Their hairs like those of other Arctic mammals, are translucent, not pigmented. Some silly scientists proposed in the late 1970s that polar bear hair at least was fiber optic (in the UV) but that doesn't stand up in the laboratory: they absorb strongly at short wavelenght (hence a golden/ivory sheen to their pelts).
> Club Baby Seal is the name of a made up music venue in a series of pilot episodes for a show created by and featuring Joe Escalante from the band the vandals. Each episode had a cameo from bands like NoFX and the bouncing souls. also featuring Kyle Gass(tenacious d) as the zany fire marshal trying to shut the club down.
Trust me when I tell you that baby is VERY well insulated. Between his abundant blubber and key layers of that silky white fur that bebe is toasty warm and quite cozy, particularly when he snuggles up.
Mother Nature has looked after her children very well.
Oooh! Did they use crystals that. naturally split like that? That's clever.
Now that I think about it, Roman "four-sided" where sheep "knucklebones" and were really six sided, but long, so the only landed on four. DMs were not pleased.
The die were actually cut and polished to be 20-sided. It's thought that they were used as oracles, like Magic 8 Balls. But they could have been used for gaming or gambling.
I read a book on gambling once that thought that the two were originally very close, with gambling being a way to check in on if you were favored by the gods.
So republicans believe that democrats are deliberately bringing in Latino immigrants to create a permanent majority for themselves even though: it takes several years for immigrants to become eligible for citizenship and therefore, to vote. Also, it’s obvious that Latinos aren’t voting as a monolithic block and can be courted by republicans if only they’d stop being so fucking racist toward them.
I didn't know a lot about all the dirty laundry stuff that led to her getting the gig in the first place, and she definitely is more than capable of doing her own thing without playing second fiddle.
I, also an old, talked a fellow old out of disliking Tay Tay for spurious reasons and dared them to actually learn something about her. In following-up after their searching on Beyonce's internet, a new Swiftie is born. (They said it was her $20 million or so committed donation toward animal causes.)
I'd never read "The Messenger" and didn't know what it was. Here's the first sentence of the article linked by Our Es-Steamed Editrix, which looks to be quite good:
"The Messenger, the ostentatiously both-sides-y online publication launched just eight months ago with an impressive wad of startup capital and ambitions of rescuing media, kerploded very suddenly and rather spectacularly Wednesday afternoon."
I appreciated Kevin Kruse's dissection of Elno's adjacent-from-within Nazism, but I don't think we've made *nearly* enough of Elno's having used Auschwitz as a goddamned *prop* for self-aggrandizement. The world seemed to let that go with barely a whimper. Yet there he was saying he understood so much more about the Holocaust by holding an event there in the same way Jeff Bezos blabbed about being "changed" by visiting space when he just got arced up to the top of the sky.
No wonder a fascist dictator with nearly eight dozen felony charges and a trail of bodies is on deck to take over the country.
Repeating myself, in a sane democracy, the fascists are afraid of the law ... in this world, the good people are afraid of the traitors taking full control next week.
News: Fireworks at Senate GOP comms directors meeting this a.m. over border bill. After Sen Lankford’s team gave presentation on the bill & opened up for Q’s, Sen Lee’s staff was “yelling” at Lankford staff per multiple ppl in room. Lee aide eventually left room saying “betrayal”
Someone downthread mentioned the Danish movie Another Round, which features Mads Mikkelsen as a teacher who, with his friends, explores the advantages of keeping a little buzz on at work.
Anyway, funny how in American movies Mads is always a terrifying villain and in Danish movies he's just some guy.
How long to Harp seal pups stay white? I’ve got that and yer hed gif source info here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/baby-harp-seal-of-approval
How is it that no one seems to have commented on Zappa's masterpiece, "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", in which the fur trapper gets his comeuppance?
D'awwww, so cute and floofy!
