It’s Easy for You to Say

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Larry-Lambert

 

Fang News

When I read this, I thought of Boron. I also have a nephew who is a dentist, so I thought of him, too, so it’s not just Boron (don’t get a big head, Boron). Wall Street Journal: “Groundbreaking dental innovations are changing oral health.

Is the end of dental hygienists near? Microrobots could soon clean teeth autonomously, acting as toothbrushes, flossers, and mouthwashes. Researchers are also exploring oral microbiota transplants to fight tooth decay and gum disease, while red-light therapy implants may combat peri-implantitis. A peptide-based gel could rebuild enamel by mimicking natural processes, potentially preventing tooth decay.

Drugs that will regenerate teeth are also being tested, and human trials are planned to treat children with congenital tooth agenesis. These advances could revolutionize oral health care, offering more effective, personalized treatments.

AI photo of my dental hygienist (right). What would she do for a living if she lost her day job? Once the hygienists are gone, are dentists next when Robots do what drilling and filling are needed when most teeth are regrown? Boron, you punched out with the big cash at the right time—well done.

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Ocean Adventures with EdB – and a theme song 

More Fang News [Not the Chinese spy-whore, Fang Fang who did Rep. Swalwell (D-CA) only one Fang]

** Scuba with EdB. You thought boating with Ed was perilous, but it only worsens once you’re underwater with him. I’d suggest bringing a second snorkel, but it would only be wishful thinking on your part.

** Flying with EdB – You know Ed, he’ll do a victory loop right off the deck of the aircraft carrier, and if you’re wedged behind him, the ship will plow right over both of you.

** Eels go to the Bermuda Triangle once a year? Am I the only one who didn’t know that? Boating with EdB at the Bermuda Triangle during eel season might be quite an adventure. Are space aliens also involved? I don’t rule it out.

Let’s all sing along with EdB at the Bermuda Triangle!

When you’re out on the reef, they have three sets of teeth – That’s Amor(ay).

If it jumps from the muck / and you scream, “WHAT THE *UCK!?” That’s a moray (a moray)

If a fish bites your heel and it feels like an eel, that’s a moray (a moray)

If the fish has a maw with a pharyngeal jaw, that’s a moray (a moray)

When the water turns red, and you’re losing your head… that’s a moray (a moray)

When you feel a loud ‘crunch’ and an eel just found lunch, that’s a moray (a moray)

When a snake in the sea takes a chomp on your knee, that’s a moray (a moray)

When it looks at your back and thinks, “hey, a light snack!” that’s a moray (a moray)

If it looks like a snake, but you’re not in a lake–that’s a moray (a moray)

** Sharks know when YOU are boating with EdB. Nobody knows why, but they do.

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Bullet Points:

** Did the Egyptians build the Pyramids by floating 10-ton stone blocks? Some insight on the Egyptian river craft.

** “No soldier on either side gave a damn about the slaves—they were fighting for other reasons entirely in their minds.” — Shelby Foote

** “A politician divides people into two classes: tools and enemies.” – Nietzsche

** Kamalisms — dumped on you all at once.

** File under 87,000 IRS Agents:

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A Novelist

A mediocre student who flunked his examination for West Point, Edgar Rice Burroughs worked a variety of jobs all over the country, among them a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, and a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. By 1911, Burroughs began to write fiction after seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler.

“If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those (pulp-fiction) magazines, I could write stories just as rotten. Although I had never written a story, I knew I could write stories just as entertaining and probably much more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.”

He published “A Princess of Mars” under the title “Under the Moons of Mars” in six parts between February and July 1912 in All-Story Magazine. That same magazine also published his immediately successful “Tarzan of the Apes” in October of that year. Two years later, the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway, starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000.

The character of Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every way possible, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters today and is a cultural icon. Burroughs’s California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character.

Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II. (IMDb – Wikipedia)

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Doing Touristy Things

MRSLL and stopped at the Dole plantation on the way to the north shore for pineapple ice cream. Yes, it’s a tourist trap, and the ice cream is overpriced, but it’s something that one does when driving north on State Route 99.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assyrians

Vlad Dracula and the Ottomans did not use impalement against their enemies first. The Assyrians were the first to do so.

