Monday, June 25, 2018

Entomologist gets e-mail about paper..25 years later

Having published a paper 25 years ago and then getting maybe two phone calls from colleagues to discuss a few finer points and "keep in touch", Cal Obermeyer was surprised to get his biggest fan letter ever.


"Yes, this senior in college in Cologne e-mailed me and proposed numerous further studies based on my paper (THE ICHNEUMON WASP VENTURIA CANESCENS: OVIPOSITION AND AVOIDANCE OF SUPERPARASITISM)."

I am pretty much done with field-work, but I can get him some funding and maybe a place in a grad school here. This is fantastic!

Cal said he would take some minimal part in the field work and would come and look at the setup and observe the insects.

Trump to use helicopters and plastic handcuffs to deport foreigners



President Trump this week feels completely overwhelmed by judges and Democrats limiting his powers to deport foreigners that infest our Southern states. These people come from countries somewhere to the south of Mexico. He wants to send them back. “I’ve had some calculations done and for the price of resettling one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.”

While discussing his recent trip to Minnesota, Trump noticed that he was not using the Marine one fleet of helicopters much. When he uses them abroad or some locations here, they always fly three Marine 1 helicopters. There must be some more.
“How many more of these do we have?”

“Thirty five total, sir.”
“How far do they go?”
“About 300 miles and back.”
Trump then quickly moved to put together a plan. He only needed the helicopters, maybe 100 national guard men and plastic restraints.





“Clear out the cargo areas and put out some sort of cushions for the Mexicans to sit on. Fly them all 300 miles South of the border. Give them all a one liter bottle of water when you drop them off.”

“They are not Mexicans and this does not take them back to a safe zone in their own county.”
“Close enough.”

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Mozart demoted to shoe box!


Sioux Falls, S.D. -- Medieval scholar, Renaissance Fair organizer and local Taco Bell manager Jesus Gonzales took time over the weekend (he only had to work Friday at Taco Bell) to organize his CD collection. CDs had started to collect on the coffee table. The ten world-music CDs got their own 20 CD plastic case ("I might get some more"), but his 26 Mozart CDs went to a shoe box, placed on a shelf in the closet. They were marked Mozart on both ends of the shoe box. "I think they will be quite happy next to the Haydn symphonies shoe box," commented Gonzales.

The partial collection prior to putting them away:


Monday, June 18, 2018

Songwriter can’t stop loving her


Nashville, TN – Songwriter can’t stop loving her. Songwriter Earl “Mac” Davis had two cigarettes and three cups of coffee while watching CNN this morning, then went directly to write down words and chords to a melody in his head. The song practically wrote itself with no additional effort. Earl played around with the lyrics a bit, but then went with the verse and chorus as written, ending the chorus with “I can’t stop loving her”, which was also going to be the title. Earl’s friend Nathaniel met him for lunch soon after. Nathaniel heard Earl sing out the chorus, and liked the melody, which sounded original. He pointed out to Earl that his five last girl friends had no trouble ending the relationship with him. “It’s just a song, Nathaniel, I gotta make a living,” replied Earl. “Besides, she ain’t left yet.”

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Shocking truth from cell phones: Nobody at FBI likes Trump

Earlier in the year it was leaked out through a roundabout way that two FBI agents sent endless messages making fun of Trump. Now this finally got Trump thinking.


What if we collected all the FBI cell phones, all the ones not being used by field agents? So they did. Giuliani assigned a low paid team of interns to read every text and summarize each phone as anti-Trump, neutral or pro-Trump. Any slight joke or tweet comment or smart ass word against Trump was marked as an anti-Trump phone.



The results were remarkable. Employees that were known to be loyal, seeking to clear the president's name or otherwise working on Trump related issues were all found to be completely fair in their dealings with Trump as part of their job. Yet 100% of the phones were labeled anti-Trump. This ranged from calling him an imbecile to serious, real allegations of Trump misconduct to fellow FBI workers.

NOBODY LIKES TRUMP!

Giuliani scrambled to cover up the study and shred all paper copies he had carelessly passed out to senior staff before he read it himself. But of course it leaked out. The Trump White House always leaks out. The people are now using secret burner phones during the day and tweeting under false names. This takes about 15% of any work day at the White House.

The FBI were given new phones for free and the entire lot of phones collected were destroyed. Trump himself came to witness the destruction. It took some three Diet Cokes until the last of the phones was manually smashed.

Polls indicate some voters still like Trump. It appears that they like him in places that are far from the capitol. Leading groups of supporters include pig farmers in Iowa and ranchers in Montana. Then the entire West coast again hates Trump.

Friday, June 1, 2018

Cave Woman Always Said They Would



Southern France, 12500 BP -- After giving birth to 10 boys and two girls, area cave woman finally got her predicted disaster. "They have been running around with sticks as long as I remember. And they always had to sharpen the points with whatever flint their dad left lying around. Now one of them has put out the eye of the second youngest boy. I always said they would. I hope they learn from this."