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Made it all the way through. Friday, boys and girls. Watch out for the swamp snakes over the weekend. Coffee up y’all. Gonna get frosty for a few days.
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Cure-all:
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Yeah, weatherguessers are teasing locals with suggestions that some might see flurries of snow. Locals get all gaga over the possibility of a dusting of snow that will last about fifteen minutes, at max. Some are looking at driving way up to Javkson on the hopes the snow will stay long enough to touch.
Will someone up there in snow country please send these people a six pack of reality?
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Ice-d tea:
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‘Snow substitute for hot coffee.
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Should say “Your” puns…
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She’ll be here all week folks. Please try the veal, and don’t forget to tip your bartender and waitresses. 😉
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Oh, my, I’ve hit the big time.
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Don’t let the attention wuyi away from the day job.
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I shed a tea-your over reply.
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Apparently I also shed a pronoun.
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Which one?
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Oops, need to try again…
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Hizsef, theysefs, demsefs…amazing how iPad spil chik doesn’t recognize these.
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what the shed does it matter?
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That took me a while.
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Oh… that took me a minute.
Guess I am not ready for the big leagues.
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bigly will come to you after Jan 20
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Wow! A chilled tea.
Thank you, Mary.
Will help with the
little heat wave I’m
currently enjoying. 😉
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Was thinking of making some Dr Pepper ice cream.
Will there be enough time before single digits arrive?
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Just turn up the thermostat and enjoy.
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Sounds like a great idea, I see recipes on the net and I can get Dr Pepper syrup at Amazon. Might try the old Dr Pepper-based BBQ sauce again too if I can find my old recipe.
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What is this? Proper pronouns for gender-fluid millennial?
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Wow, I’m wasted after fighting my way though “the Puns”!!!!! Excellent presentation and use of the language, thank you Mary, Czar…….
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You be velcome, senyour.
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The list comes in handy, doesn’t it? (“Doesn’t ey?” “per”? “ve”? Ae’m confused. )
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You are too kind, Col .
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“Listen here, kiddo….you ain’t got the STUFF to compete on dis here blog”, ST
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Yes, she’s a classic curtsey-er. I posted another cute one of Shirley the other day–just wanted to mix things up a bit today!
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Mary!!! And I thought those were your baby photos’ Mary, Mary, Mary……..
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And Roman Polanski asks: “Does she have an agent?”.
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Press “2” for Spanish
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Tolkein make more sense.
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Then again, he was a professor of language, and not of cis-midget transgender studies.
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We were in GA for our closing, still at the hotel, when we met the local TV crew up from Atlanta to film the snow- apocalypse. 1/2 inch or there abouts closed our little town.
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In Georgia a half inch IS a snow apocalypse.
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Thanks to Weather Channel weatherbis no longer ‘weather’, it’s entertainment.
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I’m cryin’ for y’all.
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Well, it was a very scary 1/2 inch… very.
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Probably caused more wrecks than anywhere up North.
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Tundra!!! Stella has been in your backyard again…..beautiful, but very deadly……so I’ll just sit by the fire and enjoy my coffee……
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Hey! Windchill of 25 here…that’s downright Yankee!
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Air temp 15* wind chill not registering on my digital weather station…..flood stove heating up!!! Coffee is hot, a tad early for adult refreshments, did I hear you say “Chiefs Call”?
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Drizzly wet too, cold and misty rain. No, you misheard, must have been thevwond – thatvwas ‘chef’s call’ and I’m having hot squash soup with a follow-on turkey stew. Too lazy to chew much….even eating soft rolls.
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LOL. You’re cryin’ laughin’ ain’t ya?
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rushing a load of tirechains to Atlanta PEP Boys for you.
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Thanks Tex, most of the swamp snakes up this way are frozen……
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For those of you who like Stefan, this is a really, really good philosophical discussion on Christianity, athiesm, WesternCiv, etc. Well worth watching, or just having on in the background as you do dishes:
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Russian Orthodox Church Christmas Eve
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I don’t even RECOGNIZE much of that. Willing to try a lot, though.
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Surely, you recognize the tea. 😉
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bread
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Sooooooo…you’re saying the Russians hacked Christmas?
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They’ve been at this a long time. Pretty sure they did Easter too!