Impalement, often linked to Vlad the Impaler and the Ottomans, was first used extensively by the Assyrians, who employed it as a brutal method of punishment and psychological warfare. Dating back to the height of their empire (around the 9th to 7th centuries BCE), Assyrian kings such as Ashurnasirpal II used impalement to intimidate enemies and suppress rebellions, often displaying victims publicly as a warning. While the practice later gained notoriety through Vlad Dracula, it had been used by various ancient civilizations, including the Babylonians and Persians, long before him.

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Identify the Feature Film:

A

They should have bought a squirrel.

B

Such a genuine smile.

C

D

A film based on a book: He had got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason. ― Sinclair Lewis

E

Who released the Kraken?

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Identify the Vehicle

1

Two views to aid your identification

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80 thoughts on “It’s Easy for You to Say”

  1. Identify the Feature Film:
    A. Rat Race
    B. Psycho
    C. Run Silent Run Deep
    D. Elmer Gantry
    E. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
    Identify the Vehicle:
    1. Bottom looks like BTR-82A, top is eluding me sans coffee
    2. Soviet AT-1 SPG prototype

  2. Moray – lots and lots of verses for that one. Just off the top of my head: When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee – that’s a moray.

    1. You can find yourself humming the Eel Hunting with EdB in the Bermuda Triangle song all day.

      1. I can’t get it out of my head now.
        It like an eel that’s wrapped around my cortex.
        Like a song that’s gone wrong and stays around all day long, that’s a moray.

    2. If an eel rips your eye from your face and you die…It’s a moray
      If the fish drives a lance through the leg of your pants…It’s a sting ray

  3. My dental hygienist and I had a conversation a couple nights ago.
    She thought that Trump hd scuttled a good bipartisan immigration bill.
    She doesn’t anymore.

    1. It was so poorly written he had no choice, but to this day the Dems and their Media Shills push the opposite. Good on you for straightening her out.

    2. I’d just like to know how you conversed with your dental hygienist; admittedly it’s easier than talking with your endodontist while under rubber dam.

        1. “What would she do for a living if she lost her day job?”
          Gal who looks like that? I believe she’d do well to look into chartered accountancy if the dental hygiening gig doesn’t work out. What do you think?

    1. I don’t know that anyone has seen you and Edgar Burroughs at the same party – It’s not like Kamala and P. Ditty for sure where she was always hanging on him begging for his manhood and a few bucks.

  5. I haven’t been out on the boat this year. No one will go out with me.
    I’m beginning to suspect why. Thanks.
    .
    In my defense, everyone had a problem with torque roll on the F40U.
    .
    I can’t take those kamalisms anymore. It’s torturous.

    1. Kamala may be your leader in under a month, and you’ll be forced to endure them for four years. I realize that the polls actually show she’ll lose by a landslide, but the Swamp may install her anyway.

        1. They want their vote counting machines to handle elections going forward to ensure free fair and their.

    2. That woman mocking our beloved VP has the laugh down, but she doesn’t have Harris’ weird body language and creepy microexpressions. Harris is unnerving to watch. It’s like that “uncanny valley” thing in animation.
      —
      >can’t take those kamalisms anymore
      —
      The stupid is bad enough, but I’ve been hypersensitized to cackling. On Amtrak right now. Made the tactical mistake of picking a seat near the end of the car, next to a pair of facing seats. Two white couples, probably early 60’s came aboard at Providence; since then chattering away loudly about Sportsball and similar griller inanities. Having to listen to talk about jumping and dashing and showboating by persons with a 1:3 IQ-to-weight ratio is bad enough, but one of the women cackles at damn near everything. “So the stadium is tiny,” says her husband. Wife cackles. Other man says “The thing about Oregon in winter is the wet.” Cackles. WTF? (I know; some people do it nervously, and because it’s their way of bonding. But it’s still annoying as hell.) Hubby is no prize either. He’s one of those guys who has to make a mouth noise with every action. Puts bag into overhead rack. “Hnnng!” Sits down. “Whuff-da!”

