Today is National Zucchini Bread Day, National DNA Day, National Telephone Day, National Teach Children to Save Day, National Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day, and National Hug A Plumber Day. Do what you will with this information.
@chienfou@werehatrack I think the idea of how insane that list is meets the definition. I’m sure “AI” could generate an image if you wanted but I probably don’t want to see it
meme \MEEM\ noun. 1 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. 2 : an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media.
@pakopako I loved Demolition Man. When I was a teen it was probably my favourite movie. That and The Mummy. (Old one with Brendan Frasier, and Rachel Weiss)
NATIONAL GUMMI BEAR DAY
NATIONAL CELEBRATE TRAILS DAY
NATIONAL FIRST LADIES DAY
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY
NATIONAL DEVIL DOG DAY
NATIONAL POOL OPENING DAY
NATIONAL SENSE OF SMELL DAY
NATIONAL REBUILDING DAY
NATIONAL PRIME RIB DAY¹
NATIONAL TELL A STORY DAY
NATIONAL BABE RUTH DAY
NATIONAL KISS OF HOPE DAY
@pakopako I Guess you are not familiar with the situation here. I am 100% positive at least once a day someone in a meeting hears me say ouch, tell someone to stop. Or occasionally a yell because someone just jumped me/sank a claw in
@Kidsandliz@pakopako@unksol A litter of kittens was here when my current S.O. moved in, and when they graduated from the bathroom to the main space, they often came over to get a close look at what he was doing while working remotely. Their habit of popping up on camera caused them to become “the interns”. They were quite popular.
@Kidsandliz@pakopako@werehatrack thankfully I’ve worked from home my entire professional career and we’ve never used the cameras. It wasn’t really necessary for the tech leads/SEs/Ops team.
But l lead a daily team meeting and there’s always something. They turn on accessibility features at night so my keyboard doesn’t work. They somehow mute my headset so I can’t hear. They jump on me. Today I leaned a little too far left and Guinan, who had finally stopped sitting in the gap between my mouse and keyboard/wandering and headbutting my hand so I misclicked/mistyped, grabbed my shirt from their bed and my response mid sentence, cause I’m trying to do something while sharing my screen is just “would you let go?” And continue on to laughs. They’re used to it at this point
GLOBAL PAY IT FORWARD DAY
NATIONAL SUPERHERO DAY
NATIONAL BRAVEHEARTS DAY
NATIONAL PET PARENTS DAY
NATIONAL BLUEBERRY PIE DAY
NATIONAL GREAT POETRY READING DAY
Pet parents and guardians, faithful and kind,
Caped bravehearts stand, their valor true,
With selflessness, courage, love, and pie
AI mostly wrote this poem for you.
@swiftiefangirl Random gripe - I’m so sick of click bait that tells me “Brace Yourself!” And it’s about wearing some kind of compression socks or adding salt to coffee or something that requires no bracing whatsoever.
@chienfou Exactly. I once heard that the whole US mania was a marketing campaign dreamed up by the people at Bennigan’s, and I will note that near all of those had already vanished well before the plague. That’s what generally happens when you have a management mentality which believes that promotion of the bar is more important than having a good food menu supported by a skilled kitchen supplied with good ingredients and applied properly to good recipes. We’ve certainly seen the results down here more than a few times.
@werehatrack
Probably just as well. In this day and age and the current social climate they would have gotten severely dinged for the cultural (mis)appropriation anyway. TBT I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.
@chienfou I suspect that the people who will take any excuse to Par-Tay probably overlap with the ones who don’t give a f*&^%$# f!@= about cultural appropriation.
@chienfou@werehatrack I sometimes ask myself what these 1000% party people are trying to drown out, or if they’re chasing a long gone high. But then I see some of them and care less about whatever past is involved and just hope they immediately fall off the pier.
@chienfou@werehatrack I genuinely miss Bennigan’s and treasure my I said Fried Cheese at Bennigan’s button. I mean, it wasn’t good, but it was Bennigan’s, you know? Building’s a dispensary now.