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Thought my post would get a rise.
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:D. Looks like they feast a lot better than us. Plus, I love their iconography. If I could choose a skill to have, I’d really love to be able to write the icons.
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That’s Eastern European, not necessarily Eastern Orthodox. I remember huge Easter meals at my Polish/Catholic grandparents, gotta look at it as a celebration on a number of levels, especially a celebration in rural subsistence communities of the surviving winter and the return of the planting season. Gotta remember many Eastern European/Russ villages had heavy starvation during the long winters and spring was celebrated long before Christianity arrived.
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If I could choose a skill to have, it would be playing the fiddle. Or the hammered dulcimer.
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If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I’d biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn’t have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.
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Who cares? They brought food…….
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^This.
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Well then, they have my vote.
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I’m giving only one thumb up until I ascertain whether they also have decent booze. Surely, as much as we Catholics have in common with them, aside from a little mutual excommunication tiff, we share this important affection.
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They surely have vodka and a few shots – poof – everything else is puffery.
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Nye, thank you!!!!!!
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Looks delicious! Good morning Nyet 🙂
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ANFSCD…
Trojan Horse. Minus the horse.
European Immigration: Mainly Muslim, Mainly Male, Mainly Young
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9692/european-immigration#.WG8hvm6bEQ4.twitter
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A lesson from history!!! Who would had thought……
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Time for another log…
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Perhaps a hot Dr Pepper
would warm the inners. 😉
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I’d like to see that glass melt…
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I was going to mention hot Dr Pepper, it’s an old Southern drink, but thought it of little interest. As long as we’re at it some of us drink Coke for breakfast and drink warm Coke. Ditto Arrah-C cola.
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the Dr. Pepper needs a squeeze of lemon juice when hot.
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A nice shot of Southern Comfort works too.
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Impeach!!!! Had to rise early, to do some plowing……current temp is 20*, wind chill 10*, winds WNW at 15. Snow accumulation 3-4 inches. Back home now, keeping the fire burning……..coffee is hot…….
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Impeach, cold cold cold here!!!!!!!
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Would seem you have lots of company.
https://weather.com/maps/ustemperaturemap
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Temp is 25 here, wind chill down to 17. C’mon. Thought yesterday was cold, nyet.
Rains coming in tonight, should warm it back up
Feel for you all out over there, I have nothing to complain about.
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We are at – 1° 😕
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This is a good book for winter reading:
Based, very thoroughly, on a true story, that of the H.M.S. Terror, and the Erebus, but with some fictional horror thrown in.
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Sorry ’bout that. Bigly.
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I’ve had his books recommended to me on several occassions, but I’ve never read any. I used to read his blog/newsletter, which I quite enjoyed. I’m not a big fan of the horror genre, and I listened to a friend and his dad discuss the Hyperion books once.
I love SF, but they didn’t really seem to interest me much.
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If you understand SF as meaning “Speculative Fiction”, it gets better.
Dan Simmons is incredible. That book is more historical fiction than anything, and he did his research — and if you read it it will make you understand Really Really Cold.
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The story takes place about 600 miles north of Michigan.
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I have to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius for the Mrs. so that’s the only reason I’m paying attention to the temperature. We dress in layers up here since you never know what it’s going to do. When it’s cold here, it means it’s clear skies and no rain. The barometer on the wall seems to indicate no change in the next 18-20 hours at least.
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And don’t forget to adjust for elevation……..sea level and every 500 meters you ascend….. then ground wind, lower wind flow, higher wind flow, and crosswinds…..air temperature at different levels…. higher you go the thinner the air becomes… too much higher math for me!!!!
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I don’t have to adjust much…after years of living 3 feet below sea level I now live 125 feet above. Probably accounts for all of the nose bleeds.
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something about being in the weatherman’s crosshairs or another….
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January 6th–Epiphany:
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I have one small wooden Nativity set that my grandchildren played with this year. Like everyone else, I arrange the figures in a panoramic display. After my four year old granddaughter left a few days ago I noticed that she had every figure, even the animals, arranged in a circle around baby Jesus. It made me smile. And think how right she is.
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Yes.
