@carl669 it is a spider

@CaptAmehrican

@CaptAmehrican Oh, so there it is… I was wondering where it had gone to!

@ELUNO

@OldCatLady What kind of candy? That could be an unblame, actually.

@narfcake Caloric, chocolate, and irresistible.

@OldCatLady hmm I will help you resist. Send it to me LOL

@Kidsandliz Two days later, it’s no longer available.

@OldCatLady My parents used to make us put our candy in the chest freezer and we only got 2 pieces a day (after eating our fill Halloween night). We used to accuse each other of stealing each other’s candy (4 kids close in age). Nope. We found out years later our parents were the candy thieves. LOL

@f00l No tacos?! Yeah, that’s a valid blame.

@snapster Do automatic taco making machines for the home exist yet? For commercial use, probably, since there’s a patent for one … but I can’t imagine that would’ve been kickstarter-level affordable.

@narfcake
For street tacos, ideally you need some fresh warm soft tortillas (pref whole grain, corn or flour); grilled spiced “main course” something to go inside; grilled or fresh, sliced or shredded veggies (my stand includes cabbage); perhaps some shredded cheese; a few avocado slices; a few lime slices; perhaps some jalapeño/cilantro sauce or similar.

If you have a grill, maybe you already have a home taco maker.

@f00l Oh yeah, I have no issues making real tacos myself and not the abominations at the chain places – but it still takes work. If there was was an automatic, that’d be so much easier.

Sure, I could always go out and buy some, but the good tacos in my city are in the areas which I wouldn’t venture into at night.

@narfcake
Your city has no Taco Trucks everywhere, and no Food Truck Parks?

That’s painful.

My fav taco truck place has two sit-down places with a slightly larger menu. You can buy the sauces there to take home. So good. Everything is fresh fresh fresh.

One of the perma-locations does Karaoke En Español on the weekends, or they used to. That loc is in an awesome full-on Hispanic mall

@f00l Nope – no taco trucks on every corner. There’s enough taquerias around to probably not make it worthwhile for the operators; they definitely stand to make more money where there’s less competition.

@narfcake
And none of the taquerias are any good? V surprised.

@f00l No, they’re totally fine. I just don’t feel comfortable going if it’s late at night. Crime isn’t as bad as it was 20-30 years ago, but still.

@f00l What are the names of your favorite taco trucks & where are they located?

@compunaut
Salsa Limón

From the website:
Salsa Limón is utterly committed to serving unapologetically Mexico City style tacos. Pushing the limits of quality and flavor to the highest levels. Call us a taco cult, call us “los chilangos,” call us the finest professional taqueria.

(You want to try the sauce that’s a creamy light green color. So good I could drink it. Have drunk it, I should say.
Warning, that sauce is a little hot, but not very hot, if you always eat the hot sauce and the jalapeños you’ll be fine. If not, they have a sauce that not hot. And two sauces that are really hot.)

Restaurant locations
LOCATIONS AND HOURS

La Gran Plaza
4200 S. Fwy Suite 1099
Fort Worth, Texas 76115
(Inside Mall across from Cine America)
(This is the one that used to do weekend karaoke. Hope it still does.)
817-921-4435
Mon-Th 10am-9pm
Fri-Sat 10am-2:45am
Sun 10am-10pm

Berry
3017 Morton St.
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
(across from the Museum of Modern Art)
817-675-2519
Mon-Th 7am-11pm
Fri-Sat 7am-3am
Sun 7am-9pm

Universidad
3005 S. University Dr.
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
(across from TCU)
817-923-2377
Mon-Wed 7am-11pm
Th-Fri 7am-3am
Sat 9am-3am
Sun 9am-10pm

Coming soon: downtown
Centro - COMING SOON!
550 Throckmorton St.
Fort Worth, Texas 76102

Press
http://www.salsalimon.com/press/
Menu
http://www.salsalimon.com/menu-1/
Catering:
They do food truck catering and pick-up catering.

Trucks (I think they have more than 1):

The Salsa Limón truck I most frequently see is at the SW corner of Oak Park and Hulen on Tuesdays. (Near Hulen & Bellaire)
I don’t know where the Salsa Limón truck and s at other times. Next time I go (ie next time I see them), I’ll ask them.

Food trucks and Tacos

Info below will concentrate in S-SW-W FW near the University and nightlife areas. But they are everywhere more or less. People like them. So many city govts are cooperative.