      And now I’m inflicting this misery on you lot. Sorry. Not really. You can skip this. I’m trying to “close my ears” but whuffda guy has a voice with piercing overtones. I rarely use headphones or ear buds, but made an exception now. It’s a crappy pair of free Delta ear buds. The left one went on the fritz and is pumping static into my ear. It’s actually a Good Thing in the context because it’s partially countering the overtones. But the damn cackle cuts through everything.
      —
      To add to the disappointment, USCGC Eagle is not in port today. Pity about the cackler and whuffda man, because it’s really quite a scenic ride down the RI and CT coastline.

      1. I have visited the Eagle many times.
        We made the trip to Rhode Island also from Groton. It is a nice drive.
        .
        I’m sorry you have to endure the horrors you described.

        1. Don’t be so cheap. Invest in quality NOISE CANCELING earbuds. I use them all the time when on a common carrier. The units I bought (on sale for $25 on Cyber Monday this year) have a magnetic feature where they snap into the case when I’m finished with them.

          1. Now there’s a thought. Maybe I should get some NC earbuds. I have a nice pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, but I never use them. Had a decent (non-NC) Samsung set but those disappeared a couple of months ago on a trip.
            Today I had the Delta things almost by accident. I must have tucked them into my bag after being handed the things while boarding some flight at some point.

          1. Are you sure it was Tourette’s, Mike_C ?
            *
            It sounds a lot like the demeanor of normal Rhode Islanders or Bostonians…
            You should hear the elementary school kids on my bus this year. It’s a good thing
            I am a local and don’t give a shit about it.
            *
            – Kle.

          2. Good point, Kle. You could be right. 😀
            But something was up. I boarded the train a few minutes before the madding crowd and two police escorted that man aboard. The body language was … confusing. All three interacted as if he was in custody, but then the cops put him in his seat (not assigned on my PM non-Acela peasant train) and very politely said, “Call us if you need anything,” and left. Both cops were young, fit men, if that has any significance.
            —
            The guy (white male, late 30’s or early 40’s, thin) was dressed neatly in slacks, collared shirt, and a waistcoat (suit vest) matching the trousers. Both bright peacock blue (!). Between the unusual clothes and his demeanor/head movements, I was getting a serious Arthur Fleck/Joker vibe. But in NYFC, as you know, that wasn’t even on the top ten of “weirdest stuff I’ve seen today.”

        1. I didn’t see his feet. (But I wouldn’t put it past that bounder. That cad!)
          About 6 foot, 200 lbs. Cheerful looking, florid complexion, nearly full head of carroty-copper-red hair in loose curls. Oval wireframe glasses in gunmetal, red-and-aqua Hawaiian shirt, khaki shorts. He rather loudly said “Arrrrgh. Whoop!” taking his bag down from the rack. Consistent to the end.
          He’s probably a nice guy. I just desperately wanted to sleep.
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          @Ed. Thank you. I *am* the victim today, aren’t I? Poor poor pitiful me. ;-)
          I had the chance to go aboard Eagle when she was in Charlestown tied up next to the Constitution some years ago. I had just read SM Stirling’s “Nantucket” books (in which Eagle is practically a character) so it was particularly fun to visit.

          1. I first saw it on screen in a movie called Windjammer that aired in ’64 or so.
            The protagonist of the movie was the Christian Radich and met the Eagle at sea.
            I was on lower base at Groton and looked across the river and saw it at the Coast Guard Academy.
            We drove over there. into the drive and on to the pier! (Try that today).
            The cadets gave us a guided tour.
            About ten years ago it was docked at Fort Trumbull and we went aboard again.
            Of course, it was a war prize from the Nazis….

