jello, like his mind rone 10/6 '25

I am businessman Donald Trump
I smell like i just took a dump
I am now your president

NATO power will soon go away
I will be Putin one day
I will command all of you
We'll host Andrew Tate in school 
We'll host Andrew Tate in school

Mar-a-Lago über alles
Mar-a-Lago über alles
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago

Podcasters will control you
One-hundred percent supplements
You will buy all of their crap
And always wear the MAGA cap

Captured media won't report
On those suckers we deport
And they won't come back, we say
Immigrants, oh you will pay
Immigrants, oh you will pay

Mar-a-Lago über alles
Mar-a-Lago über alles
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago

Now it is 2025
Masked goons rent vans to drive
It's the neck gaiter secret police
They have come to ruin the peace

Come quietly to the car
You'll look nice behind our bars
Don't resist our display of power
This should only take an hour

Bam! Throwing tear gas at the mob
We're just here to do our job
We'll deport you little chumps
When you mess with President Trump
When you mess with President Trump

Mar-a-Lago über alles
Mar-a-Lago über alles
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago

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14h 2 Comments
Nice work. I’ve been wanting to take a shot at exactly the same song for a while but hadn’t sat down to try it yet.



Disposable Heroes are a tough act to follow with their “I’m your governor Pete Wilson, the baddest governor ever to grab a mic and go BOOM”.
CM Adams
I should try the other I had in mind a while ago: an update of Phil Ochs’s Here’s To the State of Richard Nixon (which was itself an update of his own Here’s to the State of Mississippi)
CM Adams
 

He’s Ours Because We Killed Him nerdsholmferret 10/3 '25

What NHL star scored "5 goals 5 ways" for the Penguins in 1988? (even-strength, power-play, short-handed, penalty-shot, open-net)

What scientific constant is celebrated at 6:02 on October 23rd?

What German philosopher and economist was a correspondent for the New-York Daily Tribune from 1852 to 1862?

What author is credited with the first modern detective story, in which C. Auguste Dupin solves a double homicide?

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3d 3 Comments
it was driving me nuts that i could only remember the NHL star's first name, i gave up and looked it up
rone
It's a particularly fun name if you know French.
nerdsholmferret
indeed!
rone
 
 

the cruelty of a complex system that fails rone 9/29 '25

We drove to Portland last week to say goodbye this weekend to a longtime friend from the days of Usenet, who also happened to be the boss who held my job while I recovered from GBS. He's had ALS for about fifteen months now and he can barely move. Watching his wife tend to his respiratory needs (he is no longer able to clear fluid from his lungs) was heartbreaking and also brought back memories when Kim had to do something very similar while I was paralyzed.  But we were both glad to be there, tell him we loved him, and also to give his wife as much support as we could.

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6d 4 Comments
You’re a good friend.
Lindsay Harris Friel
I'm really sorry - that sounds extremely tough.
Matt Lichtenwalner
Heartbreaking indeed, and it sounds like a little traumatizing for you as well. Like Lindsay says, you're a very good friend.
Anne Mollo
I'm very sorry to hear about your friend. I'm glad that you were able to travel to see him and support his wife.
Michele Grant
 

Shake It nerdsholmferret 9/26 '25

They didn't show us Lake Assal on the map, unfortunately, but we did win.  I got the first one below from the lyrics to "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

What opera about a clown is featured in a double-bill with Cavalleria rusticana ?

Hal Newhouser quit his scouting job in protest when the Houston Astros did not select what shortstop from Kalamazoo with their first overall pick?

In what Horn of Africa country is Lake Assal, from which 4 million tons of salt is extracted annually?

What car rental company has the slogan "We try harder" ?

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9/26 3 Comments
Pagliacci, Jeter, Eritrea, Avis
rone
Ah, but you cannot shake Eritrea.
nerdsholmferret
It shakes itself!
rone
 

Semi-successful nerdsholmferret 9/21 '25

We finished eighth out of about 18 teams in the semis.  Oh well...

What U.S. president was known for saying "speak softly and carry a big stick"?

What city, which held the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in 1898, had its name used at the line by a player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021?

What meal was ordered by Margot from Chef Julian Slowik in The Menu?

What 9-letter word describes the body's hormone system of glands and tissues?

What is the most common type of star in our galaxy, comprising 60%-70% of the stars in the Milky Way?

What NHL team has the nickname "Habs" ?

According to BBC Earth, what is the shortest-lived land vertebrate?  A) Flores giant rat, B) Labord's chameleon, C) dwarf pygmy goby, D) Fresno kangaroo rat?

Before And After (two answers that smoosh together):  Boxer Mancini and an aboriginal Australian invention.

In 1976, what band was sent a telegram by Groucho Marx congratulating them on their "sage choice" in album titles?  [This was a Final Jeopardy question that eliminated a Baltimorean contestant]

What 3 countries and one autonomous region were labeled the Four Asian Tigers for their industrial growth and export economies after World War II?

What type of foods are spelt, teff, and triticale?

What video game is featured in the plot of the 2009 film "Couples Retreat"?

Dunlop manufactures balls with different-colored dots for various skill levels in what sport, developed in 19th century England?

The phrase "fior di latte" (Italian for "flower of milk") refers to what type of cheese?

Valletta, the smallest capital city in the European Union, is in what country of historically strategic importance?

What three U.S. states have the lowest average elevation?

What Game of Thrones character said "confession feels good under the right circumstances" ?

From what is the Native American crafted product wampum made?

What actor appears in the three movies "The Replacements", "Four Christmases", and "Iron Man"?

What Maryland county is named for the longest-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence?

