Black Sheep

Black Sheep 

What, did you think it was a Saturday Night Live cast movie? Nay. Or baaah humbug.

We are all familiar with the behavior of sheep from either actually farming or watching Clarkson’s Farm. Sheep are fairly benign, certainly not wanting to bite you and turn you into a were-sheep. But not tonight! Prepare for zombie sheep mayhem.

This film was written and directed by Johnathan King – it was a singular vision. Much like a number of other titles I have posted. It always seems like such a triumph when someone pulls something off like this in the face of big studio monopolies. He did it again with Under the Mountain, a far more serious film which I may be adding to the post list in the future.

Now before you say this is another film warning us about the dangers of playing with mother nature, please realize that environmentalists come off as total idiots who made things worse in this film. Not a preachy film. Just a fun film.

It’s also from New Zealand, a place which suffered horribly under the boot of fascism during the COVID outbreak. I really hope the film industry recovers because we need more films like this.

So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week is a little modern kung fu with Enter the Fat Dragon.

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R.J.

Hello. My name is R.J. I am a Tulpa with extra cheese and sour cream.

206 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    But does he have any wool?

    • UnCivilServant

      No, the farmer sheared it and stole the wool.

      • Animal

        Sounds like he got fleeced.

        • rhywun

          Aries the puns aren’t going to get out of hand here.

          • MikeS

            All you guys are doing is pushing Swiss’s muttons.

            • Ted S.

              He’s gone on the lamb to get away from these puns.

            • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

              Do you think he will take a chop at us?

          • Ted S.

            Dam ewe!

          • Surly Knott

            Way to just ram the point home.

            • R.J.

              Swissy must be asleep.

              • Animal

                When he reads this, he’ll be wild and woolly.

              • Surly Knott

                Nah, he’s just off wool-gathering.

              • R.J.

                Counting sheep.

              • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

                I am guessing he will feel really sheepish in missing this thread.

              • Ownbestenemy

                I’ll be the black sheep and refrain from the sheer nonsense of a sheepish pun

              • juris imprudent

                Haggis he just doesn’t have the stomach for this thread.

  2. Count Potato

    *hits play*

  3. DEG

    It’s also from New Zealand,

    I’ve seen this before. I have a vague memory of some Lee porn in the middle. A Long Lee that had unfortunately been sporterized.

    a place which suffered horribly under the boot of fascism during the COVID outbreak.

    Like the Canadian truckers, I was rooting for the protesters in Wellington.

    I really hope the film industry recovers because we need more films like this.

    #metoo

    Diving in….

  4. DEG

    Scarred him for life…

  5. DEG

    Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.

    • R.J.

      Indeed! Sorry I’m late. I got distracted by Lego Harry Potter, of all things.

  6. CPRM

    I was just about to watch The Frisco Kid, but I guess I’ll check this out instead.

  7. Ted S.

    Where’s Chris Farley?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Living in a coffin down by the river.

      • Chafed

        Ka-Boom!

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I live very close to “the Farm.”

    They’re blowing stuff up again. Unless it’s new recruit training (and it’s too early for that), it’s usually an indicator that they’re preparing for an operation of some sort. In other words, don’t be surprised if some funny stuff happens in the next few weeks.

    • rhywun

      I don’t know what “the Farm” is but I’ve had about enough funny stuff for a lifetime in the last few years.

      • MikeS

        *touches side of nose, nods at rhywun

        • DrOtto

          Ted’s usually links shitty music. That’s a good song.

          • rhywun

            I know I usually link music that I like but I made an exception for this. I hate it.

            • Chafed

              That is Ted’S level terrible.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Think of a well known three letter agency that has zero accountability and mucks around in foreign countries for sport. It’s their operational training facility.

        • rhywun

          Can you be more specific?

          • Scruffy Nerfherder

            I suppose I should given the multitude of options.

            They like to rendition people to black sites.

        • DEG

          Hmm… FBI?

          • rhywun

            Probably, but I wanted to joke that there’s a zillion of them.

            • rhywun

              Or maybe CIA. I always confuse those two.

              • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

                It’s the CIA. FBI trains at Quantico.

              • MikeS

                CIA = (supposed to) only operates outside US borders
                FBI = (supposed to) only operates inside US borders

              • Gustave Lytton

                Y’all need to watch more spy movies.

              • MikeS

                Or read more Clancy.

              • Gustave Lytton

                I like the cut of your glib!

            • DEG

              Yep.

              Actually, I think I’m wrong. Probably ruining the “You know who else?” variant.