More food trucks:
I have been to some of these;
None bad so far:
…

Food Trucks - Stationary
…
Taco Heads
1812 Montgomery
76107
(Near the Science Museum)

Fort Worth Food Park
Food Court
2509 Weisenberger St
76107
(Behind Target in the old Monkey Wards Plaza on 7th Street)
Has a variety
Fri-Sat. 11am -10pm
Sunday. 11am - 8pm
https://m.facebook.com/fwfoodpark/

Clear Fork Food Truck Park
Food Court
1541 Merrimack Circle
76107
)Across University from the Apple Store)
Monday Closed
Tuesday. Closed
Wednesday. 11AM–2PM. 5–9PM
Thursday. 11AM–2PM. 5–9PM
Friday 11AM–9PM
Saturday 11AM–9PM
Sunday 11AM–8PM
http://www.clearforkfoodpark.com/

Primo’s Tacos Food Trailer
1200 Henderson
76102
(Near Downtown)

Food Trucks Mobile
…
Here is a directory. Try it for lunch or evening hours.
Salsa Limón is in the directory.
https://www.foodtrucksin.com/city/fort-worth_tx

Some other links
http://dallas.eater.com/2015/6/10/8756897/best-dallas-food-trucks-fort-worth

http://dallas.eater.com/maps/dallas-tacos-ft-worth-best-la-banqueta-good-2-go-velvet-taco

http://dallas.eater.com/2015/6/10/8756897/best-dallas-food-trucks-fort-worth

Yelp can be searched for food trucks
https://m.yelp.com/search?cflt=foodtrucks&find_loc=Fort+Worth%2C+TX

https://m.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Food+Trucks&find_loc=Fort+Worth%2C+TX

https://m.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Taco+Truck&find_loc=Fort+Worth%2C+TX

Also worth a try
Torchy’s Tacos (various locations)
Fuzzy’s Tacos (various locations)

Various websites and facebooks sites track than around DFW. FW Weekly and the Dallas Observer sometimes have info.

@compunaut
Oh yeah moar. New Food Truck Park coming on White Settlement Rd somewhere.

http://www.star-telegram.com/living/food-drink/article62221722.html

@melwin i like the warm fall

@CaptAmehrican You’d freeze on the water taxi otherwise…you working on that through the winter?

@melwin All my Indiana friends were complaining about the same thing. Are you in Indiana?

@luvche21 I live in southern Missouri. It’s still warm and windy today.

@thismyusername

@thismyusername
The Goat is un-pawsed.

/giphy un-pawsed

@f00l
/giphy unpaused paws

@Thumperchick But enough about you, where are baby pictures?

@OldCatLady there’s one over in the halloween costume thread.

@Thumperchick
She is radiating adorableness in that outfit.

@jbartus The first thing I did in this thread is search for 3 search terms: “Clinton”, “Trump”, and “Election”. If it was lacking all of these I was going to cheer.

@f00l Is that a blame or unblame? It Depends.

@OldCatLady

@ilovehollboll
@PlacidPenguin
@Hollboll

Blame:

I blame the Goat because you (@ilovehollboll) didn’t use the singular gender-neutral pronouns “they”, “them”, and “their”;
which are supposedly grammatically ok and legal now in singular-indication usage now, according to someone somewhere, who might be some big expert or not;
tho some people think it’s the End of Civilization.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/everyone-wants-their-cat-to-succeed-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year

Those people who believe this adjustment to common English pronoun use caused or marked the End of Civilization As We Know It are wrong tho.
Civilization ended when the first candidate declared entry into the US Presidential Race of 2016.

Not sure of the exact start date of this year’s presidential election, but am sure it somewhat predates the beginning of construction of Cheop’s Great Pyramid.

/image Great Pyramid

@PlacidPenguin

@hollboll

I would’ve done more, but there was only so much I could do at the time.

@PlacidPenguin Scapepenguin!

@narfcake

I’d have preferred a goatapus, but some people decided not to play fair by allowing Mediocre employees to vote, but not allow their whole category to be eligible for goatship.

@PlacidPenguin Yep. It’s a double standard!

Also, that was your cue to reply with spacepenguin.

@narfcake
/giphy "space penguin"

@PlacidPenguin
What app was the prob? If you are willing to tell us?

@PlacidPenguin what carrier are you on?

@ELUNO

Never ate goat before.

@PlacidPenguin @brhfl @therealjrn

@PlacidPenguin

@unixrab

You’re missing the good part of that gif where the goat eats the human.

@PlacidPenguin Hey, me neither.
Nor a hot dog.
Nor a bacon.

@Kidsandliz

You’re welcome

@f00l +1!

@thismyusername Damned cats

@narfcake
Awwwwwww, cute.

@thismyusername

I fail to see any penguins in that picture.

/giphy space penguin underneath a horse

/giphy penguin underneath a horse

/giphy penguin nibbling on horse’s ear

@PlacidPenguin

@CaptAmehrican If only you had a spider to snuggle you back to sleep!

@ELUNO aww are you offering one?

@CaptAmehrican @ELUNO

So now besides having to ship ladybugs to @galmaegi and @hollboll (I don’t remember which one said they don’t like ladybugs), I have to ship spiders to the two if you?

Fun.

@CaptAmehrican Sure!
@PlacidPenguin So you are shipping ladybugs to the one that doesn’t like them? Or the one that does like them?

@ELUNO

Both.

@PlacidPenguin You are one evil goat.
/giphy "Evil Goat"

@ELUNO

Please read

@PlacidPenguin that’s a really quick way to get your account deleted.

