Posts from — April 2023

It’s Hexennacht, but there is no Blocksberg available for dancing down here and it is so soggy that bonfires are out of the question.

Of course the Church grabbed this holiday too and called it Walpurgisnacht in honor of one of their Anglo-Saxon saints, rather than good German witches [Hexen]. The Celts celebrate Beltaine at this time of the year. It is considered the beginning of summer in much of Europe.

Today is World Penguin Day. Krill is the appropriate gift – well for a penguin…

It is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, which is similar to the American Veterans Day, in that it began as a remembrance of World War I, and has become more generalized over the years.

“Anzac Day commemorates the involvement of Australian and New Zealand troops in a World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.”

The Gallipoli Campaign began as a Winston Churchill [then First Lord of the Admiralty] plan that spun out of control and got a lot of people killed on both sides with nothing much changing, but then, that was quite common in World War I.

Peter Weir made a movie, Gallipoli, which, if nothing else, proves that Sergeant Alvin York, and T.E. Lawrence weren’t the only people who fought in World War I.

[Note: The date is April 25 which is April 24 in the US because of the time zone difference.]

“The date as decided by UNESCO as it was also the death and birth anniversary of William Shakespeare, a world famous author. The date also coincided with the death anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes, who was a noted Spanish author. Some other well known authors whose birth or death anniversary falls on this day are Maurice Druon, Josep Pla and Halldor Laxness.”

Saint George is the patron saint of England, Georgia [the country], Bulgaria, Portugal, Catalonia, and the city of Moscow. Orthodox countries tend to celebrate George on November 23^rd.

PETA condemns George for his senseless slaughter of dragons. The YWCA condemns the condemnation and wants to know when PETA is going to volunteer to be DragonChow™

She’s the only planet we have, if we blow it, we can’t pack up and move.

There’s no Plan[et] B.

Wikipedia has an Earth Day entry, with links to other sites.

A Russian Su-34 VKM accidently dropped its bomb load over a Russia city: Belgorod. The Russian military reported the incident as: “abnormal descent of aviation munitions.”

Leon Smuk’s ..er..Elon Musk’s rocket-powered dildo exploded over the Gulf of Mexico instead of reaching orbit and the SpaceX announcer described it as: “a rapid unscheduled disassembly” or RUD. The assembled SpaceX employees applauded anyway.

These are disgusting levels of denying reality to suck up to the Bosses.

Property is 16 today.

Tax Day is Tuesday but here’s the theme music for the day on YouTube.

Because Tax Day fell on Saturday and Emancipation Day in DC is celebrated on Monday, the deadline is extended until Tuesday, the 18th.

This e-mail was so bad that it wust have been sent to annoy people.

nọrepļy <3725serviceppl@iinet.net.au> – an Australian e-mail address that doesn’t look very professional.

They must have a time machine as I received it at 3/29/2023, 1:44 PM, five hours before it was sent – Order placed on 3/29/2023 6:44:46 PM.

I was supposed to be delivered to – 26B Prudential Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32207, United States. Prudential Drive is 2 blocks long with street number from 1800 through 1999.

They believer that I would buy a Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB Internal Hard Drive Performance HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC Laptop, Data Recovery from for Amount Paid: $929.00, when I can buy it from Bezos for $300.

Their Customer Care Service toll-free at +1-833-485-9029 which is odd as that’s the number for TrailPoint, The Woodlands, Texas an Apartment Rental Agency.

GMail marked it as spam when I forwarded to my account on my desktop from my iPad.

This is what happens when you have small children – you dye your kitchen.

Yes, the festival of Easter, goddess of the Spring, is celebrated this time of year with the traditional symbols of fertility, the egg and the rabbit, by the people who settled around the Baltic Sea – the Teutons, Slavs, Finns, Prussians, Letts, et al. It is a festival of plenty after the hardships of winter, with the promise of new growth.

Of course, later groups took the celebration and turned it to other purposes, but I doubt Easter minds.

[An oldie from Easters past]

Sundown today marks the beginning of Pesach [Passover]. The story is found in the Book of Exodus. Rather more relevant now after a pandemic (which isn’t over) and ongoing wars.

This is a time of Matzah [unleavened bread], Marror [bitter herbs], wine and the retelling of the story of founding of Israel.

You can, of course, just pop in a DVD of The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille’s version.

At its core this is a story of immigration and anyone claiming to be a Christian or Jew should pay attention – it’s on the FINAL EXAM.

Duluth Trading Company is an Internet/mail order vendor of work clothes that I occasionally buy from. They also have a sense of humor. Today’s e-mail advertised “Fire Hose® Anti-Cat Suits” and “Pipin’-Hot Pit Pocket Shirts”. Fire Hose® is a heavy-weight canvas that they use for pants and jackets that will certainly protect you from your cat and anything put in the armpit pocket of shirt would probably be warmer that the ambient air.

Of you can’t order either, but the catsuit would make a long-lasting Halloween costume.

The BBC’s Spaghetti Harvest is still the top of the list for pranks.