    • Rat on a train

      Camp Peary is too far for me to hear. I get the booms and overflights when there is training at AP Hill and can hear the big stuff from Quantico.

  9. Ted S.

    He did it again with Under the Mountain

    Not to be confused with Under the Volcano.

  10. MikeS

    Sweet! I really like Robert Conrad.

    /hits play

    • MikeS

      Nobody?

      • Ozymandias

        Loved that show as a kid. Perhaps not a surprise since I became a Marine aviator.

        • MikeS

          I need to see if it’s streaming somewhere.

          • Gender Traitor

            The Heroes & Icons cable channel shows it Saturday late afternoon in your time zone. They also have a separate streaming schedule, but I couldn’t find BSS listed – they show a different show streaming at that time.

        • MikeS

          I actually listened to that entire song. Bet I haven’t heard it for 40 years.

          Maybe I’ll listen again in another 40.

            • pistoffnick

              “…obsessed with a woman he can’t manage to meet, much less seduce.”

              Story of my life!

              • Mojeaux

                Awww! *sniffle*

  11. DEG

    The Mike Tyson of genetically modified sheep.

  12. DEG

    The Blonde lass’s face reminds me of Angela White’s face.

  13. DEG

    Oops… the Lee is a sporterized SMLE.

  14. DEG

    The safety wasn’t on, but I think it was uncocked.

  15. MikeS

    FYI: I dropped the DQR™©® in the previous post.

    • R.J.

      For a minute I thought that was an acronym for some type of bowel movement.

      • MikeS

        Daily Quarter-pounder Release.

        • R.J.

          Is that an 1/8 of a Couric?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh…I got an 18…

  16. CPRM

    The ‘baby’ sheep is reminiscent of the monkey rat, I bet Wetta did that on purpose.

  17. DEG

    Heh…. “dropped out.” “Missed exams”

  18. DEG

    I’m amused by the farm manager threatening people with an uncocked rifle.

  19. DEG

    “Anomalous” – quite the understatement.

  20. Lackadaisical

    Has anyone used strike man for training their shooting accuracy?

    What did you think?
    Any use for a novice?

    • EvilSheldon

      I’ve used similar systems. If you’re looking to train in slow-fire bullseye shooting, they can be a very useful training tool. I don’t find them to be terribly useful for practical-type shooting.

      • Lackadaisical

        Thanks.

  21. DEG

    Gotta go join a zoom. I’ll finish this tomorrow. Thanks RJ!

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Black Sheep, you say.

    Couldn’t be any worse than a lot of the stuff I’ve watched lately.

    • R.J.

      You will like it.

  23. R.J.

    Sorry, I have been prepping for another camping weekend. Not as available as I usually am.

    • Aloysious

      Dude. You have nothing to be sorry for. You rawk.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    Couple of things. Any SC glibs? We are looking about 2 years out and wifey has SC set in her brain.

    Also…here is hoping LA Kings knock out the Oilers and McJesus and Driedel.

    • Mojeaux

      Ask KK once she gets established.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh that’s right! Probably us and in laws…so buying power will be….good.

        Lots of 20 acre lands on lakes that I’m looking at.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I think Drake. robc moved away.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Ask in the AM threads. I think there is a dude, shirt and tie avatar, from SC that pops up occasionally.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    You will like it.

    I do.

    Laughing out loud.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      I think that is the only PF album I can still listen too anymore.

      • pistoffnick

        THERE IS NO BAD PINK FLOYD ALBUM!

        Roger Waters on his own kinda sucks.

  26. Count Potato

    Which Enter the Fat Dragon? 1978 or 2020?

    • R.J.

      2020.

      • Count Potato

        OK, thanks RJ!

        The movie was OK, but that blonde is adorable!

    • R.J.

      That was great!

    • juris imprudent

      Not disappointed.

  27. Sensei

    Sorry for the OT, but you have got to be kidding me…

    Roughly half of infant formula is purchased by about 1.2 million people using a federal assistance program known as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Biden administration said in a briefing Thursday. The Agriculture Department is now encouraging states to allow recipients to use their benefits on a wider array of formula products, as well as urging states to relax requirements on stores participating in the WIC program.

    Biden, lawmakers rush to address formula shortage

    50% of formula is subsidized? JFC.

    • Count Potato

      WTF?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wider array of formula products? What does that mean and why exactly aren’t they covered today? And what retailers aren’t participating in WIC? I assume it’s the same as Snap, which is everywhere including online and farmers markets.

