler County Friday when they saw a man and a woman running across the road.

But as they got closer, they saw that the woman had no clothes on. Griffin says she was naked from head to toe, and trying to round up a dog.

As for the joke from 4th grade, it’s this one:

There was a woman who had two dogs, whom she named Seymour and Freeshow. One day, while taking a shower, she noticed through the bathroom window that she’d left the gate to her yard open, and the dogs were running away. Without stopping even to garb a towel, she ran out the house and after her dogs — completely naked — calling after them: “Freeshow! Seymour!”

Saw this display at “Gifts from FL”, one of many cheesy-yet-charming gift shops in the more tourist-heavy areas of Orlando. Florida requires only a license plate on the rear, leaving the front free to personalize. Which one of these should I go with for my car?

Click the photo to read the story on NPR.

When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave her first speech to Parliament after last week’s terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, she said this:

“That’s why you will never hear me mention his name. He is a terrorist, he is a criminal, he is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless.”

It’s an idea along the same lines as one expressed in 2015 in the webcomic The Nonadventures of Wonderella. Wonderella just makes it a little spicier:

Click the comic to read the whole thing.

And hey, even the American answer to Uday Hussein tweeted the same notion. His tweet pretty much mirrors his life: it has a great start, flounders mid-way just like he did in college, and ends like the dumpster fire that one would expect:

Click Diaper Don’s tweet to read it on the original site.

When very different people have the same idea in science, it’s called multiple discovery. Let’s follow the example of this sort of multiple discovery and not mention the terrorist by name. I myself will be following Wonderella’s advice and simply refer to him as “some asshole”.

Click the photo to see it at full size.

Thanks to Jeannie Cool for the find!

Patheos sums it up quite succinctly: Led by conservative Christians, Republican lawmakers in Idaho vote down legislation that would have ended child marriage in the state.

On Thursday, the state of Idaho’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted down legislation aimed to prevent children under the age of 16 from getting married. The bill would require the consent of…

1. most importantly, the child (who is, if you’ll recall, under 16),
2. the child’s parents,
3. and a court.

Defenders of this terrible vote included Republican representative Bryan Zollinger…

“I do not think courts should be involved in marriage at all. I don’t believe there should be a license required to get married. I think two willing people should be able to go and get married.”

 

 

 

…and Republican Representative Christy Zito mentioned abortion, which is legal in Idaho before age 18 with approval from a parent or judge:

“It will then become easier in the state of Idaho to obtain an abortion at 15-and-a-half years old than it will to decide to form a family.”

 

 

 

 

 

Further reading

Source: UnchainedAtLast.org. Click the image to see the source.

• Newsweek: REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED IDAHO CONGRESS REJECTS BILL TO END CHILD MARRIAGE FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 16
• The Hill: Idaho lawmakers kill bill that would have ended child marriage under 16 in state
• Idaho Statesman: This bill would have ended child marriage for those under age in Idaho. The House voted it down
• UnchainedAtLast.org: Child Marriage – Shocking Statistics, whose stats indicate that Idaho has the highest rate of child marriage in the U.S.