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A Reflectorism a day keeps humour in play

"The Greenville City Council rezoned 11.34 acres on the north side of East 10th Street/N.C. 33 to allow commercial development on Thursday night."
- The Daily Reflector, June 10, 2011

I wonder since the commercial development will only occur on Thursday nights, what will go on the other days of the week‽

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Employee steels from Burger King

Yet another classic Reflectorism:
Crime: Employee steels from Burger King

some days, it's like they just can't stop themselves:
Working his way back to the bigs

Man for Fish

It is hard to teach man to fish
When there are no fish

Fish for Man

It is hard to teach man to fish
Who starved for want of fish

Pyramid

Now round.

Shred 'n' Bash O

drippin' manic pond
jumpin' froggy purple haze
jimmies depression

Rapture

rapture
noun
When the end of the world did not take place.

What's your gut feeling on this?

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

Feeling a little testy today?

FCC Consumer Broadband Test
Some others

Поехали

“The main thing is that there is sausage—to go with the moonshine.”
—Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин 12 April 1961

States Rights

The cause of the Civil War
had nothing more to do with slavery
than facts have to do with reality.

Kōan

SHUT 'ER ¡DOWN!

Cookie Jar

"A CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier are at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 and says to the Tea Partier: 'Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your cookie.'" - unknown

穿越搜索

Possibly available today only: Google Teleportation

Metrics

How do you know your data do reflect
the truth that lies behind the shadow scene
and not mere side-effects of your technique
a stagnant pool reflecting not enlight?

Shocking New Information Revealed

Captured members of the forces of القذافي‎ are shocked to discover they are fighting fellow Libyans rather than agents of Israel's Mossad, and Tunisian, Egyptian and Syrian fighters on hallucinogenic drugs.
from The Times of India

Next up ... Disappointed Bombers Distressed (to learn the truth about the virgins awaiting them in the afterlife)

Harmon's First Hypothesis

ἀξίωμα If you defer choice on anything to anyone else, they will always choose whatever they perceive to be in their own best interest.

ὑπόθεσις Regardless of what they choose, they will never make the best choice for your own self interest.

Jimmy Wong Library Song

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Jimmy Wong

Alexandra Wallace

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古琴

ブリーチ

Big Moon Rising

I see the big moon arising
I see trouble go away
I see earthquakes enlightening
I see good times today

Go outside tonight
Well, it's bound to change your life,
There's a big moon on the rise.

It is so tiny now

http://tinyurl.com/harmonieux

Entrenched Stupidity

Phrase of the day:
"... entrenched stupidity ..."
-Adam Gopnik
Just think of the myriad ways you could use this phrase.

News

It all sucks and is sooo depressing that my new year's resolution is to completely ignore it.

My Partner's Brandy Manhattan

Cocktail glass
Orange twist
Cointreau wash
2 oz. St-Rémy VSOP Brandy
¾ oz. Martini & Rossi red vermouth
dash Fee Brother's Old Fashion Aromatic bitters
Luxardo Maraschino Cherry
3-4 ice cubes

Place 3-4 ice cubes in pitcher or cocktail shaker.

Add bitters, vermouth, and brandy.

Rinse cocktail glass with Coinreau, press oil from orange twist on rim and discard, place cherry in glass.

Stir liquids and strain into glass.

Sip and enjoy!

Hypnagogic

Can you pare the story of your life to six words or less.

Two eleven two thousand eleven

Happy two eleven two thousand eleven! (2/11/2011) :)

Shimotsuma Monogatari (Shimotsuma Story)

Current favorite movie: 下妻物語

No, I can't tell you why.

Project Management Too

Q. Why are vegetarians so poor at project management?
A. They're made too nervous by all the steak holders!

Project Management

Q. Why are vampires so poor at project management?
A. They're made too nervous by all the stake holders!

Are you exhausted yet‽

Freyja dag nótt

An oðer Freyja dag nótt
and I ain't got no body
Got no money
ðo I just got paid

For Tea Too

Q. What's Joie de vivre?
A. 101010

Mr Winston

10-9-1940

Entropy

Things Fall Apart

¬℈ς

not scruple s

Some Cats

Left in the Twentieth Century

I left the Twentieth Century
and you lay there beneath me your
words, unhappy when you fell asleep.

Hear is everything I can do about it.

Feel hopeful. Face your
beauty that I must start
to rescribe it, hope here the thing
I do will make you happy while
you sleep.

