how about a meme generator thread...

[scrap iron]

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[day_trippr]

 

[balrog]

Classic.

 

[Kent88]

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I hate* you

*Not really

 

[balrog]

Not near as bad as @passedpawn and that damned wandering bug; he prolly took out 6 computer screens that day.

 

[balrog]

 

[Broken Crow]

Alright, all you pumpkin beer haters.

According to history, we owe a great debt of gratitude for our American tradition of beer drinking.

It seems as though there was an untold reason for the Pilgrims setting ashore on Plymouth Rock instead of the Jamestown Colony much further down the Eastern seaboard of the U.S.

They had run out of beer!

Just like the latter day Carnival Cruises, the liquor supply needed replenishment. Being that Autumn was close at hand, the friendly native population introduced the Pilgrims to a plentiful harvest of starchy, glucose rich orange vegetation suitable for fermentation. Forget about maize. It wasn’t ripe yet, and would have to wait for the Germans to arrive in the Upper Midwest a couple hundred years hence to discover a way to stretch the grain bill with local adjuncts.

By the time their brew day and primary/secondary fermentation was complete, the Pilgrim’s “ship had sailed” both literally as well as figuratively, so they decided to throw a party and invite the locals. Since Oktoberfest hadn’t been invented yet (and ‘Novemberfest’ seemed awkward and pretentious), they threw a few birds on the barbie and called it Thanksgiving.

Thus was born the autumnal tradition of tailgating and (pumpkin) beer drinking, although it wasn’t until a few centuries later that automobiles came along, with tail lights, which required the invention of cars with tails.

Aren’t you thankful that Cliff Claven didn’t have to explain it to you? Cheers!

NO MORE PUMPKIN ABOMINATIONS PLEASE!!!!! IT'S ONLY AUGUST!!! ...and I can only bear so much!
Though I risk deletion for getting politically contentious: Keep in mind that these pilgrims established a list of atrocities against humanity of which it seems you can include pumpkin beer!
Please: At least hold off on the pumpkin-everything until October when I'm accustomed to psychologically steeling myself to brace for the grotesque assualts on my favourite holiday.

 

[Kent88]

NO MORE PUMPKIN ABOMINATIONS PLEASE!!!!! IT'S ONLY AUGUST!!!

I'd drink them in May if they were available or I could make one that I was happy with. I just never could dial it in.

...and I can only bear so much!

That sounds like a you problem.

 

[Broken Crow]

I'd drink them in May if they were available or I could make one that I was happy with. I just never could dial it in.



That sounds like a you problem.

You're right... it's a me problem... I've seen too many pumpkin things for my comfort today, but I'll end on a happy note:

 

[Kent88]

Halloween creep is a real thing. Saw an 18' tall inflatable Frankenstein monster in the hardware store today.

 

[pshankstar]

 

[Kent88]

I'm sorry, my mind just went here:

What are porcupines, hedgehogs, sea urchins, and cacti?

 

[Dland]

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I reckon then they are all sacred animals, heck, I don't even eat swordfish anymore. Admittedly though, that has more to do with high PCB and mercury levels found in that species of fish. Mako and a large tuna as well, by the way. I prefer my fish dinners from lower down on the food chain.

Our hunter gatherer ancestors had killed and ate some of the rhinoceros species to extinction by about 12-15 thousand years ago, not totally their fault though, the extinction was helped by Younger Dryas, a climate change event. that killed off or displaced some people too, notably the Clovis, but I digress. Relatives of the few remaining rhino critters in Africa inhabited most of the temperate world during last inter-glacial period. There were woolly rhinos in the Midwest of what is now USA, and central Europe kind of recently,, at least on a geological time scale. Please pardon the dissertation, but I find this isht fascinating.

As to the unicorns, some say they were result of people seeing ibex and other strait horned animal species from a distance. Others say the last one was killed off by early Catholics, who were jealous of their magic, as depicted in that famous tapestry. One documented fact is that hunters and traders from what is now Scandinavia duped many a midevil era European noble to buy narwhal tusks represented as unicorn horns for prices sometimes greater than gold.

 

[ba-brewer]

I'm sorry, my mind just went here:

What are porcupines, hedgehogs, sea urchins, and cacti?

multicorns

narwhal came to mind when I seen the meme

 

[GrogNerd]

I hate* you

*Not really

I wouldn't blame you.
really

 

[Jonakr]

I'm sorry, my mind just went here:

What are porcupines, hedgehogs, sea urchins, and cacti?

I don't know, but they aren't any type of unicorn, that's for sure.

 

[Snuffy]

I'm sorry, my mind just went here:

What are porcupines, hedgehogs, sea urchins, and cacti?

Not to mention Narwhals...

 

[balrog]

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I would go fast attack submersible unicorn for the marlin and ballistic missile submersible unicorn for the narwhal.

 

[Kent88]

 

[Broothru]

I don't know, but they aren't any type of unicorn, that's for sure.

You’ll see green alligators and long necked geese, some humpty-back camels and some chimpanzees…

 

[GrogNerd]

it's a little early for phone calls, so I've already texted my brother & sister

 

[Kharnynb]

https://media1.tenor.com/m/TeSli4y595kAAAAd/chore-wheel-beer.gif

 

[balrog]

 

[Kent88]

Is this the opposite gender equivalent of the Mendoza Diagonal?

 

[Broothru]

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Amalfi Coast? The heck with Georgio. I want to see a picture of his girlfriend!

 

[Kent88]

@marc1

 

[khannon]

@marc1

Burninate..

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[Kent88]

GrogNerd starting off the day with a good meme

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[Kharnynb]

 

[nobadays]

 

[Broothru]

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Yeah, sure, if your workout only consists of three or four reps with a 5# barbell. But….

If you drink 2 six packs of 12 ouncers, taking 6 “lifts” of each bottle, that’s 12x 2x 6x 12 oz.

Since I’ve already had a few this evening, doing the calculation is a little fuzzy. Specifically, the decreasing value of the 12 ounces with each lift versus the fixed value of the 5# barbell is the source of discomfiture confusing me, 53 years after swearing off calculus.

But at least that must count for something!

 

[balrog]

Yeah, sure, if your workout only consists of three or four reps with a 5# barbell. But….

If you drink 2 six packs of 12 ouncers, taking 6 “lifts” of each bottle, that’s 12x 2x 6x 12 oz.

Since I’ve already had a few this evening, doing the calculation is a little fuzzy. Specifically, the decreasing value of the 12 ounces with each lift versus the fixed value of the 5# barbell is the source of discomfiture confusing me, 53 years after swearing off calculus.

But at least that must count for something!

It’s the classic physics rocket engine calculation as you burn fuel.

And it’s been 46 years since I did that homework problem.

 

[balrog]

 

[Jonakr]

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It feels like I don't know you anymore. Sorry for letting you down.

 

[balrog]

Pff, even I didn't read it to the end, having stopped after "rocker"; otherwise I would have *SQUIRREL!*
What was the topic again?

 

[Broothru]

It’s the classic physics rocket engine calculation as you burn fuel.

And it’s been 46 years since I did that homework problem.

So, you’re saying that brewing beer actually is kinda’ like rocket science…

My former aerospace engineering professors would be proud that I finally found my niche.