It’s May! It’s May! The lusty Month of May! Yes, it’s May 1: May Day, International Workers Day, and Walpurgis Nacht. But the weather is still dire in Chicago: last night it was chilly and the cold rain, blown by the wind, was coming down sideways. On this day in 1945, Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda killed themselves in the bunker in Berlin, but not before killing their children by forcing cyanide pills into their mouths. On a happier note, in 1956 Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was made available to the public on this day. And, in 2011, President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. Special Forces.
On May 1, Joseph Heller was born in 1923, Judy Collins in 1939 (she’s performing this month in NYC), and Rita Coolidge in 1945. Besides the Goebbels family, Spike Jones died on this day in 1965 and Steve Reeves in 2000. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is nosing about forlornly in the kitchen, apparently not having found enough rodents in the orchard:
Hili: There is peace in the kitchen when the table is empty.A: I’ve already had my breakfast.Hili: And that’s not fair.
Hili: Pokój w kuchni jest kiedy stół jest pusty.
Ja: Ja już jadłem śniadanie.
Hili: I to właśnie jest nieuczciwe.
And in Wroclawek, Leon’s clearly been seeing too many superhero movies:
Leon: Now I’m going to fly!
Lagnaippe: a cartoon from reader Barry:
Our family pet knows all the states of our kitchen – what’s going on is signaled by the particular sounds – opening a peanut jar, or a box of crackers. These are signals that trigger the willingness of a sleeping animal to perk the ears and move quickly to see if I am sharing. A pickle jar gets no reaction whatsoever.
That cartoon sent in by Barry is great. Thanks.
*laughter* Love the cartoon.
Still too cold for spring up here in Ottawa too 🙁
Anyone know what the small wooden box is, that Hili’s standing next to?
The box contains Swedish crispbread – not something Hili is interested in.
Thanks. I guess the lid is designed to fall into the box, to sort of keep the bread pressed down, and to reduce evaporation/drying out?
@Lurker111:
Butter press, maybe – but that’s a total guess. Perhaps our host can enlighten us.
That cartoon should be pasted into all the Gideon bibles in every hotel.
But the sons did a great job. Not one trilobite was missed being stuffed under the Permian-Jurassic boundary, not even the teeny tiny ones. Not one.
I hope they didn’t accidently put rabbits in the precambrian.
There is a hidden idea in the cartoon that (?) Ham and Shem (the Noachian sons I remember) are more expert boilogists (sic) than the DiscoStute can muster today. To misquote a Turtle god, it’s idiots all the way down.