33 minutes ago, Starlord said:

 

This needs to be written up as a Toon adventure.

 

Snarky comeback: Yeah, it was the 7th Panzer Division.

In answer to Cancer

 

Factual answer is that the Tour de France predates the invention of tanks. It was Maurice Gann in 1903.

Edited June 7, 20241 yr by death tribble

Or Helmut von Moltke. 

I’m more a fan of his great-grandnephew Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. 

 

12 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

Peter Watts used the same notion in his SF novel Blindsight, which is well worth reading for other reasons too. I don't know whether Blindsight or Castlevania came out first.

 

Dean Shomshak

I know Pratchett did the reverse in Carpe Jugulum, where the father vampire kept showing every type of religious symbol to his wife and children to build up immunity. At the end, after

I ain’t been vampired. You’ve been Weatherwaxed. All of you.

every little crack or anything looked like a religious symbol, only now they worked.

4 hours ago, BoloOfEarth said:

 

I didn't know people her age still read dead wood.

42 minutes ago, slikmar said:

I know Pratchett did the reverse in Carpe Jugulum, where the father vampire kept showing every type of religious symbol to his wife and children to build up immunity. At the end, after

I ain’t been vampired. You’ve been Weatherwaxed. All of you.

every little crack or anything looked like a religious symbol, only now they worked.

 

Wide coverage is prudent.

 

 

Appearing in my front-page "news"feed, a collection of AI-generated caricatures of Americans, state by state. Most of us are, of course, fat.

 

(Rhode Island actually comes off pretty well. So do the Dakotas; which are just landscapes/skyscapes with a tiny person in the distance.)

 

I Asked AI What Europeans Think Americans From Every Single State Look Like, And The Results Are Just Plain Mean (msn.com)

 

Dean Shomshak

So, Mother Mary it number 1. 

Willy Wonka: [unenthusiastically] Stop. Don't. Come back.