“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Cook, the director of retail business development at Sanrio, the creators of the iconic cartoon, told Today. “She’s actually a little girl.”
In fact, she’s a tiny girl — who “weighs three apples” and stands five apples tall — raised in the London suburbs with her twin sister Mimmy, their parents and even her own pet cat.
Archive for the ‘Bagatelle’ Category
Revisionist history watch.
Friday, July 19th, 2024Breaking the law, breaking the law…
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024I think this is a rare example of a headline that does not comply with Betteridge’s law of headlines.
Obviously, the answer to that question is, “Yes, and you should ignore the joyless fun suckers who want to suck all the fun out of life.”
It must be fun to tell people at parties, “I’m a sloth inspector.”
Wordplay.
Thursday, July 4th, 2024As Mike the Musicologist likes to point out, this is a local crime story that doesn’t deserve or need national coverage.
I agree with him, but I do want to note: it is wonderful to see “canoodling” in a headline. “Canoodle” is a delightful word that deserves to be used more often.
Happy birthday to you…
Wednesday, May 29th, 2024Happy 150th birthday, G. K. Chesterton!
“The Innocence of Father Brown” on Project Gutenberg.
“You attacked reason,” said Father Brown. “It’s bad theology.”
NERFed.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024First, we had the NERF machine gun.
How do you follow that?
Would you believe…NERF night vision?
It looks like a camera with (probably) a cheap magnifying lens that’s also IR sensitive. It almost certainly isn’t great, but for $35 it might be fun to play with.
And it seems like there’s already a hacker community around it, mostly on Reddit. (No link, because Reddit.)
Hattip to awa over at Gun Free Zone, who points out there’s a meme around this too.
Bagatelle (#110)
Friday, April 26th, 2024Shot:
Noem also detailed how she killed a “nasty and mean” male goat because it had not been castrated.
She described the animal as smelling “disgusting, musky, rancid” and claimed it “loved to chase” Noem’s children and knock them down.
The goat was also “dragged to a gravel pit,” but jumped when she pulled the trigger, and subsequently survived the wound. Noem went back to her truck to retrieve another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down,” she wrote.
Chaser:
A hoarder “squatter” with a large aggressive goat refused to leave a house in San Antonio for months — as the belligerent billy goat attacked the homeowner and police, sources said.
The four-legged baaaad boy stormed and butted house flipper Daniel Cabrera, who bought a five-bedroom abode for $175,000 from a woman who refused to move out in June, he told realtor.com.
Spicy bar snack:
Ammo cuffs from Andy’s Leather. So you don’t have to go back to the truck to load another round. Or you could use a rifle with a magazine.
Gonzaga!
Saturday, March 30th, 2024Oh, well. There’s always next year. And maybe next year, Lawrence and I will be able to pull it together and make a bet on the games.
Norts spews.
Friday, March 29th, 2024The baseball season started yesterday.
As we all know, Bob, this means the Astros won’t be able to sell beer at Minute Maid Park the rest of the season…
…because they lost the opener.
(“222 best dad jokes to tickle everyone’s funny bone“. See also.)
In case anyone was wondering, Gonzaga plays Purdue tonight. Purdue is a pretty heavy favorite, but we’ve seen a lot of favorites get knocked out this year. I wouldn’t count Gonzaga out just yet.
Short random gun crankery.
Friday, March 29th, 2024Happy 1911 Day.
At least, according to Brownell’s.
I’d celebrate by going to the range and putting a few rounds through mine, but today’s going to be a busy day. Also, I’m not sure if it is religiously appropriate to go to the range on Good Friday. Though Luke 22:36 seems like an appropriate response to anybody who would complain…
My latest batch of million dollar ideas.
Monday, March 18th, 20241. I figure this one will hold up until the estate of Frank Herbert sues me. But then again, with a sufficiently good lawyer, I’m sure we can argue a parody exemption on this one:
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Fremen.
So far, I’ve got three. I’m thinking of recruiting a collaborator to help me flesh out the book a little.
- Walk without rhythm, to avoid attracting the worm.
- Never turn your back to the opposition.
- Don’t get high on your own (spice) supply.
(Yes, I did see “Dune Part 2” yesterday. Why do you ask?)
2. This one may be more of a $100,000 idea than a million dollar one, as there may be geographic limitations:
Vicious Australian Animal as a Service. (VAAaaS).
For s small fee to cover animal wrangling, packaging, shipping, and our profit, we’ll send a vicious Australian animal to your “favorite” person in the world. Message optional. We’ll maintain anonymity, and you can pay in cryptocurrency.
Let’s face it. Wouldn’t you love to send that “special person” who’s been acting like a rude (word that rhymes with “glass bowl”) a box jellyfish? Or a Sydney funnel-web spider? It sends a pretty clear message, and seems to me to be much more effective than a box of fecal matter.
There may be some issues with shipping marine life, like the box jellyfish or blue-ringed octopus, but spiders should be relatively easy. It would just be a small matter of finding animal wranglers and appropriate packaging. And lawyers.
We’d probably operate on a sliding scale, based on the size of the animal. Spiders and snakes should be small and easy to ship, while koalas and drop bears would be more expensive, as they would require special handling and packaging.
(I do have some morals. For that reason, VAAaaS will not ship Tasmanian devils, as they are endangered.)
Quote of the day.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024I know this should be a local story, and for some reason it has become an international one.
But I can’t tell a lie: I get a kick out of this.
Bonus points:
The Oompa Loompa from the knock off Wonka land experience looks like she’s running a literal meth lab and is seriously questioning the life choices up until this point. If you scripted this, I would say it was too on the nose pic.twitter.com/WwkGO8Hjck
— Disappointed Optimist (@disappoptimism) February 27, 2024
Entertainment trivia.
Thursday, January 4th, 2024My beloved and indulgent family gave me a copy of Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! for Christmas. I think part of the motivation for this (other than it being on my wish list) is that everyone in my family wants to borrow it when I’m done. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Fun fact I’ve learned from the book, which I did not know previously. Remember “Gunderson”?
Whatever happened to that guy? Would you believe he went on to bigger things?
Crazy horse people update.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024Crazy horse woman took a plea.
As part of the plea, she’s taken a stipulated sentence of three years and eight months, but it isn’t clear to me if she has a chance at parole or some other form of early release.
Christmas Eve gun crankery.
Sunday, December 24th, 2023A short one for you. My book buddy in the Association sent me scans from a 1928 Smith and Wesson catalog, along with a scan of a letter from the great Walter Roper. This was a very nice Christmas present, and one I can’t thank him enough for.
You will find each of our arms fully described in the catalog we are enclosing but we want you to ask any questions you may wish about either guns or ammunition, as it will be a real pleasure to help you select a revolver.
The past was another country.
I don’t want to reproduce the whole thing, as I’m not sure about the copyright status and I don’t want to make my book buddy mad. However, I thought people might find this one page interesting, and I think it qualifies as fair use. Keep in mind, this is 1928 data.
Endorsed.
Saturday, December 23rd, 2023I would not have expected to find a swell Christmas story on the Revolver Guy blog.