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Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
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First time for everything – I’ll call firsties.
Off to Galveston Sea Wolf Park to do some wade fishing.
Sure hope the flatties are still around there as well as some
nice red’s. Unfortunately, new Nov 1st. rules say I can only
keep two flounder (like I’ll even catch one!).Great fall weather…
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Good morning Hamsters. Brisk 44 on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond, and it’s wonderful. It’s a nice welcome to November, and we get our purloined hour back tonight so dark descends around 6. Not quite frost on the pumpkins but it will do.
The mares were ready for breakfast and glad to see me. The walk to the barn and down the driveway to fetch the Chron required a light jacket and a rather brisk pace. Invigorating. Thank you, Lord.
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The rooster crossed the road to see what he could see.
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Everybody knows the rooster crossed the road because there was a hen on the other side.
Why else would he risk getting run over ?
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41 degrees out here in the wilds of central Texas, perfect for the first day of deer season (which is a national holiday as far as the locals around here know). Main Street normally will have as many as 4 or 5 cars at the same time during rush hour but has looked more like the Gulf Freeway the past couple of days with pick-up trucks dragging camper trailers, trailers with jeeps and ATV’s, deer feeders, camping supplies and the like. The cooler weather should get the deer moving, and based on my observation, this year should provide a bountiful harvest as spring rains provided for plenty of food and several does threw off twins.
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Either that’s Foghorn Leghorn or that is the smallest road in America.
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In order to not be negative I will just say that in my little fantasy world, all aid would be cut off from Mexico until they admit they were wrong and apologize. Then it would be put to a full congressional vote whether its reinstated.
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I saw Drudge’s headline on a Mexican judge releasing Sgt Tahmooressi when I got home last night. Before I sacked out, I heard on radio news that he was in fact back on the US side. As far as I’m concerned, Bronco’s complete failure to even show any interest in this man is yet another of his scandals and failures.
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Those pink moose flap-bottom PJs are baaaack… in my FB edge ads.
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#7 GJT and #8 mharper42
Agreed on both comments. Thank you Lord for deliverance at last.
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#9
You’ll need to link to what you see for the smart guys that get ZERO ads on their screens. 😀
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Couldn’t find this one yesterday. It is kind of depressing that the 80’s is now retro chic.
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Goat, my son recently bought a 94 Chevy truck as a project. Very depressing realizing it is considered a classic. 1994 was just yesterday.
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Wonder how CFree is enjoying wading in the water. It’s freaking chilly out here. Awesome but chilly.
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More retro 80’s. I guess. I never know what is current.
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Howdy Goat. Any player piano music getting played in your shop yet?
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#12 gtotracker
Umm, try the 50s and 60s. 🙂
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The chicken crossed the road to escape the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie.
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GJT – thanks for inquiring. Not bad at all since we are inside the truck at Sonic. Boyz got a little chilled this morn. Felt pretty warm at 50 deg and 20 mph wind – not! Will try again – maybe.
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The chicken crossed the road in great haste because it saw Bonecrusher coming after it with a cleaver to relieve it of its head in preparation for the stock pot.
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lol CFree, makes my wimpy azz feel better.
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Wonderful morning for some outdoor chores. One of my ongoing projects now that it’s cooler is to pull up invasive asian jasmine that took over a long narrow shrub bed that runs along the far side of our driveway. For a change, I can’t blame my neighbor on that side. He is responsible for the “clumping” bamboo — yeah, right — the grapevine, and possibly the ruellia. But the jasmine was in our yard when we bought the house 19 years ago. It was in the long narrow bed on the other side of the driveway, where I kept it sculpted and edged, lo these many years. See what happens if you take off a year to get a couple of new knees?
The jasmine had gotten into the shrub bed a few other times but I had noticed it and pulled it out immediately. Now it has swamped my pair of Italian cypress and a line of white spirea, and is climbing the fence into that neighbor’s side yard. Heh heh heh.
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A whole 61 at 1:30 out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond and breezy. Great weather indoors or out. Prognostication from the weather service is for 42 here tonight, meaning we’ll be at least a couple of degrees lower than that out in the country. Coming close to having frost on the pumpkins.
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Some of the finest piano Boojie Woojie you will ever hear. Smooth and sweet.
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Re: The OC pic
They only do it to prove to the armadillo’s that it can be done.
Hat tip to Old timer Lin
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When is the best time to discover that you need to replace your heater core? Apparently the first cool morning when you decide it’s time to turn the heater on. Anyway, that’s been my experience today. Fortunately, in old cars like mine it’s a relatively simple task to replace it – now days they tell me you have to drop the tranny in some cars to get to it.
