Monday: Hili dialogue

May 16, 2016 • 6:15 am

Now it really is Monday, or at least I’m pretty sure. And NO RAIN: mostly sunny with a high of about 66°F (19°C). On May 16, 1943, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto came to an end as the Nazis dynamited the Great Synagogue and then the buildings. 13,000 Jews were killed and the remaining 50,000 sent to the camps. Onl 300 Nazis died. Only two buildings remain in Warsaw; the outline of the former ghetto is inlaid in the street in bricks. On this day in 1975, Junko Tabei, a 35-year-old Japanese, became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Notable births on this day include the Russian Élie Metchnikoff (1845), who won the Nobel Prize, along with Paul Ehrlich, for their work in immunology. Those who died on this day include the great jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (1953), Sammy Davis Jr. (1990), and puppeteer Jim Henson (1990; same day as Sammy).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is tattling on Cyrus:

A; What are you looking at?
Hili: Cyrus’s run off somewhere again without permission.
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In Polish:

Ja: Czemu się tak przyglądasz?
Hili: Bo Cyrus znowu gdzieś pobiegł bez pozwolenia.

And a nice tw**t from Persian Rose:

https://twitter.com/PersianRose1/status/731776250130235393

 

More Lagniappe: Fox kit harasses black cat (h/t: jsp). Click on screenshot to see short video:

Screen shot 2016-05-16 at 4.50.14 AM

7 thoughts on “Monday: Hili dialogue”

  2. The cat’s tail is up, ergo it’s happy/signaling friendly. So ‘harasses’ may be the wrong word.

    Very interesting that it doesn’t play-fight with the kit but goes for snuggling instead. My very uneducated guess is that the cat is treating the kit as a newborn/very young animal.

  3. Re: Cat and Crow.

    I would have captioned the cat thinking to himself, “If he says ‘Nevermore’ just one more time …”

    1. A raven appears from time to in the Discworld books. Goes by name of “Quoth” and hates the obvious next line.

  4. Mention of the Nobel Prize reminds me of the piece about the cancer treatment on 60 minutes last night. Genetically modified polio virus injected into the tumor and begins the process of destroying the tumor. Looks like the testing is successful enough that it will be enlarged and used on many more patients.

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