Memefest, 2022

“Remember that time you tried to drill a hole in your head?” – Ghostbusters

Someone called me lazy today. I almost replied.

A quick peak behind the curtain – I normally try to get some rest, since I’m only mostly superhuman. I’m trying to evolve to the point where I don’t need sleep, and can subsist on a diet of nothing but memes, PEZ®, coffee, and fahrvergnügen, but tonight things went a little sideways.

First, I’ve been trying to salvage an hour or two a week by doing blog-related correspondence and making my rounds on the ‘net at lunch. I normally only get on for blogging-related three times a week, and if I can do it during a time I’m normally goofing off, so much the better. It’s still goofing off, but it’s blog-related. Result: two hours of extra weeknight sleep each week. I call that a win. Or, I would if I were conscious.

Whelp. Today I got sucked into listening to the vortex of oddity and Clown World™ that is the Darrell Brooks trial (Waukesha “alleged” murderer) with The Mrs. at lunch. The trial is so absurd that we couldn’t look away. Well, I thought, that’s fine. I’ll skip an hour’s worth of sleep tonight and do correspondence and blogging rounds then.

I got home about usual, but The Mrs. had some ideas on dinner that pushed it starting a bit late. That’s no biggie, either, and it was some extra fun with the family. Another hour? What’s living without two hours of sleep, anyway? I’ve done it before.

So, now it’s after dinner, and I discover a problem outside. It’s an utterly first-world problem (I’ll spare you the details) but working it out took about four hours to make sure everything was fine because it was gonna freeze tonight, and I wanted to make sure that I didn’t end up doing a few thousand bucks worth of damage. I couldn’t really blog at that time, but I did have a nice cigar.

Crisis averted – everything is (fingers crossed) functional. Mainly, the fixing didn’t take too long, the rest was testing, making sure electric doo-dads were all working, and waiting to make sure that it was reliably working under all circumstances for a few hours. I was satisfied.

So, I sat down at my keyboard, and, lo and behold, it was midnight.

Ugh. I suppose that I could have done another Lame Repost from the past, but decided not to – I try to limit those to once a month or less. I had notes on several posts that would fit the bill tonight, but writing them and editing them takes time. So, I decided to clean out some proverbial closets and share some as-found memes. I make most (not all, but most) of my own memes from scratch using only the finest quality keks and chortles, but I also collect memes that others baked.

Why? They make me laugh, think, or, best of all, both. So, here’s a collection of more-or-less random memetic soup that I saved and probably won’t use in any future posts. I’ll be back on correspondence and web-rounds no later than Thursday/Friday.

I hope you enjoy!

Hint: it’s all better with a hot cup of fahrvergnügen.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

31 thoughts on “Memefest, 2022”

  3. GBTO!!! Used to see these rear window oval stickers all over the SC Lowcountry, and the Charleston Riverdogs used to have a GBTO Night. Show an old Ohio ID & get in free.

    GBTO??? GO BACK TO OHIO.

      1. Yeah, central OH, former ocean, is flat. NE and especially SE OH has some nice hills.

        1. And my visit was to go and show up at a place in Columbus, ask some questions, then hit an airplane and leave . . . it wasn’t dramatic. Had a nice dinner in Dayton.

  4. Did you know that 20% of the people serving in the military are Ohioans?
    We Buckeyes are belligerent nuts.

      1. Personal experience, dealing with multiple services. It was true up to 15 years ago, I’m not sure about now.
        It was also a running gag in newspapers during Gulf War 1 and the early part of the ‘War on Terror’. Journalist visiting war zone: “Is there anybody here who isn’t from Ohio?”

        1. My comment was tongue-in-cheek (since Ohioans like to fight, you’d probably want to fight about it). However, most of the information I could find was about who was in the service and didn’t give details beyond that. Certainly, MOS (I would imagine) would not be evenly distributed.

          No data, though.

  5. John, I feel your pain. Writing here is 95% conducted in the hour or so post walking Poppy The Brave and wedged between breakfast, catch-up on other good bloggers, and trying to mentally prepare for work. Output is not always…there.

    The Plato’s Rave Meme is brilliant.

  6. Just a few miles from the Ohio border and the autistic screeching is often deafening, especially when people with a 7th grade education are screaming about “their Buckeyes”

      1. To really start a controversy you would have had to say something like Michigan is a way better team than the Buckeyes who couldn’t win a game if they played in their lane LOL.

        1. Hahahaha!

          Thankfully, I have no dog in this fight, and wish ’em all well. My college football team has always sucked, and I’m proud of that.

    3. We well educates Buckeyes (I dropped out of Ohio State twice) will always root for the band, if not the team. They don’t call them The Best Damned Band In The Land (TBDBITL) for nothing.

      Our honor defend
      We will fight to the end for O-hi-o!

  7. As a former Ohioan moved to TN I get asked if I live in the ____ enclave of Ohioans that moved here. I reply, No, I moved here to get away from them.

    1. Now, I did see the John Carpenter movie “In the Mouth of Madness” in a theater in Ohio. Are you saying that’s not a coincidence?

      1. Missed that one, but horror isn’t my favorite genre. I was referring to liberals but that might not be far off. So no, not likely a coincidence.

        1. Steve, I only liked it on the second viewing, and that was after Clown World was well underway. So, maybe I’m jaded. If you don’t like horror, I wouldn’t recommend that. Or 2022.

  8. Those are dank and there is at least one at first I was like then I was like side by side tweets with a positive outcome where they come back to reality, usually with some hilarious school photo day picture.
    That US map will come to pass with the Amero and if you stand in the mirror and say sophisticated binary chemical weapons 100 times, El Mystico will appear with milk and cookies.

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