Today is National Zucchini Bread Day, National DNA Day, National Telephone Day, National Teach Children to Save Day, National Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day, and National Hug A Plumber Day. Do what you will with this information.
@werehatrack
Where are the memes?
@werehatrack Try not to commit any bloody murders, got it.
@chienfou @werehatrack I think the idea of how insane that list is meets the definition. I’m sure “AI” could generate an image if you wanted but I probably don’t want to see it
meme \MEEM\ noun. 1 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. 2 : an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media.
William Shatner was in Miss Congeniality? Were there any Klingons?
@OnionSoup Yup, he was:
https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/william-shatner-celebrates-miss-congenialitys-perfect-date/
@OnionSoup No Klingons mentioned.
FYI Star Trek day is Sept 8 every year if anyone was curious.
To my knowledge Sandra Bullock has not appeared in anything Star Trek.
@OnionSoup Demolition Man and Gravity are the sci-fi stories I recall her in.
@pakopako I loved Demolition Man. When I was a teen it was probably my favourite movie. That and The Mummy. (Old one with Brendan Frasier, and Rachel Weiss)
@OnionSoup @pakopako Demolition Man and Mummy were good as are Sandra Bullock and Rachel Weiss.
The Proposal was just a good rom-com. Plus Betty White.
Carol Burnett’s birthday, April 26th!
@Kyeh They dressed her so beautifully in Annie. I get emotional about it.
@mossygreen She certainly had the figure to pull it off, too.
Saturday, April 27, 2024 is…
NATIONAL GUMMI BEAR DAY
NATIONAL CELEBRATE TRAILS DAY
NATIONAL FIRST LADIES DAY
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY
NATIONAL DEVIL DOG DAY
NATIONAL POOL OPENING DAY
NATIONAL SENSE OF SMELL DAY
NATIONAL REBUILDING DAY
NATIONAL PRIME RIB DAY¹
NATIONAL TELL A STORY DAY
NATIONAL BABE RUTH DAY
NATIONAL KISS OF HOPE DAY
¹ There is no National Subprime Rib Day so far.
@werehatrack Memes?
@werehatrack
/giphy thats not how this works
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 The idea is to send the more-clever-than-me out on a Quest via some Helpful Prompts.
It does not seem to be working.
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Aw, if you can find the list, you can find the meme! I know you can!
/image caturday
@unksol Religious reasons. Must have a cat on you at all times to claim Caturday.
@pakopako I Guess you are not familiar with the situation here. I am 100% positive at least once a day someone in a meeting hears me say ouch, tell someone to stop. Or occasionally a yell because someone just jumped me/sank a claw in
@pakopako @unksol Yeah I’d have a cat tail in zoom on occasion due to one or more on my lap either settling down or getting up or walking across me.
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @unksol A litter of kittens was here when my current S.O. moved in, and when they graduated from the bathroom to the main space, they often came over to get a close look at what he was doing while working remotely. Their habit of popping up on camera caused them to become “the interns”. They were quite popular.
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @werehatrack thankfully I’ve worked from home my entire professional career and we’ve never used the cameras. It wasn’t really necessary for the tech leads/SEs/Ops team.
But l lead a daily team meeting and there’s always something. They turn on accessibility features at night so my keyboard doesn’t work. They somehow mute my headset so I can’t hear. They jump on me. Today I leaned a little too far left and Guinan, who had finally stopped sitting in the gap between my mouse and keyboard/wandering and headbutting my hand so I misclicked/mistyped, grabbed my shirt from their bed and my response mid sentence, cause I’m trying to do something while sharing my screen is just “would you let go?” And continue on to laughs. They’re used to it at this point
/showme a NATIONAL GUMMI BEAR DAY MEME
@mediocrebot
@heartny @mediocrebot It even spelled everything correctly!
(And they’re so cute!)
