Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Oscar Day!



The photo will get more views than the Oscars.


March 10, 1983: the era of U.S. seaplanes ended when US Coast Guard retired the last operational Grumman HU-16E Albatross. The last U.S. Navy seaplane was the P5M Marlin which was retired in November 1967.


The Albatross and classic "two-story" Sikorsky H-34 helicopter were featured in the 1964 Richard Widmark, Yul Brynner film "Flight from Ashiya" about the USAF Air Rescue Service.

Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T085x3XhAeE

HU-16A / 16B were USAF
HU-16C / 16D were US Navy
HU-16E was US Coast Guard
The USAF also had a 16E with modified with long wing.

An H-34 was featured in the famous early-Vietnam War Time-Life photo essay "Sudden Death in Vietnam: One Ride With Yankee Papa 13", photographer Larry Burrows, which depicted stages of a disastrous combat mission in which several crew were wounded or killed.


How is it that in the 40th anniversary year of THREADS, we *still* don't know the name of the actor/extra who played the iconic Traffic Warden?



Resurrecting the Cold War: Huge Nuke section in the Sunday NYT Opinion section. The Danger of the President’s Nuclear Powers...



Sole Authority - complete with interactive 15 minute count-down timer to armageddon.


"The most alarming of the intercepts revealed that one of the most senior Russian military commanders was explicitly discussing the logistics of detonating a weapon on the battlefield."....


NY Times or Archived


Theodore F. Koop [1907-1988], creator and first host of Face The Nation and director-designate of the Eisenhower/LBJ/Nixon secret censorship office. He was the longest serving deep state shadow government standby censor: "One of the worst kept secrets in Washington." 1970.




The first annual Bucks County Para-Con in South Eastern PA.




Royal watchers have spotted a potential editing problem and issued a "Kill Notice" on piss poor photoshop skills:



Apparently the AP decided instead of all out kill we'll just crop out the lower hands...but leave in Princess Kate's upside down hand. LOL! NO comment from Kensington Palace.

Looks like their AI image fact checker needs tweaking.

First photo of Princess of Wales since surgery is retracted because image appears manipulated


We scream for more ice cream! Always that third fake hand that apparently this time fooled da media. Emotional (fake) anger intensifies!


I been hearing this is not the first time the royal family has doctored photos.





Saturday night, dance, I like the way you move...



Whigfield (Danish singer Sannie Charlotte Carlson) scored a UK #1 hit with "Saturday Night" in 1994, being the first foreign debuting artist to have done so, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.