To have and to hold till death does ðe part

Haves argue amongst themselves over the best method of preserving what they have stolen from have-nots and stealing whatever little remains to them; however, in the end they always manage to do it anyway.

Have-nots always argue amongst themselves over the best method of stealing what little they have from each other; however, in the end haves take all of it.

Still
death comes calling to take it all
not one atom of matter remains
not one glimmer of thought remains
not one passing spirit wind remains
not even remains remains

and our little speck of dust in the middle of nowhere
keeps hurtling along to the nowhere
where not even s he remain s till

Xificurc

Don't cry for me, Argentina, seeing me so grave

This little space was hollow and thundered
By Lucid eccentric, ice broken ground
Father, Father, are you ‽
Mother, Mother, cry, cry!

Michael struggled, cried, moaned
Peter sank deep the golden lance ...
Only One, We're an other alone,
None dare cast the true chance ▽

Ordo Præditorum Priorities

Art. 5

The more grave delict of the attempted sacred ordination of a woman is also reserved to the [Roman Inquisition]: ...

Art. 6

§ 1. The more grave delicts against morals which are reserved to the [Roman Inquisition] are:

1° the delict against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue committed by a cleric with a minor ...

—NORMÆ SUBSTANTIALES

Song of my sort

Let the snake wait while
the weed
the writhing
bee

slow & quick
sharp & strike
quiet & wait
sleepness—

threw
met a four two wreck on I'll
the man & the stoned

Composing no ideas
but the thing itself

Revent!

Sex I rage is my power
that splits
and rocks

Misses Hippy

Striving 4
precise ambiguity

f just achieving

muddy waters

well ...

Muddy Waters was petty good

Cocu

Woody, so long, bare

Cuckoo!

Up and woody, I know where
Two ones fall.
Yet I and him are all
His phantasy.

Cuckoo!

I too,
here,
I sing merry as can be
I who dare,
Great and careless love, I laugh at care,
And since
You're gone

Cuckoo!

In woods grow weary,
In scented woods, drowsy, call

Cuckoo!

Woody, so long, bare

A is for

A is for Ass
B is for Bum
C is for call me when you want to come

D is for Danny
E is for Ed
F is for (guess this one!)

G is for George
H is for Harmon
I is for my self I guess I'm this one

J is for Jack
K is for Kool
L is for Love which makes all a fool

M is for May
N is for No
O is for OhOhOhOhOhOH O!

P is it self
Q is so queer
R is behind it self in the rear

S is for someday
T is Tom or row
U has now left behind me in sorrow

V is so Vexing
W is so Why
X is the rating for life by and by

Y is still Y
Z en the end

Spirit of 76

Happy Birthday Kongi!

L'amour fatigué

I'm tired of money all the time

I still love love
I still love rhyme

A little twist,
another shout

enraptured pleasure all the time.

The Even Load

I will not try broad reach again,
I will not sale before the wind,
No more my place bereft of men
Earda's farm wi' men thinned

Butt I will sit beside the fire,
And there, to fill my heart's desire,
Put my hand between my thighs,
The last of all our youless he's

Quiet evening kept his tryst:
Beneath an open sky we rode,
And passed into a cloudy mist
Along the perfect even load.

The salt even load that needs
Met O's gush to near the sound
Of waters mingling in the Reids,
And binds my heart to share his ground.

A lovely river, all alone,
He lingers in the hills and holes
A hundred little scents of tone,
Are gotten in the best end roles.

Baba Zumbi

I never liked hip-hop.

Of all the hip-hop I've previously heard
since some time in the '70s
there were two songs I liked
and I've forgotten both of them.

Hip-hop, basically dance music, I always hated disco.

Current commercial hip-hop is basically misogynistic шitty disco with foul language and buggery thuggery attitude.

So, someone had to come along an' prove me completely wrong.

Here he is: Baba Zumbi & here Zion I Crew

No, I'm not saying he's sell-out commercial, I'm saying he's made music that's witty not шitty and I enjoy listening to.
Three of the first songs of his I've listened to gave me the spine-tingling-emotion thrill thing and off hand I can't think of any current musician that's done that.

AMoral Alphabet (excerpt)

D: The Dashing Danny Boy he
Will he do his best for D.
The early bird observed with awe
His back, glistening sweat he saw.
His look was gay, his voice was strong;
His tail was neither short nor long;
His trunk most elongated nose,
Was large enough I would suppose;
His teeth, as O. the Wilde allows
With tongue he covers like a cow's
He often liked and swished to pass
Long peaceful nights smoking' the Grass,
A splash of brute, mad love preferred
To pop in baths without a bird
His creature slimier than the snail
You see at once it will not fail
To joy gladly when he slid
And tumbled (as he nightly did).
Then leave off with the morning light
Returning home; served up just right.

