I am also convinced that it is Snuffleufagus and that we are being gas-lighted into thinking it has always been Snuffleupagus.
Just write on your TV with a Sharpie.
Anyway, I think his lashes were real.
If this is a semi-open thread I'll post my Siberian fires update:
Short Vox article with stats and maps, as is their wont
Longer L.A. Times article about how the fires are spurring political changes:
Four years ago, Russia instituted a policy of letting remote forest fires burn unless it made sense economically to put them out. . . . Now Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the government to examine the "control zone" burn regulations when parliament meets next month. A change in the policy could have far-reaching benefits in the fight against climate change.
Russia is a global leader in forest depletion -- a significant cause of global warming -- in large part because of China's seemingly insatiable appetite for Russian lumber.
The sharpie map is one thing, but what few people are talking about is that he then went on twitter with a second faked map. He's discovering new frontiers in pettiness.
One more: NASA images of smoke across the Arctic.
1) A brain in rapid decline. Unfortunately the Democratic candidate won't be able to attack it as he is seen as suffering from the same problem.
2)
3) Definitely a P in Snuffleupagus. This has never been in question.
Honestly, looking really closely at women's eyes seems a little creepy.
I definitely pronounced it as Snuffleufagus as a Sesame Street watching child. I'm not sure I ever thought about how it was spelled.
I haven't noticed any fake eyelashes. Honestly, I'm still coming to grips with fact that 80s style ripped jeans somehow made a comeback (for women, at least).
Kids today have ripped jeans, but not in a way we can understand.
Magnetic fake eyelashes are a thing now. They're apparently less hassle than the glue-on kind.
Pro-tip: Remove your metal eyelashes before getting an MRI.
The Sharpiegate thing is such classic Trump. Completely unforced error that he compounds by dragging it out for days and days and refusing to back down at all. His campaign is now selling branded Sharpies.
It may be an error or it may be very well done distraction from the other shit he or his administration did this week.
It has always, unquestionably, been Snuffleupagus.
Re: eyelashes, yes, it's totally a thing. Women seem to wear them all the time now, not just for special occasions. I kind of like the way they look, especially the full-strip Lucille Ball/Miss Piggy type. I've been kind of tempted to try them but 1) I don't think they look so great on a monolid and 2) I'd probably blind myself.
(Last summer M's sister and niece stayed at our place while we were gone for a couple weeks, and when I got back all these little bits were sticking to the bottoms of my feet. I swept them up and examined them and was totally stumped for several minutes. Finally I surmised that every day before they got into bed they would tear off their fake eyelashes and flick them onto the floor. Wtf. This is story is more about M's insane family than about the current eyelash zeitgeist.)
the magnetic things would mean giving up the best part about fake eyelashes, which is the completely satisfying feeling of peeeeeeeeling them off, so right and good. particularly the next day, with a strong cup of tea to hand and just the faintest hint of a hangover. aaahhh.
17: I knew I was wrong, but my first thought was that "monolid" meant that you only had one eye.
18: Another pleasure I will never experience!
I haven't seen the eyelash thing personally, but they were described to me by one who has as not the glue-on full strip eyelashes of the ancient past, but eyelash extensions. Is this what we are talking about? We agreed it was nuts, and hella expensive ($200 or so, with periodic maintenance of $75). Looking them up on the interwebz seems to confirm this. I will admit they look real.
"They're real and they're spectacular."
"Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline"
I loved this NGS piece on Russian firejumpers way back when. Also, wildfires, unlike hurricanes, may actually be worth bombing.
Wow, that National Geographic reporter sure has an insatiable appetite for Russian lumb-- that is, he sure does mention the seat belts a lot.
Did you ever read Young Men and Fire, Mossy? It's maddeningly overwritten-- you want a couple fires to run through and burn out all the excess verbiage-- but has somehow managed to haunt me to this day. I read it on a hot, dry, claustrophobic September weekend in the Sierra Nevada and every molecule of air seemed to be dripping with unspent fuel. Really uncanny experience.
I will now that you've done such a bang-up job selling it.