@hollboll

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@PlacidPenguin @hollboll Now we know who is the one that hates them

@ELUNO @hollboll

To be honest, getting my account deleted because of a shipment of 1500 or 4500 ladybugs would be totally worth it.

@PlacidPenguin How about 18,000?!?!
https://www.amazon.com/18-000-Live-Ladybugs-Guaranteed/dp/B00YFE9KN0/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1478643471&sr=8-10&keywords=ladybugs

@hollboll

@ELUNO

But… bug budget…

@PlacidPenguin Who doesn’t have a bug budget?!?!

@ELUNO

@CaptAmehrican I found this one!

And it is actually called Cuddlekins, so it is meant to be!

@ELUNO less cute less purple. Hasn’t meh and @Barney taught you anything purple makes it cuter

@CaptAmehrican Well, it definitely makes it more loveable, wasn’t sure about cuteness. Plus that is a Ty Beanie, how can you cuddle something that small?!

@carl669

I didn’t get a sticker either, and I voted in person.

@carl669 I voted by mail and got a sticker.

@PlacidPenguin you know who to blame.

@RiotDemon sorcery!!

@carl669

/giphy space penguin

@carl669
/giphy sorcery

@RiotDemon that gif is weirdly unnerving.

/giphy unnerving

@carl669 @RiotDemon

/giphy hallucinogenic giphy

@carl669 they include the sticker with our mail in ballots.

@Ignorant bastards at King County didn’t give me anything. except an opportunity to exercise my right to vote. but i really wanted the sticker dammit!

@carl669 @RiotDemon

Yesterday someone ended up getting me a sticker, and then they gave me their own sticker.

@thismyusername

Just my thoughts -
There are some outcomes - fair or ill, according to one’s perspectives - for which one blames neither a goat nor a penguin (even a @PlacidPenguin), nor even a @snapster.

The big events of this world, good and bad ones, have always gone along in their unrelenting paths. I hope we wil spare our scapegoat the burden of them.

@thismyusername (@f00l)

1.I’d hardly call myself a customer.

2. @snapster would have been a goatopus

@ELUNO

Meh…
I don’t like goats.

@PlacidPenguin You can’t fool me! A goat dressed as a penguin is still a goat!

@ELUNO

But a penguin dressed as a goat is still a penguin.

And a dog or lizard in people clothing looks ridiculous.

@PlacidPenguin But can a speaker dock be a knife?!?
Also, you are wrong!

Well… sometimes…

@ELUNO

3rd picture isn’t of a dog or a lizard.

@PlacidPenguin I know, I just wanted to include it

@Lotsofgoats

Please read

@Lotsofgoats

Meh…

I’m working on returning the favor in a sense. It’s just a matter of budget…

Although,@hollboll and @jbartus DID provide me with a great service. Now I won’t have to deal with certain people trying to goat me.

Honestly though, I’m curious how @thumperchick will fill out this month on her chart. After all, I’m a penguin, not a goat.

@PlacidPenguin I see a goat icon next to your name. You can’t penguin fool us!

@ELUNO

I’ll post a picture of myself later and you’ll see that I’m a penguin and not a goat.

Also, Please read

@ELUNO

@PlacidPenguin No naked photos on Meh. It says so in the rules.

@PlacidPenguin The purple spider I will be sending @CaptAmehrican is cuter than you! (Plus you totally look like a goat!)

@sammydog01

Oh really???

The rules

Let’s look closely…

Let’s look even closer…

Now, let’s consult Google…

I don’t believe I broke any rules. I’d tag @JonT to find out what he meant when he wrote them, but I’m not going to.

@PlacidPenguin I know where they bought you!
http://www.wildlifetreasures.com/smallanimals2order.htm

@ELUNO

The forum can’t handle my true looks. That picture is just a plush I had commissioned in my likeness.

@PlacidPenguin if the last few months are any indicator, I won’t be.
I’m kidding, I’ll get that thread caught up at some point. Probably. Whatever, it’s your fault, anyway.

@ELUNO
A goat w wings and a grappling tongue. Cool!

@narfcake

/image denied

@PlacidPenguin Then I’m blaming you that my blame was denied.

@narfcake

/image rejected

@PlacidPenguin Then I’m blaming you that my blame that was denied for blaming you was rejected.

I’m aslo blaming you ahead of schedule that I’ll run out of nested blaming tonight. And by running out, I really mean I give up because I really do need to sleep … but couldn’t.

@narfcake

I have related terms, but I’m probably going to save them for special situations.

@PlacidPenguin That’s totally fair.
/youtube nighty night toon

@narfcake

I Blame you for the pandora spam

@CaptAmehrican I just realized what your comment was about.
Double blame!

@CaptAmehrican

Shame I’ll never know who nuked the threads (unless someone pipes up). I have suspicions, but unless they’re confirmed…

@RiotDemon We still need more weirdmazing old facebook videos!