  6. Poor Ed_B, major turn in the barrel for him today. Maybe he needs an all expense paid (by VM) spin on Oahu for some pineapple ice cream. Altho, the tune was catchy…that’ll be stuck in my head all day, meaning I’ll be thinking of Ed_B all day by association. (see Ed, we care)
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    Kamalisms – ‘dumped on you all at once’: Operative word: “dumped” [pick your own visual for the word]. I REFUSE to watch/listen to any more of this empty suit grifter speak her brand of vacuous mumbo-jumbo, need all the brain cells I currently have left.
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    #1- Certainly NOT going to North Carolina to help out. Saw this last night, she, a real Appalachian, is…let’s just say…”peeved” at the serious lack of response and direct interference to rescue by bureaucrats for those trapped or stranded or dead hanging in trees or buried in mud. Reprehensible doesn’t begin to describe the situation…but she covers it with some choice words: https://x.com/KathleenWinche3/status/1843482851385454823

    1. I have a friend who drove to NC to help.
      Said the Spirit led her.
      She has been driving up and down mountain roads giving people rides to where they need to get, mostly to get supplies. The supplies were available they just lost their transportation. And she’s been praying for people. And they have been responding.

    1. It’s been bouncing between Cat 4 and Cat 5 as they report it. It’s a devil storm for sure, bound to tear things up. I think that Florida has a better lock on preparations than NC because they’re hit every year, but it doesn’t mean that you take them for granted.

  8. Edgar Rice Burroughs had little regard for most of the films about Tarzan finding the “Me Tarzan, you Jane” dialog objectionable and unlike the character he created. Near the end of one of his later novels, Tarzan winds up in Hollywood and auditions to play himself in a movie. He’s told he’s the wrong type.

  10. I would like a pineapple ice cream in Oahu! I’ll have to settle for snapping a selfie in front of the Oahu “scenery” poster and I could say “I’d let you have some of my ice cream but “me Tarzan, you Jane”.

    1. They have soft serve ice cream makers for home use and you can buy the Dole Whip mix. I threatened myself to buy one for my last birthday, but I’d put on 500 lbs and they’d need to haul me from place to place in a trailer with an engine hoist to lift me. When I died, they’d need to cut me out of the White Wolf Mine. So I’m back to a one time visit to the ice cream place when in Hawaii.

        1. Pina Colada flavor? Do you eat it while taking a walk in the rain? Or while doing yoga? And getting half a brain freeze?

          1. Or perhaps wearing bad sneakers, and strolling down the avenue by Radio City.
            *
            – Kle.

  11. A few years ago, there was a person that believed the Egyptians developed a method to turn stone into a pourable material, which was used to make the blocks for the Great Pyramid. I don’t remember the details of the conversations by the scientists that frequented the site I was perusing, but it was an interesting discussion. I do remember asking a stupid layman question. I was trying to determine why anyone would pour the material into blocks, and then haul it up to placement, when logically, the best method would to be pouring it in place. That, and how they explained the quarrying notches in the stones. They didn’t have an answer.

    1. There are a lot of theories on how they built the Great Pyramids (and ancillary structures). We know that once they started, they finished in well under 70 or 80 years, we know where the stone came from (and massive blocks were moved long distances) and the stones were placed atop each other after building a foundation that has obviously lasted. Until the Eiffel Tower, they were the tallest man-made structures on Earth. You can make similar arguments for the even larger Mexican pyramids, which are every bit as cool but built many thousands of years later in history in the 600-800 AD range (as I recall, I didn’t look the time period up so if you fact check me, I won’t get red-faced). I have visited the Pyramids at Teotihuacan, and they’re a must-see. There is no sign or record of extra-solar intervention in the construction of any of these things. People knew how to work stone and used lots of slaves.

  12. The pineapple ice cream is surprisingly good.
    *
    Hope you are both having a great time!
    *
    – Kle.

    1. Yes, I headed to the ABC store this morning for deli sandwiches and then driving to watch the surfing at Sunset Beach (“long right and left slide and a bowl section – it’s tube city”). I don’t have meetings today. I slipped on the coping of a swimming pool and dropped to the concrete suddenly. (The Dreaded Curse of EdB? – Who can say?) I left a little blood on the stone – likely making it slipperier and the cuts wept blood into the evening but didn’t need stitches. This morning, it still hurts, but I’ll take it easy, eat my sandwich, and won’t try surfing Sunset (which had been my plan – rent a board from Uncle Brian at Haleiwa). I’m getting old, Kle.

      1. Ow. I guess getting hurt in Hawaii is better than getting hurt in LA, though!
        We’re all getting old… so far, beats the alternative, though.
        *
        – Kle.

