Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

A Satirical View of the Stock Exchange (1785) in Aquatint print by Francis Jukes.


The caption reads:
"An historical emblematical, patriotical, and political print representing the English balloon or national debt in the year 1782 with a full view of the Stock Exchange and its supporters the financiers, bulls, bears, brokers, lame ducks, and others, and a proportional ball of gold the specific size of all the money we have to pay it with supposing that to be twenty millions of pounds sterling, the gold and silver trees entwined with serpents and upheld by dragons for the pleasure of Pluto & all his bosom friends."
- London, Publish'd as the Act Directs, by W. Phelps, July 1, 1785 - Yale Center for British Art


June 13, 1984: the Leander-class frigate HMS Jupiter collided and became wedged under London Bridge after the captain had declined to use available tugs to help navigate the currents of the Thames. The accident resulted in significant damage to both the ship and the landmark.



The ship's captain, Commander Colin Hamilton, was later court martialled at Portsmouth on December 4, 1984. Hamilton was severely reprimanded. Ship was sold for scrap in 1997.


Imagine if everyone had a nuclear bomb. Your own personal security blanket, a nuclear football. The ultimate brinkmanship. Everyone would be so terrified all the time, even more so than now. Crime would go down or else. The future would look much brighter encased in fear like a diamond. (sarc)

June 13, 1986: Marshall Brickman's THE MANHATTAN PROJECT was released.






Military Times


Oh sure, this will help boost recruiting...


Washington Free Beacon

Feelin nonplussed yet. I'll wager there is none of that crap to be seen in the Pentagon or DC.



"We control events better when when we control opinion."






Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Open The Door, See What You Find




The art of Ralph McQuarrie, born June 13, 1929.




Thursday words...
Twitter is the lodestone for every walk & crawling of life imaginable, and then some. Horrors & delights beyond your wildest dreams or nightmares. In other wordly news, Florida is experiencing a lot of nimbuses lately.





'Nonplussed' means "perplexed," but since the mid-20th century, 'nonplussed' has increasingly been used to mean “unimpressed” or “unsurprised,” and this use, though often considered an error, has made the confident deployment of this word a fraught issue for many. (According to Merriam-Webster)