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For a long time I had a tiny dog figure that was a toy, like an itty bitty 1″ figure that I found in a closet in my Grandpa’s house. I always imagined my dad or his brothers playing with it… This little dog is always at the foot of the manger, a friend and guard… and I have a dolphin figure, leaping, and an elephant and a turtle, all beautiful porcelain, all God’s creatures….
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Reminds of a detail in Madeleine L’Engle’s The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas. A lovely Christmas book, BTW, for those who collect them.
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My friend actually knew Madeleine L’Engle years ago… small world… They worked together..sort of. I read a “Wrinkle in Time” hmmmm..
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She wrote some good books for adults, too.
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amwick….that was ONE CROWDED and very animal diversified group …. wonder what the sheep thought about the elephant? would not want to have the job of mucking the manger after the ceremony.
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It was a big crowded…they took up the entire top of my buffet cabinet.
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Sweet.
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From an article at Catholic Exucation Resource Center.
St. Matthew recorded that the Magi brought three gifts, each also having a prophetic meaning: gold, the gift for a king; frankincense, the gift for a priest; and myrrh — a burial ointment, a gift for one who would die. St. Irenaeus (d. 202) in his Adversus haereses offered the following interpretation for the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh respectively: King, God and Suffering Redeemer as well as virtue, prayer and suffering.
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It’s a really good article for Epiphany.
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/the-magi.html
Wish I could get to mass today to hear We Three Kings.
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Thank Ou very much!
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Ouch.
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No worries, Menagerie. “Ou” is probably on the list up there ^^^ somewhere.
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Oui!
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This version really emphasizes the dirge-like quality of this carol. I hadn’t thought of it that way before.
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The word “stately”, as in a regal procession, is the word that has always come to my mind in regards to this carol. But “dirge” is definitely appropriate to the verse about the third gift…
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I never thought of this redition as a dirge as much as I did representitive of the long and arduous journey the Wine Men took.
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at the risk of appearing non-spiritual….I have to confess…that as a dog lover and animal rescue person who has had to deal with a lot of sick dogs over time….every time I see an old icon of baby Jesus with the halo deal on top of the Head, I think about those big lampshade like dog medical collars they have to wear after surgery….sorry to offend..but my mind drifts a lot….my brain is high tech now and is located somewhere in The Cloud.
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‘Halos’, of one form or another, are not unique to Christianity, they go back long before Christian artists started using them, I don’t think anyone in the designated halo group will be offended…unless there’s a Greek god or so with real ego issues.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Oh yes!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Good Morning Figments! Friday before the storm here.
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Mornin’ Amwick!
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waves 🙂
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!! Snow on the roof, wood stove is Hot!!! I’m predicting a nap this afternoon……..
Dress warmly on the flight line, torquing those engine mounts bolts…..just remember turn right to tightened, turn left to loosen……..
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Local weather babe who served in AF Reserve made a few comments on that Buff engine drop yesterday…….all positive comments for the crew in response to in flight emergency.
I would still be washing my flight suit out…….pass along my best to the air crew for an exceptional display of airmanship…….well done, well done!!!!
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Roger thst but ya gotta remember that the Buff can maintain its place with just two engine sets (I thought unloaded they could maintain with one though not sure), they were overbuilt but then consider their job.
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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where is Miley?
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Dire news about Mexico. Good post next door, and a couple of articles from Judicial Watch. I’ll work on a post for later.
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Real eye opener.
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I did read Sundance’s summation. From my limited exposure to micro and macro, we are in deep, deep, kimchi. Even with the Billions of drug money flowing in/out it’s still a mess. Think of Revolution (armed) in our time south of the border……. also renegotiating NAFT, that would be the nail, the trigger, to set this situation on fire……
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And, according to Judicial Watch, there is big time corruption at DHS – taking bribes to cover illegal immigration and drug running.
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That is shocking. :eyeroll:
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Beautiful breakfast Nyet! Morning!
Happy Friday everyone! Counting down the days until Trump is in office! Can hardly wait!!!! 😊
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Morning Nyet,
Excellent presentation, thank you. Russian rye to boot!
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Looks great! Thanks, Nyet!
Morning everyone!
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Nye!!!! Morning Everyone!!!! Mid morning snack!!!! Thank you Nye, and a Merry Christmas Eve to you and Natasha……..
