Wednesday: Hili dialogue

January 20, 2016 • 6:00 am

I will neglect the preliminaries today in view of the lagniappe below, except to say that the weather is warming up: the high will be a tropical 23°F (-5°C) today, and may even get up to the freezing point by the weekend.  Oh, and I’ll request of readers that they send me no more than one email per day, as my influx of emails is getting out of hand. If you have multiple items to send (and I do appreciate them, as they’re the source of most of my posts), please combine them into one email. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili continues to incite trouble:

Hili: There is no hiding the truth, we are being ignored.
Cyrus: Maybe we could write a petition?
Hili: Petitions no longer have any effect on anybody.

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In Polish:
Hili: Nie ma co ukrywać, jesteśmy ignorowani.
Cyrus: To może napisać petycję?
Hili: Petycje już na nikogo nie działają.

. . . and some lagniappe from Heather Hastie, who found this lovely diagram on Facebook:

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Lagniappe squared (h/t Barry): a cat that sounds like Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges (examples of his famous “EEB-BEE-BEE” sound can be found here). Turn the sound up:

https://twitter.com/andymndy/status/689275074977742848

Finally, it’s Penguin Awareness Day. You can see many tw**ts at #PenguinAwarenessDay, and here are two:

12 thoughts on “Wednesday: Hili dialogue”

  1. I wonder if PCC[E] could perhaps set up a free email account for WEIT that would mean he could segregate mail into a personal/work & a reader contributions…!?

    For penguin Awareness Day we tw#eted this –
    Endocranial anatomy of Antarctic Eocene stem penguins: implications for sensory system evolution in Sphenisciformes (Aves) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2015.981635
    and this –
    Hearing Abilities in Antarctic Penguins
    https://epic.awi.de/28518/1/Polarforsch2002_2-3_9.pdf

    He says “the hearing abilities and underwater
    vocalisations are poorly documented, and require further research” – sounds like a great Phd opportunity to me!
    🙂

  2. Some interesting things happened on this day. In 1920, the ACLU was started; Emperor Decius began a general persecution of Christians, and executed Pope Fabian and the full English parliament met for the first time in 1265. Musician Edgar Froese died in 2015 and Alan Freed, the DJ credited with coining the term “rock & roll” died in 1965. There were some distinguished people born on 20 January, including George Burns (1896) Buzz Aldrin and Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) (1930), Bill Maher (1956) and, if I may be so bold, sometime WEIT commenter E.A. Blair (1957).

      1. Correct. Curly didn’t occur to me because the cat was doing a more high-pitched sound, and rhythmically as well it seemed closer to Shemp’s sound. These are serious matters and so I hope there will be no fighting over this point.

    1. NZ women got the vote in 1893 (years before any other country) largely due to a petition. There was, of course, a whole lot of other hard work happening as part of the campaign, but the petition had a significant impact on parliament.

      In recent years the government has changed its stance on things like mining in national parks after protest marches. Some call it flip-flopping. Personally I consider it recognizing the will of the people, which is surely what governments are supposed to do (depending on the circumstances).

        1. I remember being quite shocked and surprised years ago when I discovered that in the US “liberal” was an insult. 🙂

  5. Hmm, never actually had a smoothie, and now that I’m denied a penguin smoothie, I probably won’t. The fad will be over before the decade is out.

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