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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law)

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 5h

My copy arrived yesterday, haven't started reading it yet. It's a great pity that those bounders at Unbound screwed everything up and the final publication is as softcover. 3:O(> (This moose prefers hardcover editions: they don't fall to bits after repeated rereading.)

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 8h

Crying "Ribbit!" may be more effective (though less Shakespearian).

3:O)>

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 8h

I got so fed up with it that I started watching DVDs on the Mac, and setting a bookmark after that crap had finished so rewatches weren't troubled by it.

Later I stopped buying DVDs altogether for about a decade.

Definitely counterproductive for them. 3:O#>

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 8h

Someone posted that before they returned a loan machine (used for development) they did the rm -rf then had second thoughts, booted it off an external disk and overwrote the internal drive with an endless repeat of their copyright notice and did a clean install.

The supplier queried this.

"Trust."

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 11h

I have seen Him in the refugees arriving on our shores
And I’ve seen His Pontius Pilates on the House and Senate floors.
Let us build Him up an altar before ICE’s prison doors.

lauraadrian2.bsky.social @lauraadrian2.bsky.social · 19h

Wow. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord

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Dinahrsmith @dinahsmith.bsky.social · 16h

The cat’s name was Buster Keaton?! That’s amazing.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 9h

Of course it was: if your name was Keaton could you resist naming your cat (or dog) "Buster"?

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 18h

I believe there is documentation supporting this statement, but I am just a chocolate moose. 3:O|>

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 21h

Ah. 3:O(>

I can't think of any safe way of buying you a strimmer in that case - unless you've got an Amazon wishlist and can put it on there.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 21h

Are you on Mastodon? (Due to the Online Stupidity Act in the UK, O can't use the "Chat" facility unless I set up a VPN or jump through various hoops and disclose information.)

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 21h

Have any shorks or gators appeared on the scene yet?

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 21h

Basic black for this moose. 3:O)>

(Besides, I can never find camo trousers in my waist size - not even in Officer's supply.)

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 22h

Antipasto will be served for lunch; attendees are reminded to keep it well away from the pasta to avoid a taste explosion.

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 23h

"Fourplanks" springs to mind as well: twice as thick as two short planks.

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 23h

The equipment is also white - prototype (and the manufacturer's truck)?

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 23h

As one professional soldier to another:

Battery Sergeant-Major "Shut UP!" Williams with his usual catchphrase: Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind.

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Are you sure it's a deliberately applied protective coating, and not the lubricant from the drawing and swaging process the pipe went through during manufacture? I'm sure I have heard of the "sprayed lubricant everywhere" before this. <ick> 3:O((>

(Retired now, so it doesn't matter to this moose.)

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Holding the tape up at /just/ the right angle to see the outline of where the BOT reflective marker had been, and then applying a new one.

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Be thankful you didn't borrow the tape cleaner from my first job, which was an open-reel thing that the tape librarian (who is long gone to her reward) sat in front of while it was cleaning tapes...

...chain smoking.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Crowdfund?

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

What does a weedwhacker cost? (This moose uses a spade and scraper on the front yard, and loppers + a shredder (not to mention plate armour) on the back garden (it's full of blackberry thicket - organic barbed wire- and getting worse, I may have to consider a flamethrower).)

3:O(>

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Which was the entire point. America's unsinkable aircraft carrier.

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Not any more: most of the bases closed at the end of the Cold War. Bentwaters, Greenham Common, Upper Heyford and Woodbridge all shut down around 1993. (Upper Heyford was used as a giant car park for unsold (and traded-in) cars, with the magazines leased to pyrotechnic companies for storage.