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Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Wait. First we get a bountiful Russian meal then a full American breakfast? Glory days. Thanks Nyet 🙂
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Morning Stella, all,
Been about a year now that for me, this fantastic ride on the Trump train began. And what a glorious year it has been. What set him apart from the others is his honest and unrehearsed responses to the challenges brought to him daily. No fear in him. Straight shooter. Probably for most here as well.
Also why I like this Place. Although there is time for play, the no bs set forth by the people here is pleasing, along with the small, quirky community who come by daily.
Enjoy your days y’all, so much fun yet to be had.
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🙂
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Well said, derk!
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Great post!!!!
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Nyet
Morning Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Thanks Ms.WeeWeed, for the reminder, I’ll check with Nye!!!!!
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You remember a few months ago when our nyet was traveling? California he said. Hmmm.
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Heh heh heh
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That’s awesome.
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With you here, we ought to be plenty safe from hackers! 😀
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I don’t know about that.
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Da.
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“Nyet”.
“Good night, Gracie.”
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Big day here at the cottage. Dh and I are going to the boat show. We almost bought a boat, but we chickened out. The boat money went into our GA cabin, much needed work on the driveway. Still I have hope!
or not!
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I would accept this little boat if it was gifted to me with a lifetime supply of whatever fuel it runs on, along with a full crew, paid for.
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And enough money for taxes and docking fees…….
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Yes, total upkeep. Oh, and maid service.
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Yachting’s Hidden Costs
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2011/09/13/yachtings-hidden-costs/#7fd9258e79f8
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Precisely why I said I wanted it covered. 🙂
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Yeah, the “maid” service is the most important part of any boating. It seems to be the primary reason for boating in general, really…
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Interior crew = maid service.
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OK. Oh, and a masseuse And, a cook. No, a chef.
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uber masseuse and sous chef.
semper ubi sub ubi…..always wear underwear.
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Check with Lurch on the docking fees. I heared he can get ya’z a pretty good deal. 😝
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Another expense, bike racks.
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I’d just like my personal cabin reserved.
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Certainly!
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Can I invite the good sheriff 🙂 ?
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Of course……………..and his wife, too.
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She is from all accounts a real sweetie. Lovely lady 🙂
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We’ll invite Dr. Carson and his wife, too. I love him, but I think I love his wife more. I would love to be best friends with her. I saw her on FOX and FRIENDS the first time she was on and absolutely fell in love with her. She is so funny and so sweet. Yes, they must come, too.
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Plus we could snatch liberals at different ports and the good doc could perform lobotomies while you are chatting with the Mrs. 🙂
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😯 Hadn’t thought of that. 😯
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How could he do a lobotomy on somebody that ain’t got no brains to begin with?
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Well I had not thought that far ahead 😐
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As Rush would say:
Hubba, hubba!
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Every married man and woman has that bucket list.
That Fabio or that Buttercup… On a horse, in slow motion, in…
🙂
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Hey, wait,,, it’s my fantasy!! errrr I mean it’s my boat! 🙂
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No, we are going sailing on my boat. Your boat is in the slip over there. 🙂 But, you can go with us if you want. I’m sure there is room.
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TY… and there will be tea and Jameson and bacon…
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Yummies.
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See, that is what is confusing. That is actually Amwick’s boat. Mine is a little smaller.
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Oh, I see, you thought THIS was your boat. No, yours is larger, fancier, and more beautifully decorated inside. Mine just looks similar to your. 🙂
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I think mine is an older model.
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Meet your boat…
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GOP House passes bill to undo last-minute Obama regulations
Or Obama and his Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency gets schlonged
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-house-passes-bill-to-undo-last-minute-obama-regulations/
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I had just seen that obama had signed 146 new regulations in the last month or so. LOL This reverses that. 🙂
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Gee, it’s amazing that they are now doing something.
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ANd I still don’t trust them one red percent.
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I don’t trust them either. You can’t shine a slime ball no matter how hard you try.
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President Obama Brickhouse I’ve Even Got My Own Wall
http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/06/president-obama-dc-house-brick-wall/
President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump … he’s building himself a wall.
We got photos of construction at Obama’s soon-to-be D.C. rental. You also see construction in the garage. As we reported, it will become an office with a bathroom.
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Well, there goes the neighborhood.