      Are half of all pregnant women on WIC or is the government program pushing mothers to use their program? Or… formula is easily resold for cash on the gray market.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ummm…. Yes?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Why does that surprise you? We are tipped over on payers and takers

    • Brochettaward

      You know what’s really funny? There are retailers that have put limits on how much formula people can buy with the exception of those paying with WIC. So, if government is paying for you, you can buy as much as you want.

    • rhywun

      Ah, WIC.

      Savvy shoppers know not to get behind a customer with a carefully composed group of giant cans of formula, blocks of cheese, jars of peanut butter, and gallons of milk.

      The cashier is required to match the exact sizes and quantities and in some cases brands of items with the coupon provided. Discrepancies sometimes lead to heated arguments. Ask me how I know.

      • Brochettaward

        THEY ARE ENTITLED TO THAT CHEESE AND MILK! IT’S THEIR GOVERNMENT GRANTED RIGHT!

      • Mojeaux

        Savvy shoppers know not to get behind a customer with a carefully composed group of giant cans of formula, blocks of cheese, jars of peanut butter, and gallons of milk.

        Thankfully, in my brief stint as a weekend night-shift cashier at the grocery store, I did not have to do this often. Trust me, it’s worse for the cashier than it is for the people behind the WIC recipient.

        • rhywun

          I was the cashier in these repressed memories. In the 2nd poorest city in the country.

        • MikeS

          Young MikeS was a carry-out boy and got to bring multiple carts of groceries paid with WIC and food stamps out to cars far newer than what he was driving. Helped make me a libertarian.

    • Rat on a train

      Haven’t you ever been behind someone at the Walmart checkout. They have two carts. The first filled with WIC. The second full of steak, beer and other luxuries?

    • Rat on a train

      Haven’t you ever been behind someone at the Walmart checkout. They have two carts. The first filled with WIC. The second full of steak, beer and other luxuries?

  28. The Late P Brooks

    The mint jelly was a nice touch.

    • Count Potato

      Yes, that was funny.

  29. Brochettaward

    Some wise guy last night thought they were going to tell me how the supply and demand of Firsting works. This is like someone going up to Tom Brady and telling him they know a better way for him to throw a football.

    • Count Potato

      Like Dan Marino?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!”

      Bring a sword.

      • Chafed

        *pops corn*

  30. Evan from Evansville

    Sorry OT: People aren’t on the Evening Links. I’ll go about reading and watching!

    Folk here? Lady is VERY angry with me. Our friend’s cat was being a loud cunt last night. I TOUCHED HER WITH MY FOOT. I did not kick her. I brush and pet her with more vigor. Lady thinks I kicked her friend’s cat with violent abandon. I did not. She is pretty baked-in-stone about this. Tonight is another one for the hotel across the street. God, that cat was being a cunte. She’s quiet now! She was purring minutes afterwards, resting under the bed, where she tends to nap.

    But apparently I’m an animal abuser now. She’s going to tell her friend and I’m going to have to deal with that anger, despite me literally just gently brushing the cat away with my toe and a firm “Be quiet.”

    • Mojeaux

      Get your stuff. Go to the airport. Get on a plane.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        What Moje said. You can, so you must. Do it. Now.

        • slumbrew

          Listen to the nice lady and the dude withe the nice lady avatar – go.

          You know you need to anyway.

          Rip off the bandaid and go.

          We’ll see you stateside.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Nope. I am not doing that. Not just because of Lady and friends, but it is already triggering me (sorry that I use that term) to have yet another seizure. This is going to end up in a fine that my family will pay for me. Talked with interpreter/dentist today. It really is not that big of a deal. A fine is all that I’ll get. If I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. I’ve heard this from every person, lawyer, friend, interpreter, everyone. It costs FAR too much for my boss to actually adjudicate this.

      I have made many mistakes in life and this may be another one, in a series of events. I am not going through the stress of a $200 cab ride to the airport, a $600 flight, with the risk that THAT is where they throw me in the box, for not having any valid registration (though I do have my passport).

      I’ve lived here far too long to just disappear. Lady is still sleeping. I will not leave her with the likelihood that I’ll never see her again. Is this Ev being dumb? Most likely, with caveats. But I’m making my decision now. This is the hill that I (may) die on. I do not want to be evicted or thrown in a box. Play hard. Play smart. In that order. I’d rather see ten aggressive mistakes than one passive one. (See also: “Better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”

      It’s not that serious. It seems like it, but at worst, I tore up a piece of paper. “Destruction of property” is what the police papers, hilariously, say. The US embassy is on my side. The Koreans are not about to throw me in jail for tearing a piece of paper. The CCTV clearly shows that I didn’t start anything. They attacked me. I didn’t even push them, in response.