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#16, Bonecrusher. That project hit a problem. My brother is an electrical engineer and wanted that piano for his sons. They were 10 and 12, as I recall, and taking music lessons at the time. He thought rebuilding a piano while they learned to play one would be fun. The week after we unloaded the piano his then wife told him they were getting divorced. Everything is clean and dry but the project is waiting..
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I am sorry for your brother and his kids. Hopefully he will get to spend a lot of time with them and be able to put one or both of them in working order.
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#17, Adee
From what I know of the 20 somethings and the video style on you tube, they are following early MTV. That would be retro to them. I doubt they have ever heard of Carl Perkins or surf guitar. The wife and I walked down the street last Saturday to the Lazy Lizard in San Leon. They had a really good Zydeco band playing. I asked them if they knew Rusty/Doug Kershaw’s Louisiana Man. They never heard of them. How does one get to Zydeco without ever hearing Cajun? -
#29 – Obviously they were faking it. Any authentic Zydeco bank would know about its Cajun roots.
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#29 gtotracker
As you might have surmised, the 50s-70s are the home ground of spouse’s and my contemporary music appreciation, covering our grade school to immediate post grad college years. Fortunately MTV didn’t exist then, as it would have ruined everything I’m sure.
Hmm, the Lazy Lizard is an intriguing name for sure. Presume it features New Orleans and Cajun country music and its descendants. As many times as we have been in NOLA for meetings or visiting friends who live in Covington, we have not succeeded in understanding the lyrics of any of that genre. It all sounds the same to us as does the music. Lively it is but inscrutable to us. However that has to be the Cajun dialect in part.
Years ago spouse had a company meeting in Lafayette, and I went along for the day trip. While he was in the meeting I visited an interactive Cajun/Acadian village somewhat like Colonial Williamsburg. One actor/character was a blacksmith doing housekeeping stuff before the park really opened, and he was talking to a French Canadian visiting from Quebec. They were having a bit of trouble communicating, as the Canadian could not understand Cajun French very well, likely too long since the Acadians left Canada for the French to stay the same. The Cajun could understand him pretty well, and I who was overhearing this encounter could understand the Canadian pretty well and get maybe every 10th word the Cajun spoke. I was then of course much closer to my four years of French in HS and college, but that had been basically Parisian French, once the language of diplomacy.
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#31 Adee: The cajun French is much closer to that which was spoken in france 3-400 years ago than what is spoken in Canada today. I learnt that from a french speaker. It makes sense as I guess the Canadians had more trade and cultural exchange than the back swamp coon azzes.
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#32 Bonecrusher
That would explain the difference, and of course it wasn’t the French of Versailles to begin with. And Cajun English is just about as inscrutable.
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Gilhooley’s
https://plus.google.com/112046871889679183010/about?gl=us&hl=en
Bubba’s Shrimp Palace
There is a connection from this place to Jimmey Walker’s
http://www.bubbasshrimppalace.com/
Top Water Grill.
Outstanding gumbo. Catch it, they will grill it, but you have to clean it.
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Almost forgot. The most recent incarnation of this place. The food is great and the service, so far, a bit better than the last management.
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Love, love, love our doctors! I texted a picture of Hubby’s red, swollen leg and the female part of the team (the almost-should-be a doctor) opened the office for us. Hubby somehow managed to maneuver himself onto the table, despite his pain and inability to bend his right leg. Then she saw his knee – it looked like a bubble. She immediately got on the phone and called the full doc, and he was there in less than ten minutes, scrubs on and ready to go.
Hubby hates needles, so this particularly difficult for him. First he got poked and injected with a painkiller, though the doc told him there was no good way to anesthetize the inside of the knee. Then Hubby had to endure about 3 or 4 more pokes as the doc tried to extract the fluid from under his kneecap. The procedure didn’t look as painful as I’m sure it felt, and Hubby was obviously feeling it. The doc told him to go ahead and scream. They extracted several syringes of fluid, and the last one was pus. Then they went from serious to REALLY serious.
Hubby then had to get IV antibiotics, another shot of antibiotics (and is scheduled to go in for shots for the rest of the week), and is on oral antibiotics. He was given some powerful painkillers to take and a painkiller injection before we left. He was asking for a pill before we got home. I went to get his prescriptions filled, and he’s now had dinner and is sleeping on the couch with his leg elevated.
Hubby was, well, “difficult” when he was told he had to come in for injections all week. He was planning to go to an out of town car show Thursday. The near-doc said “Well, THAT ain’t happening” and Doc said “not only no, but f*** no!”. Hubby didn’t respond to that, but I told his mother that he had to stay in town and get his shots. She was supposed to go with him, so I’m hoping that she puts her foot down and refuses to go. We’ll see. Hubby usually gets all oppositional in the beginning, then relents when the facts have time to soak in.
