Tag / John McPherson

by zbicyclist

Houston

Todd also has a problem with this: “I just don’t get it.”

That phrase is most closely associated with Apollo 13, but there’s no brides on that mission.

The other phrase closely associated with that movie is ““Failure is not an option”. This is a line written for the 1995 film Apollo 13, spoken by actor Ed Harris as Gene Kranz, though the real NASA Flight Director never actually said it during the mission.

Gene Kranz did motivational speaking after he retired from NASA, and adopted that phrase in order to create a bond with his audience. I heard him speak at one of our corporate sales conferences. Good speaker, but in the business we were in, failure certainly was an option. In fact, we were in the process of having our stock decline from $44/share to $1.30 a share and constantly shedding employees.

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 4, 2026

Even as a Michigan alum, I have to admit Script Ohio by the Ohio State Marching Band is one of the best marching band formations ever.

Go ahead … make my marinara.

We’re mostly coffee drinkers, but I do make the occasional pot of tea, particularly to make iced tea. This is new to me. To confess my sins, I usually just rinse out our (glazed) teapots, but that’s more laziness and a desire not to risk that slight aftertaste of dish soap that didn’t get completely rinsed out. So maybe I’m doing the right thing by accident, (which is better than doing the wrong thing intentionally).

Any advice from tea drinkers out there?

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – September 13, 2026

Ron sends this in:

Dirk the Daring wonders about this one: “This makes no sense.  If he is paid by the hour he’d take his time and dawdle. Maybe I’m missing something,  it seems back-assward to me.”

Kedamono sends this in as an “Ewww”: “I mean, YouTube videos on potty training? Yikes! Also, isn’t he a bit too young to have his own phone?”

by zbicyclist

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – August 9, 2026

Mitch4 sends this in, along with today’s important medical information: “I noted this because it was a misunderstanding I used to have. The point of the “turn your head” part of the hernia check is really just “so that you don’t cough on me!”. But I long thought it had something to do with some connection between the muscles and tendons in the neck and upper torso with the scrotum and waistline (potential hernia areas), so that the cough-test would work.


“And the cartoonist is here relying on that misunderstanding, or even worse, not only thinking that the turned head is an inherent part of the test, but here seeming to rely on the turned head *alone*, without the visceral grip.”

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – May 24, 2026

I volunteer as a tax preparer, and Illinois requires information off the driver’s license or state ID in order to process the return. One of these information items is the weight shown. That’s used to match with the information the state has, to control identity theft.

But it’s pretty obvious from comparing what’s on the license with what I see in front of me that the state makes little attempt to confirm the information given.

Arlo award winner.

by zbicyclist

Seedless

Dale sends this in: “I get drilling a hole and putting in a straw in to drink presumably the water and, thanks to Google, the reference to Adolph Menzel a Realist artist. But looking at his work, I didn’t see anything like fake versions of real stuff.

What I don’t get is what’s the green and maybe also pink putty for. Why do the watermelons have spots and seams from end to end? Are these not supposed to be watermelons? If these two were making fakes then why is she slurping?

Oh and what’s that critter poking its head out from behind the woman’s leg?”