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Martini Glambassador's avatar

The lusty month begins. You get your gif explainer, in case you missed it the first time: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/meerkat-mob-mugs-for-the-camera

And a sparkling-fresh meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/07a80d4e-fd61-4757-985e-782445655846?utm_source=share

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Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Tra la, it's May!

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

For a long time, I've toyed with the idea of writing a sci-fi/horror film script that features larger than human-sized merecats that can ONLY walk upright on two legs.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

LOL, would read!

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

Mere Morecats!

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

Heh, born this month...

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Happy birthmonth!

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I tot I taw a meerykat

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Parakeetist's avatar

Meerkitties :)

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Nancy Naive's avatar

Lusty month? I know a dirty little ditty, “Hooray, hooray, the first of May, outdoor (expletive) is here to stay,” but I just assume it’s only a change in theater, not lust.

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Menotsure's avatar

I wrote a meerkat poem

And thought that that was that

But now you've brought

A fresh onslaught

Of fuzzy litle kats.

I feel I'm being tested

From far anyway in France

By a clever plotting

Gif giving smarty pants.

But if she plans to torment me

By meerkatting anew

I'll write a rhyming recipe

For making meerkat stew.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

😂

The meerkats have fled the premises.

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Menotsure's avatar

So has Elvis.

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WokeGrandma's avatar

Elvis never fled. He "left."

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Richard S's avatar

Some say he still haunts the Las Vegas Hilton.....

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Bruce's avatar

I am reliably informed that Elvis is everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcTY9i-fx8

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Oh those meerkats and their inquisitive, intelligent little faces! They look purposeful even when just playing ...

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JCfromNC's avatar

"First of May", Jonathan Coulton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZaJDg6E0A

Very, very much NSFW -- you have been warned.

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Stroke1's avatar

This gif looks familiar.

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tehbaddr's avatar

"The lusty month", is that what all the Kool Kats are calling it now?

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

On the off chance you didn’t grow up a theatre nerd singing show tunes like I did: https://youtu.be/cg4YrOlAkds?si=lDsado4g41nnIUav

Oh, I mean yeah, I was *totally* a Kool Kat. 😜

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dave in texas's avatar

We did Camelot my junior year in high school. There was much clucking and tsk-ing over the lusty month, and especially Guinevere's*gasp* adultery. The next year, we did Carousel. No clucking and tsk-ing over Billy Bigelow's domestic violence, though.

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tehbaddr's avatar

ZOMGDZ She's singing about The Orgy!

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

If you want it more explicitly stated, check out JC’s link above 😉

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Meerkat madness!

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

Meer-ly irresistible

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sarah's avatar

Please - get an easier way to send you money! I've been fighting for more than half an hour with this system. After many "adventures," it now will not let me give you the state in which I now live. I am tired of entering the information manually again and again. Is there some law that everyone must use Venmo? I do not use Venmo. Nor do I want to use it. Help!

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Kirsty Gnome's avatar

Because of me, 4,500 airliners didn't fall from the sky.

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Littorally Speaking's avatar

ICYMI: Jared Moskowitz trolling Shitler’s lickspittles *again* LOL ...

https://youtu.be/6nkRrkz2TQI?si=dCWpgRYnPiAt7oww

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Erika's avatar

Always glad to have a TMBG song included!

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littlerice vice's avatar

PROGRESS! I have been scattering corn kernels out on the front yard hoping to attract my SAND HILL CRANES. So far no cranes. But there are a pair of GREEN HEAD MALLARDS browsing on the corn now! Perhaps they will nest nearby! That will be great! It's all GOOD!

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lordpnut's avatar

"Watch out for those goddamn monkeys. They bite "

-APOCALYPSE NOW

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Merrie Mac, Libelsländerin's avatar

My mother would 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 if I put an IMPEACH hat on her head. Even though some days that is a tempting thought, I still love her. “Trump-induced family schism” should end up in the next revision of the DSM, or maybe the one after that.

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House0fTheBlueLights's avatar

I have a red Wonkette RESIGN hat and I will tell you that if you live in a red or purple area it's funny, but if you live in a blue area people who don't see the front will yell at and even assault you. (I've had it snatched off my head and thrown on the ground.) I literally cannot wear it. So use caution.