"Hand me that sharpie," he said.
Mulvaney sighed, and handed him the sharpie.
"Which one is Alabama?" he asked.
"This one, sir."
He drew a half-circle on the map, then stood back and regarded his handiwork.
"Looks like a pair of balls," he said.
The Trump-Alabama-Dorian news is even dumber than usual, which is really saying something. I think it's driving Cassandane to an aneurysm. I tend to be more detached, so I'm a little bit more able to enjoy the absurdity. I kind of want to report one victory for my mental health. AIMHMHB, I have a friend from college on the other place who's reliably center-left, always posting stuff about Trump, and always getting in arguments with a bunch of right-wing nuts he knows personally. This often puts me in a minor spiral of depression about the futility of it all, both on his behalf and whether I should jump in or not like in politicalfootball's thread 8/28 (I almost never do). About the latest news, I handled it a bit differently. I provided a link to an article about Trump lying about the weather on his first day in office and made it clear I wasn't interested in an argument because I knew it would be pointless and just said the similarity between those two events was funny. I'm sure it didn't change anything, but it was certainly more fun than most arguments over there would have been.
Really, though, maybe I should defriend the guy. An exchange with friends-of-friends not going as badly as usual is a poor reason to stay friends.
Working on a sequel?
There has actually been a sequel sitting on my hard drive for months. One of these days I will be arsed to finish the publishing process and put it out in the wild. Trouble is, the content gets dated at a ridiculous pace, because it has been approximately 25 years since the 2016 elections.
On the Alabama thing, someone on The 1A made a good point about it, which was, while it seems trivial, it highlights two key features of the Trump Administration generally: (1) Trump doesn't pay any attention to The Details (which is why he was tweeting information from 5-day-old weather forecasts); and (2) Trump is really bad at disaster relief (which is why he was drawing with sharpies instead of, I don't know, FEMA-ing something).
28.2: You could always Stuart by unfollowing him to see if you miss his posts.
29: Trump is definitely generous with providing material.
I urge you to publish, so that I can read it.
Trump is really bad at disaster relief (which is why he was drawing with sharpies instead of, I don't know, FEMA-ing something).
The thing is, its a lot better to keep him busy with his sharpies and his crayons than to have him actively getting in FEMA's way by trying to insert himself into actual disaster relief.
20: yes, extensions are a different animal, aside from uncanny "realness" their other big selling point is that the process of having them installed sounds super relaxing, like an extremely expensive nap that makes your eyes look fabulous, but the downsides are giant absurd expense and you are supposed to sleep exclusively on your back so as not to prematurely dislodge 'em so that's a big nope from me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Snuffleupagus#Spelling
24 The wife was kayaking Gates of the Mountains yesterday. You definitely think about fire. McLean would have been pretty strongly affected by 1910 too, I'd imagine, having recently moved here as a kid. We've got a whiff of smoke just now, from prescribed burns in Idaho.
31/32: Good Ida. Never even thought of it.
You could Stuart him; exile/beheading are more convincing.
NMM to ThinkProgress.
Democrats doing a fine job with the old "maintaining institutional infrastructure".
26 is great.
What's this about a sequel? Did I miss something?
17 Didn't Snuffleupagus have large eyelashes?
35. You can sleep on an eyelash extension pillow. $30 and up!
Is it really sleep if you aren't on that pillow?
Gary Hart is still alive. Good to know.
Does smoked salmon really only last one week after you open the package? That's what the internet says, but the internet is full of a lot of bullshit.
Nevermind. I smelled it again. Not going to eat it.
Fortunately, you know where hungry bears can be found.
Smoking salmon seems like it would make the bong water smell extra bad.
Stuart and Ida are the new Alice and Bob.
What's this about a sequel? Did I miss something?
49 Looks like you're right about that.
This is getting a bit meta, dudes.
mist hung on him like a bedwetter's blanketWell-played, okay, but was that necessary?
Someone should start a clothing store called Trumpy Alabahamas.
I heard Trump is big on bedwetting.
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They have narrow mouths, not narrow horizons.