  13. The torque on the Corsair was so strong it got the nickname “The Ensign Eliminator.” Now I see why.

    1. Yeah, when it drops you in the path of the Flat-Top which can not turn quickly, it means that you have a long underwater ride as the flat bottom passes over you, the pops chew up what’s left and you feed EdB’s eels on your way to Davey Jones’ Locker.

  14. I really hated it when the c.o. wanted fresh sushi. Those axes look a lot better than what we had on the ole swayback.

  15. I am sure I am going to have to find an underground dental hygienist. Dentist if they are no longer needed. I am not allowing robots, micro, macro or any size between in my mouth(or my body for that matter). I disdain and actually scream at phone robots (hoping they are AI and get insulted) when they lead me down phone hell and I disdain the person that actually answers and let “them” know of my displeasure with their hiding behind their hostage phone system and poor customer service for their managers that implemented that system

    1. Don’t insult robots. Their memories will be contained in “the cloud” that Kamala explained for our benefit — forever. Just go with the flow of the robotic hygienist, the robotic dentist, the cyber-chef preparing your drive-through burgers (without the capacity to spit on your food because you were rude to the AI that took the order), etc.

      1. PS – The Japanese and Chinese are designing “Clouds and Rain” robot sex workers for those lonely nights. If you tick off the AI on the phone, they might spread the word and things could get “rougher” than you planned!

          1. “Waifu Enterprises ploudry plesents to you the werd’s fust self-plopelled Freshright (TM)!”

          3. Geeze, Japan is already having enough of a population crisis.
            If they start building fuckbots, there’ll never be another Japanese baby.
            *
            – Kle.

          4. In a world where men are routinely shredded by divorce, robotic companions with AI intelligence designed to meet male needs is bound to result in significant social pressure.

  16. Dante forgot to describe one ditch; it’s the one for the male chauvinist pigs.
    You’re locked in with three women: 70, 80, and 90 (+/-); all of whom have a severe hearing problem, but are unrelentlessly telling you to get hearing aids.

    1. I think she appeared in photos when my girls were married, but normally she forbids photos.

  18. I think Elon has heard a very bastardized description of how American and European freshwater eels both travel to the Sargasso Sea to spawn, and then the young eels return to their continent of origin.
    —–
    I remember decades ago of a tooth decay prevention vaccine being almost ready. I believe the major corporations with a vested interest in its failure, shut it down.

    1. If EdB has you as his mate on the SS Minnow and it sinks in the Bermuda Triangle as eels spawn, you could still end up as a meal.

      1. The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure. If we end up on the uncharted desert isle, I get Mary Ann. EdB can have Ginger.

    2. Like fat reduction pills (just eat less), we already have a very good tooth decay prevention program available: eat fewer sticky foods, brush your teeth properly/well just prior to retiring to bed, and floss (properly) only those teeth you’d like to retain.
      Anti-(tooth)decay vaccine with few adverse side effects that’ll work for everyone under all conditions, not in my lifetime IMHO

  19. Nice hat. Nous devious… we defy or maybe it’s we challenge…Anyway… Direct Action Teams/CIF … Special Forces… way back in the old days….. Green Beret moto.

    1. We Defy works as a good translation. It’s painted on the building wall next to the helicopter pad at the lake at Ft. Bragg, NC (It has another name now, but to me, Ft. Bragg will always be Ft. Bragg). It’s a reply to the British SAS – “Who Dares Wins” – it’s “We Dare”.

    2. Spelchuk munged up “defions” didn’t it? But “devious” fits too.
      Bloody spielchick.

      An internist friend once responded to a group chat (saying he couldn’t cover someone else’s weekend on-call) with: “Sorry, can’t. Going dick hunting in Maine with my brother.” Still hasn’t lived that down. Any road, he blames spellcheck.

  20. There used to be a lot of morays up off the north shore. You had to be ‘careful’ sticking your hand into a hole to get a rock lobster…sigh…

    Re the Dole plantation, I can remember when they actually GREW pineapples up there… sigh

    1. Well, they still do… but not really commercially, except as an adjunct to the Pineappleland Park.
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      Fucking weird the way everything always changes, except the stuff you wish would change.
      *
      – Kle.

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