In ''Horse Feathers'' the Marx Brothers deal with a seal, and one of them is...
named Harpo! Coincidence? I think not!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asHg6w-vEPg
Their hairs like those of other Arctic mammals, are translucent, not pigmented. Some silly scientists proposed in the late 1970s that polar bear hair at least was fiber optic (in the UV) but that doesn't stand up in the laboratory: they absorb strongly at short wavelenght (hence a golden/ivory sheen to their pelts).
Okay, but imagine fiber-optic bears.
Gamboling with milk chocolate unicorns.
IIRC, those translucent hairs are also hollow.
Correct.
If only there was a concise method for expressing approval, I would surely use it for this.
I express my approval about your methods of expressing approval as well!
That seals it.
Approved! Oh, what a glorious feeling...
So many early morning positive affirmations! 😁
And never forget:
I'm good enough
I'm smart enough
And goshdarnit, people like me!
A garage band I was in had the lead guitar player suggesting ‘The Baby Seal Club’ as our band name. Uh, NO!
Also, it's taken.
A fictitious night spot "Club Baby Seal" was in something...
Google says
> Club Baby Seal is the name of a made up music venue in a series of pilot episodes for a show created by and featuring Joe Escalante from the band the vandals. Each episode had a cameo from bands like NoFX and the bouncing souls. also featuring Kyle Gass(tenacious d) as the zany fire marshal trying to shut the club down.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4220354/
Some group named the Polar Bears would have you for lunch.
I am that seal pup this morn. 🥱
Reminds me of an old joke.
So a baby seal walks into a club...
...looks like you blew a seal...
I swear I was only eating ice cream!
Just fix the damn thing and leave my personal life out of it.
Club sandwiches, not seals!
That's my story, your honor, and I'm sticking to it.
Bright eyed bundles of silky soft fluff.
That they were once almost hunted out of existence STILL pisses me off.
That looks so cold. Brrr.
Trust me when I tell you that baby is VERY well insulated. Between his abundant blubber and key layers of that silky white fur that bebe is toasty warm and quite cozy, particularly when he snuggles up.
Mother Nature has looked after her children very well.
Abundant blubber - hey, how did Trump get in this story?
IncompeDon is not now and has NEVER been cute enough to even come close to qualifying for any mention in this story.
Except to say that he should probably be clubbed in a manner similar to a baby seal 🦭. With votes, of course. I'm not a monster.
Lazy harp seal has no job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pv8D-ydR1s
ETA also, too (g'egg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL9iMPx9CpQ
Welfare baleine! (Ok, not a whale, but the best I could do on short notice).
Don't you mean whale-fare?
<Insert drum sting here.>
Lol...I know what I've done. I'll see myself out...
(Pinneped)
Sure, but “welfare pinneped” doesn’t quite have the same referential ring to it.
I think that's a Neil Young song, innit?
Welfare pinnepeds
Make better in-a-beds
Weeeee alllllll knoooooow
Long enough to get clubbed over the head and skinned for it, once upon a time.
Good morning Subshine!
Eh, typo, whatever, it stays because I like it.
“I have a gub.”
"A coinage, Watson!" Holmes ejaculated.
Heh, I do too.
They're so cute. Little fluffy zeppelins.
Gumdrops!
If they curl up, Hostess Snowballs.
Oh yum!
Hahahaha, great description!
Did the Romans play Dungeons and Dragons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Ycrm2FQdI
Not sure about the Romans, but the ancient Greeks made 20-sided dice from quartz crystals.
Oooh! Did they use crystals that. naturally split like that? That's clever.
Now that I think about it, Roman "four-sided" where sheep "knucklebones" and were really six sided, but long, so the only landed on four. DMs were not pleased.
The die were actually cut and polished to be 20-sided. It's thought that they were used as oracles, like Magic 8 Balls. But they could have been used for gaming or gambling.
I read a book on gambling once that thought that the two were originally very close, with gambling being a way to check in on if you were favored by the gods.