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Yep, when the liberals move in it goes to hell. Oh, wait…DC. Never mind.
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Hey remember now who lives 2 blocks away????? Go ahead and take a guess….no not the Beast, …….
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Ummmm…Frosty?
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Evening Stella!!! Great picture!!!! Did somebody check the building permits, codes, variances, additions add on the property…… how about the work crews, are these guys US citizens???? Not in DC….. oh that’s right Obama is renting!!!
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Good evening, Colonel!
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So, to recap.
In the last 9 years, I learned to: Epoxy grout. Crank out dishes like John Henry cranks out stone. Paint 4 businesses’ interiors. Pressure wash a couple, and the decks. Remediate basement flood damage four times, 50 gallons each time. Prime and paint the exteriors of two. Epoxy paint (with sprinkles!) the basements of two. Fix every sort of faucet, pipe, and toilet in all four. Cater like a mo-fo, and all the myriad work that implies, from plating to back-end cleanup. Prep every sort of vegetable and soup and gravy recipe. Tear out huge drop ceilings, and the insulation above them, and all the grids and hanger wires. Work on scaffold to clean iron trusses for painting.
Be on call for 9 years, because I live next to the joint. (One of four.)
I got paid $10. An. Hour.
I tell new kids that their job is to make the boss profit and to minimize his losses.
I should also have told them work as hard as me, and you’ll get paid as much as me.
They get paid $10 to start. And be on Facebook and txting half the day. Without a single thought to whether they should be cleaning baseboards or floor drains or getting the FOH ladies some freakin’ ice.
How could I not quit?
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Doormat no more, and I gained some skills.
Christmas bonus this year, after 9 years, was a 25 dollar Meijer gift card.
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Adding insult to injury…
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Hey, it paid for one of my two new winter boots.
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I had a vision of where you could store that boot while awaiting its companion.
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I just now got that.
Wrecked ’em!? Damn near killed ’em!
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LOL, that never gets old!
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So, you are busy job hunting??? Hope it is moving along!!
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I’ll be gainfully employed by next week. Just been taking a much-needed break.
Nobody in town doesn’t know how hard I work, and they all know I work harder for the business than most of their slackers.
I’ll keep ya’s posted.
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In this town, businesses are employee-hunting. And they know me.
Call it a vacation. I’ve had two in 7 years. Unpaid.
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I knew you would be working… good for you!
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Today’s the first day of the Mardi Gras season, Twelfth Night or as the now more secular and diverse city government calls it ‘King’s Day’. It was officially kicked off by the mayor, at the head of a slickly dancing Zulu group, looking for all the world as if he had a stick surgically implanted you-know-where and was wearing starched pants, trying to look comfortable as he led the parade.
Tonite the Phunny Phorty Phellows will parade by drunkenly riding street cars down their usual routes, officialy marking the start of the city’s yearlong booze fest.
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I saw the Slickly Dancing Zulus open for Michael Flatley in ’92.
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It was Riverdance meets Wadidance.
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Could have been ’96. That whole ethnic dancing era is just a blur, now.
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Thank you, Joshua, for that trip down memory lane.
You must have been psyched when cinematography was invented.
Especially hot off of the invention of the automobile.
😀
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E = MCsquared….except in space.
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That someone filmed you doing this must be an honor.
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{{joshua}}
Kidding, young man.
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the film went plagueal…viral had not been invented yet.
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Why I come here. Right there.
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You gotta see the POtuS’s reaction to the Chicago kidnapping/torture of that disabled white guy…did he excuse the kidnapper’s actions as merely a reaction to cultural grievances?
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I don’t give enough about his opinion to subject myself to his whining. Gotta fight your battles and fighting my nausea, despair, and rage when I watch him ain’t on my list ever again.
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Exactly. Fingernails on a chalkboard are a delightful alternative. Or a root canal without anesthesia. Or poking both eyes out with a sharp stick. Or driving red-hot spikes under my fingernails. Or …
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You must throw some interesting parties….
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Well, well, now we know how to really get the goat of the BLM jerks. Just attach the BLM name to every crime that is perpetrated.