MORAL
If you were born to walk the streets
Remain there; fool around.

E stands for Ego

Algernon

Young Algernon, the Proctor's son,
was playing with his loaded gun
pointed towards space
aimed violently and
blasted there!

His friend who was studying near,
the loud exaltation close heard
and recommended Algernon
be playing with his loaded gun.

A Trinity

Of three in One and One in three
My open mind was doubting thee
Till Bobby, George, and Kenny met
And all were one in body sweat

Forever Boo

Spirit spinning
on top of bottom
all haint
time you
live within
me

Nine things without space

Hisknight

Thunder ParT Not in Lightning

For sake 'n' forking from the old
love for the other lost
runny mouth
complaining all the time
unlike so manly
people
we respect

US Treaty with Tripoli, 1796 - Article 11; first phrase

Article 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; ... —US Treaty with Tripoli, 1796 - Article 11

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
Annals of Congress, 5th Congress
Pages 3095 & 3096 of 3970

The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796

Dominique, mon bon Petit fils, garde-nous simples et gais

Dominique, mon bon Petit fils, garde-nous simples et gais
Pour annoncer a nos freres la Vie et la Verite

To my partner’s queerying eye, I reply

To my partner’s queerying eye, I reply
since we met there’s been no one other than you
and old Writey.

When just a boy his acquaintance I made
his strength held my youth and he gladly gave
since then we’ve been inseparable.

Even you knew when we met long ago
he’d never able keep his hand off me
and time to time
you’ve made his acquaintance too.

Now is he old, gnarled, and worn from long use
I can not abandon him, nor would I
I hope he'll be with me rest of my life
I could not bare it any other way!

Harmonious Law of Secrets

For a secret to have any value, it will be know by a sufficient number of people that one or more of them will reveal the secret.

Christianity Today

Chapter and verse

“ως και εν πασαις ταις επιστολαις λαλων εν αυταις περι τουτων εν οις εστιν δυσνοητα τινα α οι αμαθεις και αστηρικτοι στρεβλουσιν ως και τας λοιπας γραφας προς την ιδιαν αυτων απωλειαν”

“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:16 KJV)

Green Fairy

Tonight the fairy's green.

My Martini (Dirty)

Cocktail glass
1¼ oz. Bombay gin
¾ oz. Noilly Prat white vermouth
generic green olive & liquid
3 capers
6-7 ice cubes

Wash hands with soap.

Place 6-7 ice cubes in pitcher or cocktail shaker.

Add vermouth, gin.

Stir.

Strain into cocktail glass.

Pick olive from olive jar by hand with slight amount of liquid and drop into glass.

Pick 3 capers with spoon handle from jar and drop into glass.

Sip and enjoy!

My Manhattan

Cocktail glass
Orange twist
Cointreau wash
2 oz. Old Overholt rye whiskey
¾ oz. Martini & Rossi red vermouth
dash Angostura bitters
Luxardo Maraschino Cherry
3-4 ice cubes

Place 3-4 ice cubes in pitcher or cocktail shaker.

Add bitters, vermouth, and whiskey.

Rinse cocktail glass with Coinreau, press oil from orange twist on rim and discard, place cherry in glass.

Stir liquids and strain into glass.

Sip and enjoy!

Extensive farming

ְּבֵזַעת
ַאֶּפיָך
תֹאַכל
ֶלֶחם
ַעד
שּוְבָך
ֶאל
־
ָהֲאָדָמה

Weird Facts

Nitroglycerin is used as a treatment for anal fissure.

Blasted Can is Wend

That little cur
The hellish beast
With gaping one eye
Lies a heap in the east.

That cur slinks low
All the way to the west
All morals he's dropped
Afoot on his chest.

Richly human
Today I will sing,
Of the bastard cur
I'll not think a thing!

rekroWorker

Nashing Lee
Nasty Quirk

You don't want
to work

you have
to work

to earn
enough money
to learn

you won't have
to work

in the end
Māmōnā piles
lie cold

Cerddoriaeth

Musique
i find i prefer jazz as it lets me feel much more pretentious particularly when i can listen to it on a french language station

Yr Dolendwy Kin Gore

Two ears wear
Cant yr bear
No either
Yr wear
Good rede here‽

J.D. Thou Still

Need the warl' ken
Comin thro' the rye‽

Ye know on earth,
& all ye need to now.

