We were too busy to comment yesterday on the blog's odometer rolling past visit #6,000,000 since we online-officially started not shutting up.
We are never too busy to offer our humble and sincere thanks to one and all who drop by.
(Except for a couple of right bastards who've been spamming old posts lately, which we stomp like the cockroaches they are, in about 0.2 seconds.) The rest of you, however, carry on. Sadly but predictably, there wasn't enough cake for everyone, so we ate it all ourself.
At least half of those visits are mine.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, congrats. I like what you say and how you say it, even if you lay on the snark a little thick from time to time. You absolutely embody the name of your blog. When you get tired of slinging bedp...er, I mean saving lives, you really oughta write a book or screenplay.
Congrats
ReplyDeleteSee, 6 million CAN be a happy number.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, your writing is fantastic (long time lurker, first time commenter.)
Congratulations! I'm NOT HAPPY I didn't get any cake you selfish so and so. ;-))
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Congrats, again.
Nemo
��Congrats and many thanks for your time & thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThumbs up! Lol, not question marks.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations and thanks for your blog.
ReplyDeleteMostly I'm lurking but,I'll pop up when something needs to be said.
Appreciate what you bring to the table.
Congrats and thank you for what you do. I find everything you say interesting and said forthrightly in your inimitably interesting way. I pray that you stay safe and continue another many millions.
ReplyDeleteCongrats and thanks for all the good info not at all tied to acerbic snarkiness or elicitation of rampant douche-baggery from stupid trolls.
ReplyDeleteThat said...don't get cocky and put up a PayPal pay wall.
Also..I was told there'd be cake...I guess I just was..
Congratulations on this milestone & thank you for generously sharing your expertise in many different areas.
ReplyDeleteYour thoroughness with your post's contents and the quality of your remarkable sometimes trenchant writing is deserving of much respect and praise. You may have eaten all the cake but reading a new post is always a treat so I'm fine with that.
Keep rolling Aesop. We love your unguarded commentary and unvarnished opinions.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Keep it coming ...
ReplyDeleteCongrats! And many thanks for the good intel you and your commenters bring to the site. As for your snark.. I love it! Plain language and the resultant clear communication are sorely lacking in the civilian world.
ReplyDeleteSOS " What's for chow? Cake and Cock but they ran out of cake"
ReplyDeleteSincerely Brother, THANK YOU
Semper Fi
Boat Guy
LOL, congrats!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, and thanks for all you do for your readers!
ReplyDeleteBravo!
ReplyDeleteThanks - you do good work
ReplyDeleteRLTW - Lou
Congrats Aesop!
ReplyDeleteAFAIK, TEOTWAWKI, what no cake, dammit!!!
ReplyDeleteCheers Aesop. You're an exceptional human. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteCongrats congrats and thanks hugely for your blog! Tripped across it and have been excerpting and sending around like crazy (with links to your blog, of course!) to my 'it's gonna be another bust, like all the others' family, friends, and neighbors... {eye roll} One neighbor has blocked me...{sigh} (Also to the friend who asked me to help him buy a full set of hazmat gear. {double sigh})
ReplyDeleteMy oft-used hurricane analogy reaches a few, not enough -- but MPAI?
I send, objecting to the drumbeat of "panic panic panic":
Yes, yes, I know.. They're "always" making (too?) much of "the next big pandemic"! If a hurricane is bearing down on the coast where your metaphorical seaside house is sitting... No one KNOWS if it's going to land on your house or spin out to sea or chase up the coast before landing and destroying some other guy's house... Do you board up your windows? Since you don't have a stack of plywood in your garage, do you run out to the big box store or lumberyard and strip the shelves bare? That is NOT panic, that is a reasonable response to a potential destructive event!
Batten down your hatches, PLEASE!!!
Or I answer this usual excuse:
The problem is, I've heard it all before. SARS, MERS, swine flu, bird flu, zika, spanish flu, ebola, and probably more that I forgot about. It sounds like the boy that cried "Wolf!" But is it really the wolf this time?
with: This is legit, normal, human response. However, it's wrong. Analogy: because ONE hurricane skips your seaside house -- do you then blow over every subsequent hurricane?! "The 'weather service' told me it was gonna be a Cat 4-5; but I was fine and it only flooded and damaged one or two towns many miles up the coast; only killed three people. Why should I worry about the NEXT hurricane?"
Human always/naturally lose the "statistically sound" expectation: if you roll a 6 on a single die 7 times in a row; most humans will "expect" higher odds to do it again (or get the reverse). But EVERY SINGLE ROLL has the EXACT same odds. The odds do NOT change because of previous... pandemics! Yes?
One does what one can!
Congratulations Brother a lot of people are hopefully wiser for coming across this blog... Maybe we can do dinner in April again if we aren't all coughing up our lungs...
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, brother; and thanks for "jobs well done", your work is appreciated; although you should consider not holding back and telling us how you really feel about things...
ReplyDeletebe safe, devil dog...
Grandpa
The cake is a lie? If course it is. 😋Bravo for a job well done. Here's to 6 million more.
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