Tuesday: Hili dialogue (and Leon lagniappe)

December 1, 2015 • 5:24 am

It’s Tuesday, the have apprehended the University of Illinois student who made the threat that closed our campus yesterday, and the threat, as I suspected, wasn’t credible. Campus is back open for business today, and it’s also the day of my semiannual tooth cleaning. On this day in 1885, the soft drink Dr. Pepper (“10 2 4“) was served in Waco, Texas, Woody Allen was born in 1935, and the evolutionary geneticist J. B. S. Haldane died in 1964 (I have two letters from him that were given to me by other evolutionists). Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili monopolizes Andrzej’s arm and also wheedles him for cream (the yogurt container to Andrzej’s left is also the container used for Hili’s favorite dairy product):

Hili: Cream is also sold in such containers.
A: I know.
Hili: Knowledge isn’t enough.
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In Polish:
Hili: W takich opakowaniach sprzedają również śmietankę.
Ja: Wiem.
Hili: Wiedza to jeszcze nie wszystko.

And, in Wroclawek, Leon the Dark Tabby, who wasn’t allowed to attend the wedding of his staff Elzbieta and Andrzej, nevertheless benefits from the wedding largesse:

Leon: Hmm which bunch of flowers I will munch on today?

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(Malgorzata’s explanation: Elzbieta and Andrzej got plenty of flowers at their wedding.)

8 thoughts on “Tuesday: Hili dialogue (and Leon lagniappe)”

  1. Re: 1st pic. I often work with my Crazy Orange Kitty draped over my mousing arm.

    What’s really weird is when I’m playing a video game and he gets up on the desk between me and the keyboard. I wind up having to play the game through his legs and over his back.

    Remarkably, I actually do pretty well when I have to do this.

    1. Wow. How many times I have been in the same position as Andrzej, a cat in one hand and a mouse in the other. Can’t type with one hand worth a damn.

      1. It’s a skill that’s possible to acquire. Baihu often monopolizes one of my arms…so it’s either do the least worst you can with a single arm or just give up and get nothing done until his nap is over. And, as we all know, cats nap a lot.

        b&

  3. Can you tell us about J. B. S. Haldane? Though we readers know little if anything about him he sounds like an interesting person that must have been important to the understanding of evolution.

    1. “Though we readers know little if anything about him…”

      I take it you’re not a biology major? 🙂 Or is it, alas, that his name no longer comes up in some curricula? I daresay many of us have Haldane volumes on our shelves (mine: The Causes of Evolution).

      Should Jerry not wish to reply, I suggest that Google is your friend. 😉 (I’m curious about those JBSH letters he has, though!)

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