“RACISM: Shaun King Says He ‘Won’t Fight For Justice’ For Disabled White Teen Tortured In Chicago”
“Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King decided he was more upset that the brutal kidnapping and torture of a mentally disabled white man by four young black men and women was labeled on Twitter as #BLMKidnapping than the crime itself:”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/12166/racism-shaun-king-says-he-wont-fight-justice-hank-berrien?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=070516-news-title&utm_campaign=lead
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I absolutely LOVE me some Shaun King!
He got Trump elected!
I hope we get more people like him.
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LOL Yes, you are right.
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The other King….
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I like this guy! When he digs himself in deeper he brings his own shovel.
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I respect initiative.
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So do I, I will even chip in to help buy more shovels.
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It’s snowing, and off I go to work. Debating whether I should pack a bottle instead of a sandwich.
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Watch out for the crazies!
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She should be OK with just the one bottle. The crazies are mostly after the second one.
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Nah, we prefer cans. 25 oz.
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Take both.
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Pack two bottles. One Jack, one you can break and use as a makeshift knife.
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Boy Scouts.
Be Prepared.™
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You’re in rare form today, Taqiy! It’s nice having you around more often. Maybe you can get an office job and a pen and a phone and can post online all day about the stupid lazy millenials.
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Thank you, Cetera. I needed this “vacay”. As it were.
God forbid I get a job where I’m not busting my hump.
I cannot imagine. I don’t work = I don’t eat.
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You are so dedicated! I’m thinking that calling in sick would be reasonable. Or calling in a fake bomb threat to shut the place down…oh wait, that’s probably illegal or something…
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Or at least that’s what they said the last couple of times, eh?
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B!!! You did not share that y’all had 6 (count ’em!) 6! Darwin nominees up there!
http://theseattletribune.com/6-dead-after-truck-collides-with-anti-trump-protesters-on-freeway/
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I’ve never heard of the Seattle Tribune, and there have been no news stories regarding protesters on the freeway.
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Hah! That’s what they all say…..
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They also say this….
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I think they were just trying to get our hopes up. I am surprised more folks aren’t run over.
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Re: Shaun King, xis black eminance.
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine Occupy Wall Street. Forever.” — Alt Universe Orwell
Imagine conservatives winning every election henceforth.
So yeah, we need more Shaun Kings. Bring them.
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(He’s actually white, but that don’t matter. He’s DOWN. And his fist is UP.)
King is like the anti-Michael Jackson.
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NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FM9F6ChszQ
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That’s Shaun, right there, Gene Wilder.
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Great album. Every track.
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Shaun King made me think of his double, Gene Wilder.
Made me think of this album Wilder Mind by Mumford & Sons.
My mind. It does this.
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For years I’ve racked my brain trying to think of Gene Wilder’s name.
Now I have a mnemonic device. Wilder Mind.
Even a day ago I was (without using my internet) like “WTF!!!?? It’s on the TIP OF MY TONGUE!”
Gene Wilder. His name was Gene Wilder.
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Mnemonic devices rock. I have been trying to remember this dude’s name since a few years before he even died. “That guy from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! That guy who acted with Richard Pryor so many times! I know his name. SAY IT! Flippin SAY IT! I can’t! I can’t remember his name!”
Now I can. Wilder Mind. He sure had one.
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It is snowing and 21 degrees in Dallas Tx right now…..people jumping off tall buildings downtown…millennials who have never seen the white stuff think it is a message from space aliens.
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Years ago a friend of mine moved from Michigan to Houston. The first winter she was there, they had snow. She said she would stay at work until everybody else got home; it was too dangerous otherwise.
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I remember one rare year in Dallas of freezing rain, and then snow on streets…no salt or plows, or course…but the locals put TIRE CHAINS on the cars…sounded like a battalion of Tiger Tanks coming at you….until someone hit their brakes, and of course skidded and took out everything in their pathway…..we wanted to hold a contest Dallas vs Atlanta over who was the stupider about driving in snow.
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I’d vote Atlanta! The Interstate speed limit is 55mph. Nobody goes slower than 80. They think they need to go even faster to get home because they have to go to the store and buy all the milk, bread, and booze so they don’t starve. They fight in the store over said food and drink. The snow melts next day… It’s supposed to be 60 degrees next Wednesday.
I live in a rural area, so our road doesn’t get plowed! It’s was plowed once in 20 years! The snow never stays long enough.