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9/21 9 Comments
I would have performed poorly, having just three: Teddy, endocrine, and grain. I was way off on my guess for Groucho Marx's telegram. Meal ordered by Margot? That question is entirely nonsense to me!
Chris Herdt
We actually got the Menu question right, thanks to my bad habit of researching movies I haven't seen. Some OPWers have spent time in the state with the lowest average elevation!
nerdsholmferret
Florida has to be one of the three. RI and DE?
rone
I suggested RI, but our team settled on a state so low-lying that parts of it are below sea-level, which was the correct choice.
nerdsholmferret
what city: Omaha

star: red dwarf

Habs: Montreal Canadiens

Before and after: boom boom boomerang

tigers: South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Valletta: Malta
rone
Ok. Ones that others haven’t already answered:

Marx - Led Zeppelin?

Pygmy goby?

Gwyneth Paltrow?

Ann Arundel?



CM Adams
So... Anne Arundel, the wife of Cecil Calvert, Baron Baltimore, signed the Declaration of Independence?
nerdsholmferret
I didn’t know who she was! It crossed my mind that it might be one of those historical names that sounds like a lady but was actually a man. Like Evelyn Waugh.
CM Adams
Our biweekly trivia night is tomorrow. I’ll save the ones we miss (and any especially fun ones) to post here.
CM Adams
 

Lies! East-Lies! nerdsholmferret 9/19 '25

What U.S. state is the only one without any Division I sports?

What U.S. territory claims to be "Where America's Day Begins"  because of its proximity to the International Date Line?  Other territories have a better claim, including the Northern Mariana Islands, whose capital is Saipan.

What 11-letter word starting with "c" describes fruits such as apples, pears, and bananas, which continue to ripen after being harvested?

Debbie Reynolds is to Carrie Fisher as Peggy Lipton is to what Parks and Recreation actress?

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9/19
 

i disable this wherever possible rone 9/15 '25

STOP DOING TYPING INDICATORS

• YEARS OF ONLINE CHAT yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for "x is typing..."

• Wanted to see what your partner was typing in real time? We had a tool for that, it was called "talk(1)"

• "Please cause me anxiety by giving me the illusion that someone is taking their time composing a thoughtful reply" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello please give me blinking, bouncing ellipses"
They have played us for absolute fools

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9/15 6 Comments
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Lindsay Harris Friel
PREACH.

I turn that shit instantly off. Nobody needs to know if I've read their text, nobody needs to know if I'm typing, nobody needs to know if I'm online. My phone is for my convenience, nobody else's. Damn kids today.
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
I find this useful in slack at work. When we're enthusing and in danger of speaking past each other, it's a hint to maybe let the other guy finish a thought.
Thomas Boutell
Oh, jeez, good point.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Also it made for a cute scene on Ted Lasso.
Thomas Boutell
I miss “talk”.

Also “write”.

Also “yes JerryAlexandratos | write boutell”.
CM Adams
 

Have Some nerdsholmferret 9/12 '25

What animal is referred to by the word cervine?

What U.S. Civil War general has a style of facial hair named after him?

What does the unit pascal measure?

What Portuguese archipelago has a type of fortified wine named after it?

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9/12 11 Comments
Deer

Burnside

Pressure?

Madeira
CM Adams
Winner, winner, brownie sundae!
nerdsholmferret
Ran them all by my best teammate and she didn’t get any!
CM Adams
here i thought Madeira only referred to the island
rone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Some_Madeira_M%27Dear
nerdsholmferret
Today I learned what zeugma is!
Lindsay Harris Friel
And learning is half the battle! The other half is remembering!
nerdsholmferret
I was very excited to note that, on her most recent album, Taylor Swift finally discovered zeugma and worked in two instances of it:

“You crashed my party and your rental car.”

And “was it hazing for an obscure fraternity I pledged and I still mean it that old habits die screaming”.

I especially appreciate the second one, not least because it took about 30 listens for me to catch it. But neither of course can hold a candle to the most famous musical example - that being the Humpty Dance’s “both how I’m living and my nose is large”.

Anyway…I hope on the new album, she starts using chiasmus.

CM Adams
I just googled “chiasmus,” and the Wikipedia definition says it’s “is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words".

A similar device, antimetabole, also involves a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses in an A-B-B-A configuration, but unlike chiasmus, presents a repetition of words.”

But, Google’s first search result was from the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, saying, “a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.”



Well, which is it, Internet? Chiasmus or timetable? Or is that for a doctor to decide?
Lindsay Harris Friel
I SAID ANTIMETABOLE NOT TIMETABLE wtf.
Lindsay Harris Friel
In Latin lit, it’s repeated words but with reversed order and sometimes different uses. (Or if the author is especially flamboyant, repeated PHRASES with reversed order.)

Example from modern lyrics would be some rap song I heard years ago with the lines:

“So I wait for [cant remember] to attack

Every time a car backfires I fire back.”

I think Polonius uses it in more than one place in Hamlet, but the example I’m trying to remember isn’t quite coming to me at the moment.
CM Adams
 

quick noms rone 9/9 '25

turns out papadum really does puff up nice and crisp with a little oil after fifty seconds in the microwave

most of a puffy, cracked papadum on a paper towel
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9/9 5 Comments
Yum.
Lindsay Harris Friel
So much crunchy goodness. And yeah, I’m always a little surprised that they turn out so well in the microwave.
Anne Mollo
Wait. Are these reheated papadums from a restaurant, or did you make your own papadums in a microwave?
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
you can buy them raw in a package, like tortillas
rone
Thanks! I'll keep an eye out!
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
 
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