Scatological Humor

If you have a septic system which has to be serviced at three year intervals you can appreciate this.  It seems that in the septic sucking world most haulers strive to add some humor to their turd tankers. 

Noteable Quoteable

I have an active social life and it’s probably easier in the era of Trump. 

We’ve had ‘perfect family man’ presidents before, after all, and many of those men sold out our country, even if their wives were happy the whole time. If politicians' family lives aren't what really matter to the voters, maybe that's a good thing.  

I'm a representative, not a monk.    

- Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-FL 

Paleofeces



The Lloyds Bank Coprolite. Photo by Linda Spashett CC by 2.5

This is a coprolite.  A feces fossil.  Petrified poop.  And the third and final scatological entry to be published for a spell.

 

These trace fossils - coprolites - can provide archaeologists valuable information and clues about the diet of the living creature that produced it. 

 

The paleofeces sample pictured above is a fossilized human turd known as the Lloyds Bank Coprolite. It is likely the largest and most valuable on record.  It dates back to approximately the 9th century and the person responsible is believed to be a Viking.  It currently rests at the Jórvík Viking Centre in the city of York, England. 

 

Analysis has revealed that the individual to whom this belongs consumed large amounts of meat.  The stool sample also contained eggs from parasitic roundworms including:  Trichuris trichiura (whipworm) and Ascaris lumbricoides (maw worm).  Yeech! 

 

You can learn more about this coprolite - including how it earned its name - and additional background on the study of fossilized poop here.

POWTS

Which is the acronym for Private Onsite Waste Treatment System. 

The Turd Hearse cometh. 
 

 
This is how you handle your shit when you live in rural America and don't have a municipal sewer system.  Everything flows downhill in the plumbing to a 1000 gallon tank where the solids settle.  From there the filtered effluent spills into another tank before being pumped into a mound system.  Once in the mound it slowly filters back into the ground water.       

Our own miniature sewage treatment plant.      

Got the three year clean bill of health after having the tanks pumped and inspected.       

That would be right.  Every three years.      

The county sanitarian requires it due to the fractured dolomite limestone bedrock that makes-up the Door peninsula.        

No leaking or failing septic systems allowed.  

The fella pumping the effluent out of the tanks was chatty-enough.  With all the rain business has been excellent.  But the stink. 

All I gotta say is……Whew!

Plumbing

Credit to my pal - Six Deuce.

Out with the old ....

In with the new....

Better living thru efficient circulation of your effluent thru your POWTS......

Tariff Man

Gary Varvel - Indianapolis Star

Coiffed like an ‘80’s mullet!

Less powerful than Mitch McConnell!

Look!

Up in the sky!

It's a turd!

Casting blame!

It's Tariff Man!

Able to bankrupt tall buildings in a single bound!  Yes, it's Tariff Man - strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with hands and intellect smaller than that of mortal men. 

Tariff Man - who can impose taxes on commerce unilaterally.  Change the course of the yield curve in a single day.  And fight a never-ending battle against truth, justice and the laws of economics. 

Stay tuned for another exciting episode of Tariff Man and the Republican party - raising taxes so that you get less.

Scatological Humor

If you have a septic system which has to be serviced at three year intervals you can appreciate this.  It seems that in the septic sucking world most haulers strive to add some humor to their turd tankers. 

This particular honey wagon raises the level of septic truck humor to an art form.....

click on the image for a closer look

 

Chummy With the Evil Empire

As he did in an interview with NPR this week, Obama cited an Economist and YouGov poll that showed 37 percent of Republicans with a favorable view of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a leader Obama revealed that he’d personally scolded and warned against more election hacking interference during an encounter in China in September, and whom on Friday he said runs a country slowly careening around the drain.

Not to mention all the blood on his hands in Syria, by Obama’s account.  Ronald Reagan would be rolling over in his grave, Obama said.

If the 37 percent figure is factual - or even within the margin of error - I'm chagrined.  The first and only GOP presidential campaign  (and last candidate for president) I made a financial contribution to was Ronald Reagan.

Vlad Putin is a former head of the Soviet KGB.  He is a stone cold killer.

If I had to hazard a guess  Reagan would disapprove of getting chummy with the Dark Side.  Some days I think the GOP has lost its mind...

Sewer Dweller

Photographic evidence of what was discovered living in the city sewer.

click to enlarge

The elusive turd hustler...

The Gift

Climbed into a tree stand a few days ago to see if anything was moving about.

Mostly what was moving about was mosquitoes.  Swarms of them.  Thank goodness for the ThermaCell I had clipped to my fanny pack.  It pretty much chased the biting bugs away.

I didn't see anything but I did spook a deer when I did a couple of come-hither soft grunt calls.

All was not lost however.

I did find this gift awaiting me as I climbed into the stand...

 click on the turd to enlarge