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don’t eat the yellow snow.
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Truth. In Houston, everyone’s vehicle is dented. It’s like they “feel” their way around town. At 80 or 85 mph.
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They need whiskers.
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LOL Remember curb feelers? They were essentially whiskers.
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I mentioned curb feeler back next door a few years ago and very few kbew what I was talking about. Gone along that hi-lo beam can on the floorboard by the clutch, manual chokes, that rope on the back of the front seats for back seat passengers to use in getting out…oh, and those deep cloth pockets on the backs of the front seats. Sun visors that stuck out from the top of the windshield?
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“…manual chokes…”
I had a ’73 Mazda RX-2 that had both manual choke and throttle. You’d pull both and the car would inch forward. That sheet metal box could fly!
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We have four cars ranging from a ’97 through a 2016 and all have manual trannies. (I’ll pause here for the inevitable jokes…………………………..)
We had to have the dealer go and pick up the ’16 manual Ford about 100 miles away as it was the closest one, no one drives a manual any more. I figure that if I get carjacked I’ll have time to draw, clean, reload and aim….probably go out and get a burger too…while the skel tries to lurch away from the scene of his downfall. Woulda gotta manual pickup truck to but they are almost nonexistent.
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In 1988 we had to order a Jeep Cherokee with a manual transmission. My husband wanted it, and he also said he wasn’t going to let it u kids not learn to drive one, and they would be starting to drive a couple years after we got the jeep.
My dad bought and sold used cars all the time as a little side money, so he always had at least five or six cars and trucks. I begged to learn on an automatic. He looked at me and said “If you can’t drive a straight shift, you can’t drive.”
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Yep, I remember it well.
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Your post reminded me of one of my favorite songs 🙂
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It reminds me of this:
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I learned to drive in a big ‘ol Oldsmobile station wagon that had the gear-shift on the steering column. My Mom figured if I could drive that, I could drive anything! Lol.
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I learned to drive in a giant Lincoln Continental but it was an automatic. Good memories.
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I learned in a VW bug. I was terrible until I had to drive it to work. Every day I had to stop in the turn lane to make a left. I killed the engine every time. Then, I had to turn the key completely off and on again to start it. I sat at that turn every day for two weeks crying before I could make the turn until I finally got it right. Then, I loved to drive that car.
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looked good on a 1953 Buick Roadmaster…..today, folks think curb feelers are perverts on the street corner at the bus stop.
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Try living on College Station Texas with all those college kids in cars that their parents bought, pay the insurance for and suffer the repercussions for if any damage is caused by them. It was like a demolition derby.
Once a girl sitting at a red light in front of me suddenly hit the gas and rear ended the car sitting in front of her. I asked the girl who was hit if she would like me to stick around to be a witness. She laughed and said no its was no big deal.
So I left. But not before the idiot who hit the girl in front of her asked me if I had run into her 🙄.
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They renamed “Uber” in Houston to “Oops!”
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Younshould see New Orleans. Every decade or so we get an ice storm where the roads get icy and stay so during daylight hours. You remember that Benny Hill cop chase video of a day or so ago? Multiply that by about 100 miles of road. Only thing funnier is watching locals trying to drive up one of the many icy bridges or on-ramps, priceless.
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Checked with my son, snow’s a bit late in his area, it’s being catered.
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2 Good videos here. i couldn’t find them on YouTube, couldn’t embed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4095726/Victim-Chicago-race-torture-asking-friend-idolized-black-gang-charged-beating-burning-chanting-f-Trump-f-white-people.html
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It’s the Daily Mail. Best actual Newspaper online.
So of course it contains the actual video. I didn’t watch it. I don’t need to. I’ve read the whole Christian/Newsom testimonies and autopsies.
It also contains a press conference with the victim’s brother-in-law.
Hurts just to watch that, but he handled himself like a Christian.
So it’s amazing to watch.
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The Chicago 4 all denied bail 👍🏽
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-06/judge-denies-bail-facebook-four-who-tortured-white-chicago-teen
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Good!
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Go back, watch the press conference I linked above in the DM article.
It’s the victim’s brother-in-law speaking with the press.
Hallelujah that the press is even bothering to notice this.
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I would donate a large roll of big rope for their trial.