Honestly

You can't earn a million dollars.

Pax Gaia

Today I'll not harm þee
Perhaps þrough day
Ƿouldst þou not harmest me?

Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice

Time for climate justice

Join the fight for Climate Justice

email your politician

Joie de vivre

Ahh, The Great Joy of Life!

Eat
Poo
Sleep

Repeat until finished

Mr Winston

10-9-1940

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

When everyone's probin' an asshole,
things get backed up!

Mr. Addison Graves Wilson, Sr. (R - SC)

Were I to call you a

disgraceful,
disrespectful,
son-of-a-bitch, you might think I was
disrespecting you.

On that matter, you'd
be on the right!

Youthful Intelligence

In youth my intelligence 160 quite high
Yet in age I've dropped but one digit

Unfortunately, it is the one on the left

You Lie!

score 2½

being
am i
still

won tin

be tween
be tween
be tween
be tween
be tween

tin tin

still
i am
being

Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform so far as I have observed it

Mr. Obama: Our health care system as it currently exists will not provide adequate care to all Americans. Expenses are growing disproportionally, many currently insured Americans will lose their insurance and those who are uninsured are already not being provided for. Even for those who remain insured, the current rate of growth in cost will stagnate the economy and bankrupt many businesses.

We need to work together to find a plan that will work for all Americans.

I propose that your elected representatives of all parties in the Congress of these United States work together and come up with a plan to fix this problem.

Socialist in Congress: (Sen. Bernie Sanders - VT) OK.

Democrats in Congress: Why don't we keep busy and look like we're doing something but not do anything and maybe no one will notice and maybe this problem will go away so we don't get blamed for anything.

Republicans in Congress: Hey, this is a great opportunity! What we can do is completely bugger up this process, that is what we're so good at. We won't offer any useful suggestions, we'll obstruct everything we can, and we'll rabidly criticize everything that is or isn't done. That way when it fails we'll be able to blame Democrats for it failing!
(Backbencher voice: Hey, don't forget that damn socialist, he is a SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST, not only that, he's also LIBERAL, LIBERAL, LIBERAL, LIBERAL, LIBERAL! So anything he says is PURE EVIL and will KILL OLD PEOPLE! and MURDER SMALL CUTE ANIMALS AND BABIES!).

Insurance industry: If we don't continue to get our huge profits, any plan that you come up with will be LIBERAL EUROPEAN ATHEIST NAZI COMMUNIST SOCIALISM^[1]! If you change anything at all, any plan you come up with will:
KILL OLD PEOPLE^[2]!! and
MURDER SMALL CUTE ANIMALS AND BABIES^[3]!!! and
YOU'LL BE FORCED TO GO TO DOCTORS THEY TELL YOU TO GO TO^[4]!!!! and
YOU'LL BE DENIED PROCEDURES^[5]!!!!! and
YOU'LL DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH IN PAIN AND AGONY^[6]!!!!!!

Insurance industry fine print:
[1] as opposed to our current Mammon-worshiping fascist system
[2] as opposed to the old people we kill because we don't cover them and/or deny them coverage and/or drop their coverage as soon as they become ill
[3] as opposed to the children and babies we currently murder because we don't cover them and/or deny them coverage and/or drop their coverage as soon as they become ill
[4] as opposed to the doctors we force you to go to because we don't cover the one you want and/or deny you coverage and/or drop your coverage as soon as you become ill
[5] as opposed to the procedures we deny you
[6] as opposed to the bankruptcy, pain, agony, and death of our current system

Mou Write Now

now

ask what
do you do
to live

to live
i eat
i digest

then i
return
refined effects
to you

ood

Abyss

Standing
at abyss edge
I look back

across the wide plain
to distant hills
whence I came

no one of thousands
who were behind me
still stand

not even dust
of one
footprint
remains

looking right
only the distant
horizon

looking left
the same
scene

Below my feet
stretches immeasurable space
far below
its end
hidden in shade

Above me nothing
but empty sky

Standing
here
at chasm edge
a loan

armónico = harmonious

armónico = harmonious
Spanish Word A Day

§ 9.08.010 Razing Canne Bridge

May I all ways
behave myself

in a rude
and disorderly manner

speaking indecent,
profane
and insulting language

in every street
and public place.

May I for ever
make
and cause to be made,

GREAT unnecessary noise
and noises

in every public street,
private way
and park.

May all I do
cause GREAT inconvenience
and discomfort

to the inhabitants
of any unjust City.