@ELUNO I think I curbed my sharing on Facebook. People there don’t seem to appreciate my videos, lol

@RiotDemon @ELUNO

What’s a “Facebook”?

/giphy serious space bending penguin

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy face book

@PlacidPenguin it’s a website or app that you use when you want to smash your face against a desk.

@RiotDemon

Isn’t that the internet as a whole though?

@PlacidPenguin sure, there are other places you can go on the internet, but this is almost guaranteed head smashing action.

@OldCatLady

The only problem with your paragraph is that you said I woke them up.

That would imply that they sleep. Only living things need sleep, and I’m not convinced that they’re all living things.

@PlacidPenguin Do goats that pretend to be penguins sleep?

@ELUNO

Never met one.

@PlacidPenguin @ELUNO
/image sleeping penguin goat

@OldCatLady Wasn’t me. I’ve been wrapped up in other adventures all week. Some wonderful staffer has been cleaning up around here.

@PlacidPenguin so are you blaming yourself?

@ELUNO

No. I’d blame the goat, but there isn’t one this month.

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy mirror

@ELUNO
@PlacidPenguin

If there’s no goat this month, we’ll just have to find a penguin to substitute.

Where, oh where…?

/giphy penguin fugitive

@f00l

/giphy penguins playing peekaboo

@PlacidPenguin Press B to whistle

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy we see you

@ELUNO
/giphy you know how to whistle don’t you?

@f00l
Well now, that’s weird!

@f00l

No you don’t.

@f00l WTF?! I blame the goat penguin for that .gif.
/giphy blame the penguin

@narfcake I would unblame him! Best gif ever!

@f00l I like how they manage to sneak in a pair of testicles in there.

@PlacidPenguin
/image “you know how to whistle, don’t you?”

@f00l from a French anti aids campaign.
NSFW.

@f00l @therealjrn

I have never whistled in my life. Don’t even know how to.

@RiotDemon
Interesting that the song is in English.

Have the French still not figured out rock and roll?

Also interesting that the cartoon activity did not exactly focus on having consent.

@f00l @RiotDemon

I have other issues with that ad. Including the fact that all of the scenes have doors leading to the next ones.

@PlacidPenguin
Cartoon logic. Which I adore.

Cartoon supergenius

@f00l it is bizarre. Probably wouldn’t fly over here.

@f00l

1. Those carrots sound plastic. Surely Bugs would have easily noticed…

2. Explosives aside, Wile E Coyote wouldn’t have ended up on top.

3. You expect me to believe that he didn’t get pieces of the shed stuck in him?

4. The location of the window doesn’t make sense based on how we see the mountain and the train in relation to where the tractor is.

5. Having issues with dimensions of the crates, table and Wile E in relation to size of shed.

6. Questions about the knot…

@f00l I don’t remember him talking before.

@PlacidPenguin
It’s all:
Cartoon Universe Logic and Physics Distortion Principle.

Mant physicists collaborated on the mathematical expression.

E =
(“Anything Goes, If It’s Funny”) * m(c^2)

/giphy "cartoon logic"

TVTropes.com on "Toon Physics"
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToonPhysics

@f00l

1. In most cases, a person’s body won’t let it cause harm to itself (that’s one reason why a person tends to wake up from a dream before they die/get seriously hurt) so easily.

2. Based on the position of the walnut in the mouth, if such a gif were possible, the walnut would come out of the mouth instead of staying where it is and cracking.

@PlacidPenguin Psychoanalyzing toons again, I see?

@PlacidPenguin

IRL, non-Toons
2a) There is a light partial paralysis in effect during dreams I think. This malfunctions - people who toss themselves right off the bed. And sleepwalkers who manage to go outside and start their cars.

2b) Quite possible for someone to hurt themselves, accidentally or deliberately. I think we have all stubbed our toes etc to mention very minor injuries.

1a) That gif is most certainly possible. It exists and I embedded it. And you saw it.
Therefore:

Cartesian extension:
Immersa gif igitur est
The gif is embedded, therefore it exists.

1b) you meant, I suppose, if the action depicted in the gif exists IRL. (I was being cute.)
Aha! These incidents do not occur IRL!
They occur in:

Alternate Tooniverse
A subtrope of Alternate Universe where the alternate (or parallel) universe is inhabited by cartoon characters and exists alongside a world closer to reality. There is often travel between this world and one much like our own. Exists alongside a universe like ours inhabited by flesh and blood human beings. Usually toons and humans are treated as separate species, if they interact. Humans may be fearful of Toons because of their different abilities. Note, however, that to whom, where, and when Toon Physics apply depends on the work, and frequently on the Rule of Funny.

Or in
Toon Town
Toon Town is a loony sort of place where Cartoon Physics and the Rule of Funny reign supreme. Expect the Roger Rabbit Effect almost every time.

