Thursday Meme Drop
24 responses to “Thursday Meme Drop”
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Using vinegar and soap will kill the leaves but not the roots, it will come back in a week .
Gotta love the bullshit people post in memes.
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Posters – I would buy some if I had the money at the time. There was one when I was cashless, a close-up of an emperor penguin with the wording underneath saying “I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.” Later, when I did have the money I went back but they were all sold out and there were no more after that.
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Frank–Sorry you missed that one. Yes, posters covered the walls of most kids back in the day.
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RU and B–You’re both right. Meme removed.
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I have a friend who is a Mortician / Funeral Home Director who will appreciate the Uber story.
Whenever folks say to him: “Michael it’s good to see you!” he responds “It’s better to be seen than viewed.”
He is a master of dark humor to say the least.
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“Roundup” WAS a brand name for “glyphosate”. Monsanto got tired of being sued for selling a proven non-carcinogen, so they quit putting glyphosate into Roundup brand weed killer. The current mix is OK, but it’s not glyphosate. Glyphosate is long off patent, so it’s readily available- but not from a company worth suing. Read the ingredients list.
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About glyphosate – I know someone who has strong allergic reactions to it. As it was(may still be) found in a lot of foods it made life interesting.
Gowron talking about honor – interesting…LikeLike
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boneman–That’s awesome!
doc–The meme (since removed) probably referred to the old formula.
Frank–It does seem to be ubiquitous in the US food chain. You said you were a Gowron meme fan so expect at least one in every drop for the next several weeks.
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I used to have a Gowron folder myself. It was not part of my backup, so when my PC crashed and burned it disappeared into digital neverneverland. As they keep appearing I should be able to create a new one.
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To Infinity and beyond nine…
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Adding salt to the vinegar and soap kills the whole plant. It’ll kill grass too, but the surrounding grass fills in the dead spot after a couple years.
Here’s one DIY recipe
Weed Killer
1 gallon white vinegar (You could use another type of vinegar, but white is the cheapest and easiest to buy in large quantities)
2 cups Epsom salt (I like the garden variety found in local garden centers, but I have a friend who used iodized salt… I’m not sure about the long term effects of this since science shows regular salt will keep anything from growing for quite a while afterwards.)
1/4 cup Dish soap
I’ve personally used this on dandelions. I works like gangbusters, BUT use sparingly.
I scaled the recipe to fill a quart bottle, but can’t find the altered recipe.
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I own and drive a hearse as my personal vehicle.
I’ve always wondered why it has a sliding window behind the seat.
If I’m driving down the highway and someone taps me on the shoulder and asks for a cigarette, they’ll be the only one in the car.
Come to think of it, why are there ashtrays in the back?
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Frank–There’s a facebook group just for Gowron memes. I’ll try to give your new folder a jumpstart though.
Cederq–Special Shout out!
Nemo–Thanks! I think the original meme didn’t have salt. But yeah, it’s inclusion would kill pretty much anything.
Petercat–A window I can understand to a point. A sliding one? Nope. Aren’t the ashtrays for cremations? (yeah, I’m going to hell for that comment, for sure.)
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Crocheted shorts? Someone’s been to Grandma’s house.
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Maybe if they weren’t copping in the field so much, they wouldn’t have 400 children.
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I drove one of those bad boy panel sided station wagons until the early 2000’s!
My kids were quite happy when I finally got rid of it. The little smart asses said something like: “now we can be like normal people”.
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Nemo: Try it with just the epsom salts, it will work as well as with the vinegar and soap.
Ever heard the phrase “salt the earth” or “salt their fields”? That is exactly what it means. Make it so nothing grows due tot he salt.
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WDS–Not even sure my grandma would have done that.
Unferth–LOL!
Johnny–They were safer in that than in newer cars.
B–Exactly. The vinegar and soap are just agents to get it to stick in one place.
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You don’t pull the window unit out, you just tape a big trash bag over it when cold weather arrives. Do we rednecks have to tell y’all everything?
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“You are old” had me laughin’ hard. 🤣 …and I must be, because I recall some U.S. Navy destroyers I served on having ashtrays installed on the weapon control consoles I manned, like the USS Goldsborough DDG20 🚢 ps- Great collection…Thanks! 🇺🇸
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@MWC I think the vinegar is to help dissolve the Epsom salts called for in recipe. I used pickling salt in the scaled recipe.
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My family got rid of our last station wagon in 1995, when my Mom got a brand new 95 Taurus sedan in dark green. That was a pretty sharp car, actually. We were past the point of school carpools (I finished highschool in in 92, my sister in 94, leaving just two younger brothers in grade school) so she no longer needed the room of a station wagon as a kid hauler. Dad bought a new Ford Aerostar minivan in 95 as well, extended version with 3 row seating, following a similar 89 he bought new and traded in for the 95 model.
Prior to that we always had at least one, if not two, station wagons at any given time. They were always used Chevy’s, starting with a 73 (the heavily tapered/rounded rear tailgate body style) dark red with woodgrain side panels, then a 74 (same body style) in an awful looking metallic turquoise color, then a tan 74 (again, same body style) which was nicer than the turquoise one, but died a premature death. Finally offloaded the turquoise one in 1983 for the only one we ever bought new, in two tone dark/light metallic brown. It was a fairly nice car to start, but aged terribly and was falling apart in about 6 years. Somehow we kept it going until 95 when the Taurus replaced it.
I don’t miss station wagons at all, not one bit, thank you. Yeah, they were practical, but that’s about all I can say for them. In hindsight, most were just ugly. But then a lot of cars were ugly, and still are.
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TN Budd-You’re exactly right!!
Nemo–Makes sense to get them into solution.
BRD–There have been a lot of ugly cars out there. As awesome as some in the 70s were, there were an equal number of really bad designs.
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