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It’s official
‘It is over’: Congress certifies Trump’s win,
over last-ditch Dem objections
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/06/dems-try-to-contest-trump-victory-on-house-floor.html
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Photobucket isn’t working for me today, but the picture of Sheila Jackass Lee was priceless. She even had one ‘o them green squirt-flowers on her lapel…….
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And a safety pin, I’m sure.
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I thought that was Brittany Covington 😎
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Fishies. Crunchy fishies. Nom noms.
:searches frantically for One Ring:
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http://mechtild.livejournal.com/68540.html
Great summary.
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Here we go the Chicago 4 were all on the path to Sainthood.
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2017/A-judge-rebuked-four-black-people-accused-of-beating-a-mentally-disabled-white-man-and-broadcasting-the-attack-on-Facebook/id-7474fef837284608be0aa6cd5a92b698
Defense attorneys portrayed the suspects as hardworking, responsible and religious. Cooper, for example, takes care of his twin brother, who is in a wheelchair. Tanishia Covington has two small children. Her sister attends college and has a job. Hill, the judge was told, goes to church with his grandmother.
All four have experienced brushes with the law, some for serious and violent crimes.
The victim Austin Hilbourn is schizophrenic. That is a little different than being mentally disabled or slow, these savages could have caused this poor kid to have a psychotic break.
I haven’t watched the video of the abuse.
I hope all 4 of them are incarcerated for the rest of their natural lives.
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God, I love the internet.
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TV weatherman is warning that our major danger tonite is black ice…I’m more inclined to think it might be black vice.
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The victim is someone I would get along with, just fine.
He could be any number of friends of mine, who are all hated by society. They bum cigarettes, and coffee, and quarters. I got their back.
I love them because who else is gonna? And because I was loved first. That’s one of the many reasons this story hits close to home. Not because I’m white. Or a Trump supporter. But because I know many in this poor guy’s station, and was there myself for years, and “…there, but for the Grace of God, go I…”
I hang out with that guy. We play video games, listen to a lot of music.
I see this story, and I can empathize, because what if it were my schizo friend?
He knows I love him, though. A cigarette per day for 9 years is nothing.
I tell him stories like this, he calls me a racist. Man, oh, man.
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send them to ISIS for a trial and penalty….tattoo a cross on them and a burning picture of a Koran too. Small cartoon of Muhammud on their foreheads.
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Since when is breeding and having a relative who has a job a ticket to sainthood? Who dug a ditch lowered the bar?
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Since 4 black adults kidnaped and tortured a schizophrenic young man ?
I feel like this is a trick question.
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Trick appears to be trying to find ANYTHING in these miscreants’ lives to say in their defense.
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I agree.
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Just because I am in a really dangerous, bad mood,,, I just read that Michael Brown’s parents are plaintiffs in a civil suit claiming damages as compensation for all the money he would have earned(in his lifetime) and supported them with… Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…… I better go… grrrrrrrrrrrrr…
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Quit growling. That news is almost two weeks old.
Besides, his lifetime earnings as a heavy would have been negligible.
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If “I can choke a nyukka for some ‘Rillos” is all you got on your resume?
Your earnings are prolly less than those of a pro dishwasher.
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Yeah but they have to turn over Frowny Brown’s medical records and their own medical records 👍🏽 I believe the gig is close to be up on this kind of nonsense.
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😯
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So my friend has a daughter who is a bit tightly wound about the food her children consume. No refined sugars, no dyes, nothing processed, if it says “organic” it must be good good good 🙄 !
Anyhow her 3 year old daughter started daycare and she came home and told her mom that it was someones birthday and that the mother brought purple cupcakes with sprinkles for the whole class! The little girl went on and on about how terrible it was to give little kids cupcakes with purple dye in them and sprinkles! A regular mini version of her mom.
The little girl was so passionate about the horrors of this mom bringing purple cupcakes with sprinkles that her mother asked her ”Well did you say anything honey?”
The daughter responded “No, I ate two to be polite” 😄
Bravo for a moment of having a real childhood!
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LOL
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All my friends are vegans, take it slow…
Please don’t eat, anything that “moo”s.
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Yeah.
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One more tonight.
Recording and engineering genius. Lyrically sweet like a honey packet.
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