And it works because
Rule Of Funny

"If it’s good for laughs, if it works, just do it."
— Noah “Spoony” Antwiler, The Spoony Experiment
The limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief for a given element is directly proportional to its funniness.
Any violation of continuity, logic, physics, or common sense is permissible if the result gets enough of a laugh.
This is the comedy equivalent of the Rule of Cool, and is accordingly weighted more in comedy shows. Especially easy to invoke in humor-based American animation and webcomics, where people expect the lack of realism in the art to translate to other areas.
Rule of Funny is not a superpower. One of the characteristics of the rule of funny is that it can give some abilities to a character to the sole purpose of a gag, which means the character just CAN’T do that when it’s not funny. For instance, it happened multiple times to Wile E. Coyote to walk on thin air because he had not noticed that he was at the edge of a cliff, and he falls when he notices it. It is Rule of Funny: Coyote can’t walk on thin air as a previewed part of a scheme.

The Experimental Evidence

A mural of Wile E. Coyote smashed into an ACME Instant Tunnel on the wall of the Rotch Library at MIT

Please note that CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Reference allows for notations in terms if this universe:

“Beyond April Fools’, however, some of the distributions on the CPAN are jokes in themselves. The Acme:: hierarchy is reserved for joke modules; for instance, Acme::Don’t adds a don’t function that doesn’t run the code given to it (to complement the do built-in, which does). Even outside the Acme:: hierarchy, some modules are still written largely for amusement; one example is Lingua::Romana::Perligata, which can be used to write Perl programs in a subset of Latin.”

@narfcake

Observational after starting the Wakko’s segment.

1. Sofa changes to chair.
2. Chairs moved between Dot and Wakko.
3. Where did the yellow from the butterfly come from?
4. Portrait of the doc changed sizes.
5. Window shape changed.

@PlacidPenguin This was a very significant episode back in the heyday of alt.tv.animaniacs on usenet …

@narfcake

In the second half of that video, how are the desktops powered? The cables don’t lead to outlets…

@PlacidPenguin Ever heard of floorboxes? Or cartoons in general?

@ELUNO

/youtube Steamboat Willie

@PlacidPenguin It’s you!

@narfcake
That episode was magnificent.

I want to know if the giant anvil was manufactured by Acme.

The anvil certainly appears to perform up to spec and to marketing copy implications in that episode.

Have the problems experienced by our friend WEC with anvils and other tools been caused by choice of manufacturer or defective units or Operator Error or Tragic Flaw?

/giphy "wile e coyote"

@OldCatLady

My week has been ridiculously annoying. Good thing it’s over.

@CaptAmehrican ouch.

@CaptAmehrican Well, I wish chlamydia on them both. What is he using for brains?!

@OldCatLady
I think that guy’s brain re-located elsewhere.

@CaptAmehrican
Wow. Does that seriously suck; or is it painfully funny; or both?

And you don’t have to let him live that down if you don’t want to.

@CaptAmehrican Whaaaaaaat?!

@PlacidPenguin

Two fires.

The one near me burned 30 acres before being contained.

The other one has been across 130 acres.

@PlacidPenguin Don’t you hate it when your neighborhood makes it onto the national news, no matter what the reason? Stay safe. Think downpour, inundation, days of cold, soaking rain…

@PlacidPenguin
/image bendable penguin scapegoat

@PlacidPenguin You are a goat in denial. You need some psychology sessions.

@PlacidPenguin Don’t worry, I’ll drive you!

@ELUNO

I know you meant that in jest, but it’s not as funny as you think it is…

@ELUNO nice bike.

@RiotDemon Thanks! As you can see, I can take a babe with me!

@PlacidPenguin goat pretending to be a penguin

@Kidsandliz Not pretending. Actually thinks they ARE a penguin
/image The Penguin

@compunaut

I guess I need to post a new pic of myself later…

@ELUNO
A baby tarantula?

/giphy tarantella

@PlacidPenguin
Serious/funny/serious/funny…

/giphy illusion

@f00l I can take hundreds of baby tarantulas with me. If they are grown up, only a dozen tops.

@PlacidPenguin If you pay for my airfare, I’ll do it.

Otherwise:
https://www.amazon.com/Bayco-LBC-600C-Deluxe-Light-Changer/dp/B000256QZQ

@narfcake

Or, I could always offer @Barney Megabus tickets from St Louis to Chicago to NY with return tickets for less than $200… Of course, no clue how she’d get to St Louis or from NYC to my location… Although I could probably find someone closer and save more money…

Unless you’re in the mood of traveling by train from CA to NYC…

@PlacidPenguin
@narfcake and I might have to engage in an airfare fight over this most excellent of all tasks.

(Edit: airfare or carfare. Willing to drive.)

In your list of PITA aspects of this task, you forgot
Thinking about needing to do it
Refusing to think about needing to do it
Feeling less than competent because it’s not done
Getting grumpy over it.
Actively avoiding awareness of the task
Etc

How many @f00ls does it take to change a lightbulb?

(It will cost you to find out the answer)

PS forget all this and put in a buncha floor lamps and table lamps etc. then no problems reaching and chairs and all that. Just have some light bulbs on hand and know where they are.

