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Kramp Feeds Emu and Real Milwaukee

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The weekend is approaching, as it's already Thursday, December 5, 2019. It's also National Comfort Food Day (mine's ice cream; what's yours?), as well as National Blue Jeans Day, a day I observe year round. In Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Poland and the UK, it's Saint Nicholas' Eve, but in Austria it's Krampusnacht, when the horrible hornéd beast Krampus comes out and whips children who have been bad, as in this early 20th-century greeting card. Look at those horns and that tongue! Could it be. . . . .SATAN? (Note that "Satan" and "Santa" are anagrams.)

There remain 20 shopping days until the beginning of Coynezaa.

Duck report: We stopped feeding the ducks cold turkey (and yes, cold duck) two days ago. As we hoped, fewer of them have started coming to the pond.  There was just one mallard yesterday morning, but then about a dozen flew in for lunch and stayed all day. They did not get fed.

It breaks my heart to do this to them, but I think it's the right thing. I can't bear to walk by the pond, though, as they'll all swim up to me expecting food. But we simply can't have ducks hanging around a frozen pond all winter, keeping them alive by giving them commercial duck chow. Can you imagine how many hens we'd have nesting here next spring? All I can do now is peek around the corner at the pond and hope they don't see me. (I can count them from my office window.)

Stuff that happened on December 5 include the following:

  • 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
  • 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
  • 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

That's the amendment that repealed Prohibition, a bad social experiment if ever there was one.

  • 1952 – Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.

Here's a 3-minute video showing the Great Smog:

  • 1955 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • 1964 – Lloyd J. Old discovered the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
  • 2017 – The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Notables born on this day include:

  • 1782 – Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
  • 1830 – Christina Rossetti, English poet and author (d. 1894)
  • 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
  • 1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (d. 1951)
  • 1901 – Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1966)
  • 1901 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
  • 1912 – Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1965)

Here's Sonny Boy blowing some; I don't know the date. He seems to be missing quite a few teeth; I wonder if that helped his playing:

  • 1932 – Little Richard, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
  • 1935 – Calvin Trillin, American novelist, humorist, and journalist

Trillin was a great food writer, and still contributes occasionally toThe New Yorker. His first food book,American Fried, is a classic, and funny as hell.

Those who fell asleep on December 5 include five artists or musicians and a gutsy but empathic leader:

  • 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
  • 1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
  • 1926 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
  • 2012 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
  • 2013 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili has become very vain again. But you have to admit that she's quite fetching:

A: What are you doing?

Hili: I'm going in for the art of being beautiful.

In Polish:

Ja: Co robisz?
Hili: Uprawiam sztukę bycia piękną.

And in nearby Wlocawek, the ineffably cute (and healed!) Mietek asks if his staff has any issues with him parking himself on the dining-room table:

Mietek: I'm just lying here, any problems?

In Polish: Leżę sobie, jakiś problem?

As of January 1, sales of recreational marijuana will be legal in Illinois. Will we see the same for catnip? This is from reader Merilee:

Emus always seem excited to me, but this one is off the map.

Five tweets from Matthew. Down on Marsh farm, the animals get a special treat: apples and carrots! And have a look at the door decoration.

Here's a nice new article which includes a zoomable plot showing the phylogenetic relationships among nearly six thousand species of mammals. This is the first of eight tweets in Upham's thread:

Lynxes are awesome and don't get near the attention they deserve. Look at these lovely beasts!

I always wondered if a jet could land on a carrier in complete darkness. Apparently they can, with the use of instruments. Matthew himself retweeted the proof:

Sound up on this one: a touching story of a girl's devotion to her cow, and then her grandcow.

Three tweets from Heather Hastie.  Octopuses are wicked smart, but how did this one know which way to turn the lid?

There's no doubt what this cat's gesture means, even though I love having cats lick my fingers with their sandpaper tongues.

https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1201230014580232192

I'm wondering if this is real. "Democracy dies in darkness." Is that a WaPo motto?

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Source: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2019/12/05/thursday-hili-dialogue-and-mietek-monologue/

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