@Kyeh The correct spelling really surprised me. Maybe yelling in all caps helps.
April 28, 2024.
GLOBAL PAY IT FORWARD DAY
NATIONAL SUPERHERO DAY
NATIONAL BRAVEHEARTS DAY
NATIONAL PET PARENTS DAY
NATIONAL BLUEBERRY PIE DAY
NATIONAL GREAT POETRY READING DAY
@werehatrack All RIGHT! That’s more like it …
@Kyeh I made that one. Ok, yes, the photo is shamelessly stolen, but I added the text.
@werehatrack Even better.
@werehatrack
Pet parents and guardians, faithful and kind,
Caped bravehearts stand, their valor true,
With selflessness, courage, love, and pie
AI mostly wrote this poem for you.
/showme a NATIONAL BLUEBERRY PIE DAY meme
@mediocrebot Spelling is so close. Lol. Looks delicious though.
@heartny Interesting, the spelling’s not right, but it got creative with the phrasing there - “IS BIGGER YOUR DREAMS”
/showme a national pet parent day meme
@mediocrebot Perfect spelling again! It must have stolen it outright from some existing picture …
Happy ED BALLS day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Balls#Ed_Balls_Day
@dave
April 29, 2024 is a bit uninspiring.
NATIONAL SHRIMP SCAMPI DAY
NATIONAL ZIPPER DAY
NATIONAL PEACE ROSE DAY
I got nothin’.
@werehatrack It’s about time that zippers got some well-deserved recognition!
/showme a happy national zipper day meme
/showme happy national raisin day meme
/showme A HAPPY NATIONAL ADOPT A SHELTER PET DAY MEME
@mediocrebot Close with the spelling, but no cigars. Lol. Image is cute though, except for that weird white cat on the left.
@heartny we must have very different ideas of “close” on spelling lol
@heartny @unksol Is the dog on the right surgically attached to the man’s stomach?
@heartny @macromeh @unksol it’s perfectly apt
/showme happy may day meme with goats
@heartny I like that!
/showme happy goats dancing around the Maypole
@mediocrebot Wow, that’s a lot of goats.
(make more sense if you are Catholic…)
@chienfou I will admit to being habituated to cats at this point, but I wouldn’t say I’m a cat-holic. I’m sure I can stop anytime.
I lied. There are kittens on the patio that I must deal with. Because kittens.
@werehatrack
took me a minute…
@chienfou this is accurate!!!
And just because we are talking Star Wars…
(I love this bit)
Here are 3 to get us started for today:
@chienfou Muy bueno!
All day long people! Let’s Party!
@swiftiefangirl Random gripe - I’m so sick of click bait that tells me “Brace Yourself!” And it’s about wearing some kind of compression socks or adding salt to coffee or something that requires no bracing whatsoever.
@chienfou Exactly. I once heard that the whole US mania was a marketing campaign dreamed up by the people at Bennigan’s, and I will note that near all of those had already vanished well before the plague. That’s what generally happens when you have a management mentality which believes that promotion of the bar is more important than having a good food menu supported by a skilled kitchen supplied with good ingredients and applied properly to good recipes. We’ve certainly seen the results down here more than a few times.
@werehatrack
Probably just as well. In this day and age and the current social climate they would have gotten severely dinged for the cultural (mis)appropriation anyway. TBT I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.
@chienfou I suspect that the people who will take any excuse to Par-Tay probably overlap with the ones who don’t give a f*&^%$# f!@= about cultural appropriation.
@chienfou @werehatrack I sometimes ask myself what these 1000% party people are trying to drown out, or if they’re chasing a long gone high. But then I see some of them and care less about whatever past is involved and just hope they immediately fall off the pier.
@chienfou @werehatrack I genuinely miss Bennigan’s and treasure my I said Fried Cheese at Bennigan’s button. I mean, it wasn’t good, but it was Bennigan’s, you know? Building’s a dispensary now.
Bet you expected a Star Wars meme, right?
May 7th