/giphy "change a lightbulb"

(The guilt-tripping passive-aggressive parent’s answer:)
“Never mind. Don’t want to be any trouble. I’ll just sit in the dark.”

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy "change, please"

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy "change for its own sake"

@PlacidPenguin

/giphy "turn turn turn"

@katylava @shawn @Harrison

Which one of you wants to take the blame for the fact that there’s no way for me to use @f00l s name in a sentence where grammatically there should be an s directly after the name, yet because it would interpret the s as part of the name, the forum thinks I’m tagging f00ls.

It’s not really a problem with any other name, since I can just change the sentence around. This issue only is relevant in regards to dealing with @f00l

@PlacidPenguin Barney is not going to change your light bulb.

@Barney

Not with that attitude.

@PlacidPenguin

when I think about @f00l
I tag myself. I honestly do

@f00l

I still need this issue dealt with. It’s been bugging me for a long while.

@PlacidPenguin Is this what you’re looking for?

@f00ls

@narfcake

Saw where you were headed, but in the time it took to write it out, you fixed your typo.

Well sure, that COULD work, however:

1. The few times a week where I tag @f00l, it would be cumbersome to paste that text every time.
2. I’d rather inconvenience someone else than inconvenience myself. Especially if being inconvenienced is part of their job description. I’m considerate that way.

@PlacidPenguin
Re travel expenses to somewhere near NYC by car:

You need an estimate or you just wanna pay by receipts?

Takes me approx 36-38 hours one way to Manhattan on about 3 hours sleep. Might need more sleep these days. Might not.

Takes longer if a blizzard gets involved. Or on a travel holiday.

I figure add 1-2 hours more for travel from Manhattan to wherever you are. More if I hit the NYC area during rush hour or daytime.

You might need to cover some food costs.

My cars are v old. I can arrive a little bit faster if you will cover the cost of a rental.

You need to have lightbulbs on hand, or else tell me what to buy. If I have to shop, that’s a bit more time.

So?

/giphy "grand tour"

@PlacidPenguin
@narfcake

How did you two do that with the “silent s”?

@f00l
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/image it’s magic!

@f00l

We used a hyperlink to your profile page with your name being the obvious text, and added the s to after the close bracket for 1

@narfcake

In that image:

1. Why is the wrapping slightly raised at the top? If there’s an object embedded in you, NEVER move it.

2. Why is there no blood on the lower part of the nail?

3. A person’s finger muscles wouldn’t keep the finger like that in such a scenario…

@PlacidPenguin
Uhhhhh

1. s e x. As a possible counterexample?

@f00l

Fine. A foreign object which could cause bodily harm.

Wait… That’s no good either…

Fine… A metal or wooden object which got embedded in skin through some sort of means not involving a person directly (allowing however for a secondary action), which has resulted in bodily harm while becoming embedded in you, and can cause a physical injury.

@PlacidPenguin
Yeah I know. Was just being cute.

Also gotta allow for breathing and feeding and draining tubes, and insulin pumps and birth control devices and artificial knees/hearts/whatever.

And auto-med dispensers.

And piercings.

And the fun end of titanium sporks

And future embedded tech including always-blinking skin-watches.

/giphy spork

@PlacidPenguin
So do I drive the fuck up there to change your slacker lightbulb or what?

And while I am there do I have to wear a blindfold the entire time so that you can remain super mysterious or something?

And are you gonna arrange for a surrogate or remotely controlled computer-altered speech device to greet me so that I won’t hear your voice and find out more about you that way?

Do I have to park at JFK or Laguardia and have you order me a taxi or Uber and travel accompanied by a surrogate who makes sure that I wear a blindfold both ways the entire trip so that that I don’t know where the fuck you live?

What other restrictions are necessary and what other challenges might I face so that this fucking lightbulb can get fucking changed the way it’s spozed to get fucking changed?

Hey @carl669 fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Now I’m pumped!

Am willing to do the extra 1000 miles, so to speak.

/giphy "reporting for duty"

@f00l
@PlacidPenguin
I have no idea what that giphy in the previous post is about, but it won’t slow me from changing that lightbulb. I swear.

Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night nor mysterious giphys nor problematic politics nor nonsense posts will stay this lightbulb-changer from changing the appointed lightbulb.

@f00l

@PlacidPenguin feels that @f00l missed the chance to say mehsterious.

Of course:

1. Horrible puns are the job of @narfcake
2. Being mehsterious is the job of @mehsterious

@PlacidPenguin

I only made the iffor four changeling lightb00bs bindfolded, knot forepunning.

After a wee (<— potential pun) little drive.

I might bee four puns. I might make good pawns (inconsievable!) / but cannot make bad prawns unless @narfcake has previously Mehjected them.

How mooch would could a would pun pun if a would pun could pun would?