A Poem of Chastity, Morality, Decency, & Good Order

Common night walkers,
common street walkers,
both male and female,

common railers and brawlers,

persons who with offensive and disorderly acts
or language
accost or annoy
persons of the opposite sex,

lewd, wanton and lascivious persons
in speech or behavior,

idle and disorderly persons,
disturbers of the peace,

keepers of noisy and disorderly houses,
and persons guilty of indecent exposure

in these Massachusetts reside.

Swinging Gates

Officer C:
the witness told 911 there were two black men breaking into the house

LW, the witness:
I never described the race of the men in the 911 call other than after repeated request by the operator that I thought one of them could be Hispanic and I wasn't even sure they were breaking into the house, they may have just been having trouble with a stuck door

Officer C:
the witness told me while we were standing at the front of the house that she'd seen two black men breaking into the house

LW, the witness:
No I didn't

Officer C:
I was afraid and concerned for my life when I saw a 5'6" 150 lb old cripple man with a cane standing in his home
because he was black

Dr. G:
I was afraid and concerned for my life when I saw a 6' 5" 270 lb young white policeman standing on my porch and demanding I come outside the safety of my home
because he had a gun

Officer C:
G. told me that I had no idea who I was "messing" with

Dr. G:
No I didn't

Officer C:
G. made threats and said he wasn't someone to be messed with

Dr. G:
No I didn't

Officer C:
G. said "ya, I'll speak with your mama outside"

Dr. G:
No I didn't

Officer C:
G. was a loud angry black man, and tumultuous

Dr. G:
No I wasn't (well, I guess maybe I may be a black man, but initially I was tired not angry, and I was not loud and ... who uses a word like "tumultuous" anyway ...)

Officer C:
He was loud to the public when I arrested him for disorderly conduct and his loud behavior served no legitimate purpose

Dr. G:
After over 230 years of white American policemen hauling away black men many of whom were never seen again or if they were, frequently they were battered and beaten before arriving at a police station perhaps it would be good if some of my neighbors noticed a huge angry white policeman hauling me away in a black maria?

White people conclusion:
the officer was white (oops, I meant right) and we support him regardless of the facts

Black people conclusion:
mannn.... here we go again ....

Average Conservative conclusion:
Obviously race and abuse of power by the police had nothing to do with this incident it is just that when the honest officer was attempting to do his duty and help this ingrate the ingrate was just too stupid to realize how high he was supposed to jump when the master said jump

Slightly more Conservative conclusion (radio-talk show level, southern politician level):
Where's the rope?

Radical Leftist conclusion:
Police are racist pigs

Liberal conclusion:
This situation could have been handled better.

Reasonable conclusion:
Officer C. demonstrated a certain lack of professionalism and veracity.
One might describe some of his actions as stupid.

Anchors Aweigh

An ethical journalist
put bias and prejudice aside
attempting
to really be fair
to all sides
at all times

... and that's the way it was.
Walter Cronkite 1916-2009

Beef with Broccoli

Faithfully Standing Out

“I hope and pray that there won’t be decisions in the coming days that will push us further apart.”
—Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

People of faith stand by what they believe.

If what you believe is over there
and if what I believe is over here

Sometimes we must stand apart.

與扇貝的蒸的雞蛋

Placopecten magellanicus

Mercenaria mercenaria

Lynndie England

And here's to you, Lynndie England
Jesus loves you more than you will know (wo, wo, wo)
God bless you please, Lynndie England
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
(Hey, hey, hey ... hey, hey, hey)

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll round and round 'til you feel back home

And here's to you, Lynndie England
Jesus loves you more than you will know (wo, wo, wo)
God bless you please, Lynndie England
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
(Hey, hey, hey ... hey, hey, hey)

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Torture in your pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret, just Bush 43's affair
Most of all, you've got to hide it from all US

Coo, coo, ca-choo, Lynndie England
Jesus loves you more than you will know (wo, wo, wo)
God bless you please, Lynndie England
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
(Hey, hey, hey ... hey, hey, hey)

Naked knees on floor on a Sunday afternoon
Following presidential order
Laugh about it, flash about it
When you've got to choose
Ev'ry way you look at it, you lose

Where have you gone, Donald Rumsfield
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (woo, woo, woo)
What's that you say, Lynndie England
Darlin' Don has left and gone away
(Hey, hey, hey ... he abandoned you today)

In the balance

A lit 'ell of ever, 'e think
the hole of no think.

A little of everything
the whole of nothing.