      Am I being stupid? Probably. I accept that. I cannot accept being placid, complacent, and bending the knee.

      I JUST NOW got a message from my friend who linked me to the lawyer. My parents sent a letter to our interpreter and talked about my and their bad health/age. Seniority has greater influence here. They responded to her immediately.

      “Today, the lawyer will submit a lawyer’s opinion requesting the prosecution office to close the investigation early.”

      We shall see where this goes. Onward, upward, always.

      • tripacer

        Excelsior!

  31. hayeksplosives

    One of the PhD students who taught the break-out sessions on behalf of an engineering professor was from Scotland. (Note: the full class was 300 people in an auditorium, so the small sessions were opportunities to be with just 25 students to work on problems and ask questions of the doctoral students.)

    Somebody teased him with a sheep-fucking joke. He proceeded to explain that the technique was to corral the target sheep toward an obstacle, like a rocky outcrop or stone fence corner, with the sheep facing the obstacle. Then you start rodgering the sheep. The sheep had no choice but to back up to get away, thus intensifying the experience for the sheep fucker.

    To this day I don’t know if he was pulling our legs or giving us life advice.

    • Evan from Evansville

      ” I don’t know if he was pulling our legs or giving us life advice.”

      Try it out. Tell us the results. It might be valuable.

      *Grabs notepad. Waits.*

    • CPRM

      *Remembers the field trip to cattle insemination facility*

    • Gustave Lytton

      “One in the hand beats two in the bush!”

      • CPRM

        Whoa, sheep threesomes go a bit to far. Sheep fucking is all fine and good, but when it’s a threesome, that’s just wrong!

        • Evan from Evansville

          Darling, you’re such a Newbie. It’s a Sheep-some. Some sheep. They add up. Ask Ben Franklin. Just put a barrel over their face. Pussy stay pink, yo. Two at a time, with me in the middle? Well. Now you’re just describing my daily routine.

  32. CPRM

    I failed to provide THIS Musical Link earlier.

  33. CPRM

    27 years. That’s a long time. Never took my chance. Dreamed about her again last week. I haven’t even seen her in over a year. The next week she parks next to me at the store. Life is weird.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’m not sure how I’d react to ‘the one’

      • CPRM

        Living in a small town, it’s even worse. Other girls used the known fact that I was into her as an excuse to turn me down. Even later in life it reared it’s head in the same way after I moved back. But, as far as I know she is happily married. And, in a true genitalmanly (sp not an accident) that in itself brings some kind of solace.

    • Festus

      Sometimes regret provides it’s own form of solace. I’m pretty sure that we have all been there.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I couldn’t think of a worse job than pumping gas all day every day ‘cept maybe assistant fluffer on an adult movie set. They need to release these people from their personal hells.

    • Grosspatzer

      “Sunoco, 456 Route 17 North, Ramsey.”

      Fillin’ up today.

  34. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Glibs.

    The weather’s turned Ugh here. I’m waking up to a muggy 64 and have highs threatening 90.

    Only last week it was freezing. Where is my spring?

    • Sean

      Morning ☕?

      • UnCivilServant

        I have to drag myself into the office. I barely managed to drag myself out of bed.

        • UnCivilServant

          Well, I made it to the office.

          I’d rather be back home finishing up the mini I’ve been working on.

    • Grosspatzer

      Finally fired up the AC yesterday, it’s getting mugly. Ordered a two-year supply of filters, anticipating price increases. Can’t get a two year supply of electricity, though ☹️

    • Not Adahn

      There is no spring here. There is a small break between winter and early summer, but that’s it. Very similar to TX, though they have an unnamed “not summer” season instead of “winter.”

      OK has a legitimate spring.

  35. Rat on a train

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      • Rat on a train

        Are you copying me? No cheating!

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  37. Festus

    I’ve been on a 70’s soft rock jag for the last few days. I really dig this one – https://youtu.be/SXW-sL5gzHQ The mellotron and groupies are a great touch but the drummer’s beard is totally on point. I listened to it three times at work last night.

    • Festus

      And yes, yes I did wear denim bib overalls a few times back then. I can live with the shame.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I don’t dig 70s soft rock but I do appreciate the Lindsay Buckinghamish hair and beards. That was tolerable though, just please don’t start linking stuff from The Best of Bread.