/giphy "skipping the giphy"

@PlacidPenguin I thought the awful assortment of alliterations and associated aspects were my job …

@narfcake

If you do the alliterations, then who’s going to make the horrible puns?
It can’t be @f00l due to the fact that I don’t want @f00l making horrible puns…

@Yoda_Daenerys - What’s your stance on puns?

@PlacidPenguin
Is that your stance on light bulbs? You know they brake if you pot wait on them.

Ok you can stand in the dork.

@f00l

Depends on which dork. Besides, I prefer the company of nerds, not dorks.

@f00l i like the floor lamp strategy, it may have just inspired a new use for all of the string lights i bought here and have not used - just lay them around on the floor.

you might be thinking this is a tripping hazard, but compared to all the on and off the chair in the above instructions i may be better off.

@PlacidPenguin i try knot too stands on puns, butt eff eye am inn the write mewd, me thanks thay oar punny

@Yoda_Daenerys @f00l @narfcake

I need someone who doesn’t like puns to take the job of writing puns, this way I won’t see any puns.

@PlacidPenguin As you nose, eye will not be a good candidate.

@PlacidPenguin
Everyone doesn’t lick riding puns. The hateful righter just micks puns even wurst.

@PlacidPenguin me thinks your logic fails you

if a > b and,
b <> c then,
b <> c

FALLS or TREW?

@Yoda_Daenerys
/8ball choose FALLS or TREW
Ask again later

It is now later as in about 5 seconds later
@Yoda_Daenerys
/8ball choose FALLS or TREW
Ask again later

It is now later as in about 5 more seconds later
@Yoda_Daenerys
/8ball choose FALLS or TREW
It is certain

@Kidsandliz
@PlacidPenguin

/8ball falls trew?
It is certain

/giphy "falls through"

@Kidsandliz of course mr. /8ball, it is falls or trew, certainly

/image “8 ball”

/giphy ouija board

@f00l @narfcake

Another lightbulb needs to be changed.
On the bright side, it’s right above my bed, so I don’t need a chair.

@PlacidPenguin So you’re covering two all-expenses paid trips to NY? That’s so very kind of you!

@narfcake @f00l

Who said anything about round-trip?

@PlacidPenguin Designers Edge E3001 Light Bulb Changer Kit with 11-Foot Telescopic Pole and 5 Adapters http://a.co/54GdOmT

@PlacidPenguin grumbles … fucking goat penguin.

/giphy fucking penguin

@PlacidPenguin
How many @f00l’s does it take to change a lightbulb anyway?

/giphy rhetorical

@f00l

That depends on if they’re dispensable.

Also:

@PlacidPenguin
@f00l(s) and @f00l(s)'s serrvices are always both dispensable and disposable.

@PlacidPenguin
You know blindfolded origami pretzel lite-bulb changers get extra down comforter compensation in harsh conditions.

Can’t comfortably wear flip-flops? Kinda harsh.
/giphy harsh

@f00l

I don’t own flip-flops.

@PlacidPenguin How very ornamental. It looks sorta like a casserole topped with cheese. Also, why weren’t you wearing some of the awesome boots meh had recently? Also, what were you doing up at that hour? Also, it was 81 F here yesterday, and 31 F last night. Just sayin’.

@PlacidPenguin You know walking in the snow in bare feet isn’t all that bad if you have a radiator in the house. As kids we used to pour water on the front walk from the door to the sidewalk, slide down it in bare feet a couple of times, run inside, stand on the radiator until our feet were thawed, repeat. Then we’d finally have a nice ice hill which we’d play on with boots on, which when dad would come home he’d put salt on : ( Mom claimed she never knew we did this.

@PlacidPenguin

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/escape-from-the-cold

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy happy feet

@PlacidPenguin yes, i agree, horrific, those stairs are much too steep

@narfcake
Stop post-whoring and start star-whoring.

/giphy "you know what to do"

@narfcake

@narfcake
For you

http://www.postwhoring.org/

/8ball Is the denied stamp denied this month?
It is certain

The /8ball has spoken again, @PlacidPenguin.

@f00l It’s quieter there than in the woot forums.

@narfcake

I know you did what @Kidsandliz has done.

@PlacidPenguin I blame you for knowing.

It was also so I could roll a reply to @f00l so I don’t have to increase my post count as much.

/8ball Irony?
My reply is no

@PlacidPenguin Oh wait that cat is out of the bag? Sheesh how could I have been so careless to let everyone know that trick? LOL

@Kidsandliz

Don’t tell @narfcake, but I’ve been using that trick myself.

@PlacidPenguin I HEARD THAT.

/giphy cat out of the bag

@narfcake

Actually, you SAW it.

@PlacidPenguin I did not cut my phone in half.

/giphy saw

@narfcake

The jagged edges of the leg of the pair of pants don’t correspond to each other.

Also, the thin white layer doesn’t make sense. The top part (still attached to the body) extends at the top for a bit, but the cut part shows a relatively smooth cut.

@PlacidPenguin
@narfcake

/8ball Is this random?
Yes

@PlacidPenguin @kidsandliz @narfcake @f00l hmms, trickzies you say, the force be with my dragons and they will reign forever!

wtf r y’all talking around?