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MorganX's avatar

😹

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House0fTheBlueLights's avatar

It was scary! I never wore it again!

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MorganX's avatar

I'm so sorry.

😹 😹 😹

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Sister Artemis's avatar

Wow! I got an IMPEACH! hat from Trix back in the Olden Tymes of the first Orange Yam Administration, and turns out it's become useful again!

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ziggywiggy's avatar

I have the old "Hell. No." and it still works today.

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Psyker01's avatar

Happy May day, enjoy this look at the medieval may day https://youtu.be/MjjEjf3TI0U?si=vyg15lSEkLAzWCuI

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rawrtigerlily's avatar

Oh no. I clicked the Pinal Today link. I hope I didn’t accidentally encourage them to think this is passable or make it in any way profitable.

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Charles in San Diego's avatar

Poe's law in effect. I thought it was satire.

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easelox is on timeout's avatar

is it not satire?

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Charles in San Diego's avatar

The website does not identify itself as a satirical website it its "About" section. In fact, quite the opposite.

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Mark Linimon's avatar

Who can tell anymore?

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paxpax's avatar

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

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Anzu's avatar

If you really really really really want good gut bacteria, eat kimchi. I've never been a fan of it, but as a health food, it's definitely the best of the fermented bunch.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Rotting squirrels on the edge of the highway were good enough for my grandpappy and rotting squirrels on the edge of the highway are good enough for me.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Calm down, RFK, Jr.

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RCS's avatar

I can't wear a red hat because I never want to be confused with one of those assholes but I did just pick up a tee shirt that says 'Morons Are Governing America.'

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Anzu's avatar

The best of the resistance hats aren't red anyway. From 8 years ago we had a blue, "Make America Think Again" hat. I've seen yellow hat with "Don't Tread On Me" for the Libertarian crowd who weren't closet Republicans and who are as horrified as what the current government has become as the rest of us.

I want one that is red, white, and blue striped that says, "Make Reading American Again" because too many kids and adults alike are allergic to reading these days.

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BECKY's avatar

I remember back in 2016, I bought hubby a ceramic coaster that said "Make America Hate Again", I thought it would be a quaint reminder of the time we, as a country, got rid of Donald trump. Little did I know he would still be around 10 years later and on a path to destroy the country. Think about how naive we were.

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Mark Linimon's avatar

This is, I think, the most accurate slogan.

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Heidi L's avatar

Pam Bondi hit the nail on the head - the problem is DEFINITELY kids buying Tylenol and getting Fentanyl instead. Also Pam Bondi - Math is hard, so just use whatever numbers are pretty and add a bunch of zeroes.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Kids should stop buying Tylenol from corner dealer and that sketchy guy who is willing to buy you booze if you let him keep the change and also invite him to the party. Never actually invite him to the party.

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Mark Linimon's avatar

Well, invite him to the party, but give him the address of that kid who's been bullying you.

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marydn's avatar

That article on what RFKjr thinks about health makes perfect sense...if you are a former heroin addict with a worm in your brain. I wonder how soon before they start exposing disabled and sickly babies on hilltops rather than help them. DonOLD felt that way about his nephew's sick newborn child and didn't contribute any money to medical expenses. I believe he said they should just let the baby die. Huh, who could have guessed it?

The Narrator: Everyone. Everyone could have guessed it.

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Jeff, still got my guitar's avatar

If he was a junkie, where and from whom did he score the dope? 14 years is a long time to be scoring and using junk and nobody knew? He's such a liar that I don't believe his "junkie for 14 years" story.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Then why didn't he allow himself to die with the brain worm and refuse treatment for any illness he ever had? He wants to exterminate the poor.

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Alpaca22's avatar

and why are journalists not asking this question of him?

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Because they'd get fired since they are owned by rwnjs.

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Alpaca22's avatar

better to be known as being fired for asking uncomfortable questions

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Only to those with morals and boundaries.

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rawrtigerlily's avatar

Yeah. It’s convenient how it’s never wealthy people eschewing health care for themselves and their family, but they’re determined it’s what’s best for everyone else because then they don’t have to pay tax to support such things.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

They literally decide who lives and dies in this country and that sickens me beyond words.

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