So republicans believe that democrats are deliberately bringing in Latino immigrants to create a permanent majority for themselves even though: it takes several years for immigrants to become eligible for citizenship and therefore, to vote. Also, it’s obvious that Latinos aren’t voting as a monolithic block and can be courted by republicans if only they’d stop being so fucking racist toward them.
Doesn’t sound like a good plan.
“ Actually two, before the whole Wonkette thing. HEYYY Paul. HIIIIIII Shy, I married you.) ”
So that’s fuck and marry. Who was your choice for “kill?”
She's still shoppping
SER and Our Liz flaunting their Substack Independence together...Splitters! 😄
But seriously, it's a good listen.
It looks like Liz picked the right time to bail on Opening Arguments.
I didn't know a lot about all the dirty laundry stuff that led to her getting the gig in the first place, and she definitely is more than capable of doing her own thing without playing second fiddle.
Absolutely.
I am exactly like your hub, about Taylor Swift. The Swifties are so positive and it looks like fun. I want that in my life.
> The Messenger spent $8 million just on rent.
And for all that, this is the first I'm hearing about them.
The picture from the convoyyyyyy (apologies to Kris Kristoferson) of Palin and the banner that says "FEB 3TH" is still making me laugh
I, also an old, talked a fellow old out of disliking Tay Tay for spurious reasons and dared them to actually learn something about her. In following-up after their searching on Beyonce's internet, a new Swiftie is born. (They said it was her $20 million or so committed donation toward animal causes.)
I'd never read "The Messenger" and didn't know what it was. Here's the first sentence of the article linked by Our Es-Steamed Editrix, which looks to be quite good:
"The Messenger, the ostentatiously both-sides-y online publication launched just eight months ago with an impressive wad of startup capital and ambitions of rescuing media, kerploded very suddenly and rather spectacularly Wednesday afternoon."
"... kerploded"... I shall endeavor to use that in a sentence today.
It offered CONVENTIONAL WISDOM and BOTH SIDES and HORSE RACE?
If they truly want to save the failed institution of US "journalism," then they should consider their product.
I was laughing about the "convoy" that drove through a little town 20 miles due south of me.
Until I realized that if Cheetoh gets back in, these will be the people running the "citizen's committees" or whatever they will call them.
OK, 23 mi SSW, now that I check. But whatever.
I appreciated Kevin Kruse's dissection of Elno's adjacent-from-within Nazism, but I don't think we've made *nearly* enough of Elno's having used Auschwitz as a goddamned *prop* for self-aggrandizement. The world seemed to let that go with barely a whimper. Yet there he was saying he understood so much more about the Holocaust by holding an event there in the same way Jeff Bezos blabbed about being "changed" by visiting space when he just got arced up to the top of the sky.
No wonder a fascist dictator with nearly eight dozen felony charges and a trail of bodies is on deck to take over the country.
Sigh...a Monday morning with inches of rain and WITHOUT a gazillion posts by SER.
Repeating myself, in a sane democracy, the fascists are afraid of the law ... in this world, the good people are afraid of the traitors taking full control next week.
https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1754535122949362002 ---
News: Fireworks at Senate GOP comms directors meeting this a.m. over border bill. After Sen Lankford’s team gave presentation on the bill & opened up for Q’s, Sen Lee’s staff was “yelling” at Lankford staff per multiple ppl in room. Lee aide eventually left room saying “betrayal”
Someone downthread mentioned the Danish movie Another Round, which features Mads Mikkelsen as a teacher who, with his friends, explores the advantages of keeping a little buzz on at work.
Anyway, funny how in American movies Mads is always a terrifying villain and in Danish movies he's just some guy.
https://satwcomic.com/superhero-movies-got-nothing-on-danish-cinema
I saw him in Valhalla Rising and he was an uber violent dude in that flick.
I think there was a Paul & Paula shout out in this post.