@Yoda_Daenerys It’s in this thread
https://meh.com/forum/topics/new-mehdown-slash-command-8ball
Look for my long post

@Yoda_Daenerys @Kidsandliz

Bop!

@narfcake no, that gif is that would be the cat in the bag…

@Kidsandliz Let’s try this again … because cats.
/giphy cat in the bag

/giphy cat out of the bag

/giphy blame a penguin?

@narfcake blame a penguin is OK the rest? umm
/8ball Is narfcake’s mind twisted?
Signs point to yes

@narfcake and I didn’t edit that either… : )

Damn the 8 ball is even against me!
/8ball are you plotting against me?
Yes

@Kidsandliz
/8ball Does grading suck?
Most likely

Finally done 3 hours+ later.

@Kidsandliz

Now comes the disappointment of being done.

@PlacidPenguin You mean like this?

@Kidsandliz

Actually it depends. What subject was the test for?

@PlacidPenguin
/8ball does it matter what subject?
My sources say no

@Kidsandliz

It sort of does. Some subjects would require bigger celebrations

@PlacidPenguin Sounds like a job for meh buyers.

@thismyusername

@PlacidPenguin

@Thumperchick

Mind ftfying the link for me?

(Normally I’m good with manually creating a hyperlink, but this thread loads slower than the profile page of @f00l or @narfcake)

… but this thread loads slower than the profile page …

And whose fault is that, @PlacidPenguin?

@narfcake

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When I can access the profile page for @f00l or yourself faster than a thread, all logic goes out the flamingo’s ear.

@PlacidPenguin That’s highly illogical!
/image flamingo’s ear

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/gnome-garden

@PlacidPenguin

And profile loaders such as
@narfcake
@narfupsidedowncake
And others

I here provide another example that no good deed goes unpunished: by unblaming you.

I will check on the possibility that my profile page might actually load. That would be entertaining.

@PlacidPenguin, Thx for link to other thread.

Reason for UNBLAME:

Audible.com has another free book, it appears they intend the book to be free without a cutoff date, but not sure.

But the book! Kinda wow.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

(Under time pressure at the moment).
Details to claim the book are in the audiobook and podcast thread, here:

https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-many-hours-a-day-do-you-spend-listening-to-podcasts-music-radio-or-audiobooks#5835dc5618b2c6580bb3733b

The pages linked in that thread explain why this particular audiobook is free - the reasons are personal to Don Katz, audible’s founder.

And this may just be a very relevant book, to the moment, so to speak, for some of us.

@PlacidPenguin Will you accept unblames, though?

@narfcake

If they are related to Thanksgiving - no.

Otherwise - yes.

@PlacidPenguin Catshirts. Multiple ones. The catshirtswoot ones were on AA. One of them is purple, even.

Sure, they weren’t all my size, but I spent less than $10 for 6.

So you’re a good goat penguin.

@narfcake

If there would have been a black (or at least a blue) option, I’d have gotten one without hesitation. However, none of the color options are exactly “flattering”.

TBH though, I’m more excited for the listing on Monday

@PlacidPenguin It’s not even the colors, but at $8 (+ VMP subscription), it’s a “let me think about this vs. a catshirt from catshirtswoot”, which would be $10 (+ shipping) for the wearable AA option.

@PlacidPenguin I ended up not buying a shirt here. That’s an unblame, right?

@narfcake

Not sure. I need to consult my Meh Forum Survival Guide, specifically the section entitled:
So, You’re a Scapenguin.

I didn’t either buy a T-shirt, but that’s because I already bought 3 items in 2016.

@PlacidPenguin Well, figure it out before I decide to turn that into a blame.

@narfcake

I’m looking. I’m looking.

I’ll ask @FruityFraug…

@PlacidPenguin

Sheesh. Give me a break. I was laughing so hard when you got scapenguin’ed that I didn’t think about every possible event when I added this chapter to the guide.

Just take the unblame and move on.

@narfcake

Well that settles it. I’ll take the unblame.

@dashcloud

A different rep can’t decide if my address doesn’t exist or if there package was lost.

@PlacidPenguin
You asked to speak to a US based rep I hope? They will defer you instantly if you ask.

And then ask for a supervisor or for a member of the “leadership dept”.
(That means supervisor.)

I’ll do the overseas reps for normal stuff. But not for anything timely or complex that calls for actual problem solving off-script.

@f00l

I have no patience speaking on the phone (to people in general).

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Update: Got refunded last night. Today I get a package from Amazon. Surprise surprise: It’s the package which I was told yesterday had a bad address on it. My figurations: The postal worker was just too lazy to deliver it yesterday.

@PlacidPenguin so your package was free?

@narfcake

Something recently happened with my 9 year old Woot account. I can no longer access it.

Yay.

@PlacidPenguin Blame the goat penguin for that.

@narfcake

I’d rather just blame Woot.