I hate to be that asshole, but that is no dog. It’s a calf. That looks like it is pooping, ironically enough.

Also Allah is the word “God”, just in Arabic. It’s pretty boring, actually.

I’m the child of the kind of people who were in the International Federation of Wargaming and played D&D obsessively back when it was first published in the early 1970's as a supplement to Chainmail, so I know a lot about early tabletop roleplaying games.

I also wonder if it is also relevant that a larger percentage of black voters results in a victory for Clinton, because she has won 11 open primary states (including several where the white population hovers in that 70% and Mississippi where white people are in the late 50's percentage wise, but the black population…

Sanders did win Hawaii, where there is a 25% white population. Alaska is 67% white, and Sanders won there as well.

Fair enough. I am practically deaf right now (I don’t hear very well, and having an ear infection doesn’t help), so I did the reasonable thing and copy pasted off of the internet.

Well, that and “My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana/You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas mama”.

...Deer is Venison. Veal is calf meat.

I’d never heard of that before, I’ve always heard they gave people mercury instead. I went and looked it up, and it turns out that they gave it after mercury but before penicillin. Still not ideal, especially with this being the time period that Scheele’s Green (and Paris Green to a lesser extent) was hanging around.…

That mixture of apple cider vinegar stuff is called “Fire Cider”, it’s just super old fashioned folk medicine, especially from Appalachia. It’s handy if you have a cold and need a decongestant and don’t really want something with pseudoephedrine, but it doesn’t really cure shit.

Well, I mean, arsenic is natural, and that’s not going to really help people keep on living.

I actually wrote a paper on sobriquets like -ollywood and -gate when I was younger, and here’s the best I can come up with:

Pretty sure lockjaw in this case is an old-timey reference to tetanus.

That happened to me once. I glued that crap back on.

And one of the reasons I head people use for the idea Discordianism might be a parody religion is the part of the Principia Discordia where they list the saints and they specifically cite St. Yossarian, St. Quixote, and St. Bokonon.

Bladderwrack is a type of seaweed - it was the original source of iodine when we first started treating goiters. My family made tea out of it and dried it to make potato chips for the child who hated potatoes. You more often roast meat and fish in it, than eat it though.

When I was that age, my favorite foods were Bladderwrack, Brussel Sprouts, Sauerkraut, and Raw Oysters. I hated soda, chocolate milk, and hamburgers.

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Happy Days are Here Again, [Adams/Lincoln] and Liberty, I’m Just Wild About Harry, Sidewalks of New York, Nixon Now, etc.

Man, and I thought it was terrible walking around town during a weekend and having the (male) street preachers on every corner yelling at cars that can’t hear them, and having them harass me for wearing pants and having short hair. This rip-off “Over There” is unfortunately not surprising to me.