Waco Wacko Taco

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It has been 30 years.

The most recent celebrity visitor to recognize the horrendous event at Waco seems to be a one-man manifestation of it and memorialized here by the Waco Wacko taco: a bent, corny covering stuffed with cheesy topped left-over beefs.

On a serious note, click here for an Analysis: How the Waco siege resonates 30 years later | PBS NewsHour

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  2. The former president’s supporters did not protest en masse last week, but he did score big with a song featuring jailed Jan 6 rioters. Elsewhere, the nation remains glued to the drama at Gwyneth Paltrow’s civil trial in Utah.

  4. pogo, sturge was right about its historical roots (or shall we say toots?)

    From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: Why fart jokes never get old (theconversation.com)

    Every culture in recorded history has had its preferred forms of humor relating to bodily functions, but none have been more reliable in stirring a reaction than fart jokes. In fact, according to British academic and poet Paul MacDonald, the oldest joke in recorded history – which dates back to the Sumerians in 1900 BC – was a fart joke: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
    Fart jokes have also found their way into some of the classics of Western literature. One of the most well-known appears in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In the Miller’s Tale, Nicholas and Absalom are vying for the same girl, and Nicholas decides to humiliate his rival. So he waits at the window for Absalom to beckon the girl. And just when he does, Nicholas’ rear protrudes to “let fly a fart with a noise as great as a clap of thunder, so that Absalom was almost overcome by the force of it.”
    Even the great Bard of Avon himself, William Shakespeare, resorted to a flatulence pun in his play The Comedy of Errors, where Dromio of Ephesus declares, “A man may break a word with you, sir; and words are but wind; Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.”
    Less surprisingly, the irreverent Mark Twain’s spoof entitled 1601 features the flatus. In this imagined conversation between Queen Elizabeth’s court and a few renowned writers, someone among the company passes gas: “In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore.”
    The queen inquires as to the source, and one Lady Alice declares her innocence: “Nay, ‘tis not I yt have broughte forth this rich o’ermastering fog, this fragrant gloom, so pray you seeke ye further.”
    Meanwhile, Jonathan Swift, the author of the classic Gulliver’s Travels, devoted an entire book to the subject with The Benefit of Farting Explained. (Swift published it under the pseudonym “Don Fartinando Puff-Indorst, Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow.”) The title page asserts that the essay was “translated into English at the Request and for the Use of the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-fart-shire” by “Obadiah Fizzle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia.” And an opening poetic ode refers to the flatus as “Cure of cholick, cure of gripes, tuneful drone of lower pipes.”
    Swift then goes on to subject the fart to a detailed analysis – carefully describing its legal, social and scientific dimensions – before concluding that there are multiple species of fart, including “the sonorous and full-toned or rousing fart,” “the double fart,” “the soft fizzing fart,” “the wet fart” and “the sullen wind-bound fart.”
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  5. an illustration from above link and also shown in Wiki”s piece on same subject

    From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: Why fart jokes never get old

    English caricaturist Richard Newton’s 1798 cartoon depicts John Bull farting on the face of King George III. Library of Congress

  7. From Chaucer:  “Miller’s Tale”. 

    This Nicholas anon leet flee a fart, As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,  That with the strook he was almost y-blent; 
     

  10. After some 2am research on the intertubes I came across a several estimates of the crowd size from independent observers at the wacko in Waco event.  The low was 1200, the high was 4000.  Quite a bit different than what the campaign propaganda people were saying.  I looked at a drone shot of the crowd and my estimate is 2000 to 2500.  And, as at the previous year’s events, the cult members showed up for selfies in the vendor field, the first couple minutes of whining, and then left. 

    These events are more of the check the box of “I attended X event, see my selfie” to keep the maga creds.  Because they have heard the songs so many times there is no need to sit on hard bleachers and listen to a small hands grifter anymore. 
     
    Up at 1am, awake until 3:30am.  Did not pay attention to my “throw out after 2-15-23” on the label.  I make my own 1000 Island Dressing.  When you make your own yummies there are no preservatives and it is necessary to throw away.  Ooops.  Much better now.

  12. BB – Word was that the numbers were initially higher, and then many left when Orange Adolf started talking.  They just wanted to say they were there and that they saw him. His warm-up band from Hell had a bigger audience.  If you have drone shots from the beginning and end of his appearance, maybe you can calculate the rate of attrition. Also, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t show up to vote for him, but these are not the looky-loos who will take up arms for him. They still exist, too.

  13. Jamie. 
    News from Scotland
    “Humza Yousaf has been elected the new head of the Scottish National Party by party members” Which btw is the ruling party in Scotland.
    If you are thinking that his name does not sound very Scottish… His father is a Pakistani immigrant and his mother from Kenya. But his speech is 100% British/Scottish politician.
    Jack

  14. BiD
    Maybe that is because half the crowd was vendors, all the interviews and pictures I saw  were from vendor row. They would naturally pack up and leave once sales slowed down.
    Jack

  17. Hah!  Thonder-dent. Sounds like a very odd tasting toothpaste. That’s as funny as a fart in a wetsuit.

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