      • Festus

        I’m not THAT far gone. I just dig bands like that one and Steely Dan.

    • Grosspatzer

      Porn soundtrack?

      • Festus

        The Gainsayer gets it!

  38. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates.

    Survived my excursion to Manhattan unscathed, came home with a sackful of goodies from my desk i had forgotten I had. Not one, but two sets of headphones, a personalized rollerball that got left behind, couple of coffee mugs…

    Masks required on NJ transit and NYC subways. Not being enforced, however. I’d estimate about 70% masked on subway, 25% on the buses. Only place I had to mask was the office, a requirement for the unclean and I’m not inclined to lose my job over that.

    • Festus

      Ugh. We’re Government adjacent so still masking. One more thing I won’t miss about it. Glib-Fit is going to crater.

      • Festus

        Ah well, like they always say, “The reason a door slams shut behind you is usually when the windows implode.” This is fine.

  39. UnCivilServant

    Now I’m wondering if wordpress supports cuneiform

    ?? ???

    • UnCivilServant

      Although that really transliterates as Helu Uurda.

      I misplaced the L in ‘world’ and I should have gone with a ‘duh’ sign to end on.

      • Gender Traitor

        So… how many cubits of grain does that indicate?

        • Gender Traitor

          (cubic cubits?)

          • UnCivilServant

            No idea, but I might recycle ‘Helu Uurda’ as a placename in a story.

  40. Gender Traitor

    Greetings from Tranquility Base! Taking today off and making up for at least one of the chilly weekend mornings lately when it was too cold to come out and enjoy this. Lotsa “smale foweles maken melodye,” and a hummer has already appeared at the feeder.

    I wish all of you good luck this Friday the 13th! ?

    • Grosspatzer

      Mornin’, GT!

      “smale foweles maken melodye”

      My morning soundtrack. Carolina wrens are my favorite. “Cheater, cheater, cheater.”

      And there’s nothing like a hummer!

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, ‘patzie! Wide variety of avian utterances on display, and I’m ashamed to say I can’t identify them…except for that distinct “caw-ing” off to my right.

      • UnCivilServant

        There is one species around here that has a two-tone call that really grates on my nerves.

        • Rat on a train

          A whip-poor-will calling outside you window at night is annoying.

    • UnCivilServant

      Darn Chirpy Birdies
      dar/ni ku/ru/pi bur/dis
      ?? ??? ??

    • Rat on a train

      a hummer has already appeared at the feeder
      Electric, gas or diesel?

      I put feeders at front and back for the little guys this year. Last year there was quite a territorial dispute over the one in the front.

      • Gender Traitor

        I have two feeders, but I foolishly left them out all winter, and I haven’t managed to pry the rubber stopper back out of the glass one to refill it. The plastic one is out and has multiple openings, but I don’t recall ever seeing more than one hummer there at a time. Sometimes s/he tries to act all badass and squeak at me between drinks – “Back off, bitch!” I refuse to be intimidated.

        • UnCivilServant

          For some reason, I have a hard time imagining hummingbirds actually making noise.

          • robodruid

            himmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • Festus

      The chickadees always sing “Cheeseburger”

  41. robodruid

    Good Morning all.
    I should have watched this movie. No new sheep.
    Successfully extracted milk from the cow. I also hope for a quiet 13th for everyone.

    • UnCivilServant

      The cow which dislikes you?

      • robodruid

        The very same.
        Wife, two kids from the neighbors who know how to move cows and I moved her into a small pen.
        Got her halter back on her face.
        Tied her to post, milked her two days ago.
        Then last night I got the rope on her halter, got her secured to post, and we milked her into a pail.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘bodru! Has your bottle-fed lambie rejoined the flock outside yet? Or is it still wreaking havoc and general mayhem in your office? ?

      • robodruid

        Yesterday mourning I went into my office to find she was on top of my desk. I had to move her out.
        Just fed her.
        She is outside in the back yard in a chicken run.

        • Gender Traitor

          in a chicken run

          Obligatory.

        • Gender Traitor

          she was on top of my desk

          She obviously identifies as a cat.

    • Fourscore

      Gonna be a good Fri-13. 3 appointments today scheduled, Mrs F’s final check up at the oral surgeon, me a haircut, truck an oil change. Stars are aligned perfectly with a lunch in the middle.

      While not a big deal, it’s a $16 worth of gas to make that trip so I wanted to accomplish everything in one trip.

    • Rat on a train

      My understanding is if it goes, we all go, so no need to plan for it.