Those among us that pray, pray that this infection gets beaten down. If it doesn’t heal, the infection could go into his bloodstream and then things get real interesting. And not in a good way.
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TT: Here’s praying that the antibiotics take full and complete effect.
In order to help motivate him, ask him how much it would affect him if he had to lose the leg to save his life from the infection.
Somehow I don’t think the nickname “Peggy” would suit him too well. -
Wow, some of these old advertisements are….risque!
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#38
Yep, I told the doc that Hubby was wissed at him for canceling his car show trip. Doc said that was fine, he could be angry all he wanted. I pointed out that he’d have to be alive to be angry, right?
Those types of conversations were going on while he was just laying there, being poked again. Hopefully, they sank in.
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Oh, and everyone should keep a set of crutches in the house.
‘Cuz you just never know when you’re going to need ’em.
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Take care of that knee and mind the doctor. That sounds serious and could have been disastrous if he had not gone in when he did. Enough of that macho crap, when you have to take care of yourself to keep your limbs and/or stay alive, not much else is important any more. So what if the rats win the rat race.
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#41 Tedtam
Well this is certainly excitement that nobody needs. Wow. What precipitated the infection? Hope your Hubby totally appreciates the quick response the medics gave when they saw the picture of his knee. Blood poisoning is something to avoid at all costs, including but certainly not limited to a car show.
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#37 TT
Sorry your DH has this problem, but I am confidant you can keep him following doctor’s orders until this clears up. Is this a new manifestation of something he had already? I’m sorta vague on it now, but didn’t he have some knee problem maybe 4-5 months ago? If not, and even if so, what infection is this and how did he get it? Hope he is back to normal very quickly. -
Hubby had a similar cellulitis infection exactly 3 months ago – but he waited at least 3 days before allowing me to take a picture and notify the docs. (They again opened the office on a weekend to take care of him.) This time, it was only a day and a half, but I knew to notify them asap, and Hubby didn’t fight me this time.
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The chicken crossed the road because all the ________________ gone on the side he was on.
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1947
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Prayers for his recovery, TT.
I remember well my IV anti biotic every 12 hours ordeal. -
Best of luck to Tedtam’s husband. He better take this seriously because it could kill him.
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Bellville 42 degrees
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Hamous,
Be forewarned that you had better get rid of all that Argon you are hoarding around your house. I’m sure the EPA has SWAT teams ready to knock your door down.
The Obama EPA is outlawing the stuff.
Did you know that Argon, an inert “noble gas” element, one of the basic building blocks of nature, is the fourth most plentiful substance in our atmosphere? It’s true. There’s more Argon in our atmosphere than anything other than molecular Nitrogen and Oxygen, and then Water.
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Argon:
Its hard to imagine a more inoffensive substance than Argon. As a noble gas, Argon is chemically inert – it participates in no chemical reactions whatsoever, except under exotic conditions – there are no known chemical compounds which can survive at room temperature which include Argon. Argon is not a greenhouse gas.
But Argon is incredibly useful to industry – among other things, is used as a “shield” gas. Anyone who welds Aluminium or Stainless Steel will be familiar with Argon, which is used with MIG and TIG welders, to blow oxygen away from the electric welding arc, to prevent oxidative damage to the weld joint.
Any effort to regulate the use of this harmless substance would do incalculable damage to American industrial competitiveness, for no benefit whatsoever.
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#52 TP: From your linkie:
Argon is another noble gas, about as reactive as Helium.
And therin lies the problem, we simply have to do away with the nobility.
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#53 Bones
Heh.I see 2 ways to take your comment. My first take was WE THE PEOPLE need to get rid of the elite rulers who are hectoring us with insane laws and controls. I hope we do that on Tuesday. Take 2 was Bronco & Co. will of course resent any form of nobility and will act to eliminate it by way of the EPA.
Is there a Third Way?
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Good morning Hamsters. Wonderful 43 on the moors of the Brazos at 6 (real sun time at last). Adjusting to this is easier than adjusting to the leap forward in spring.
Texpat #51-52
Have been reading the article and the commentary. Some of the comments on the idiot EPA list are hilariously clever and deliciously snarky as well as devastating. One commenter suggested that Ar was plugged into the list with malice by a seriously annoyed chemist just for spite and to see if anybody caught it. Obviously nobody did. Another suggested that Ar was a typo for As. But then when you have ignorant kindergartners hooked on Gaia running the EPA now, what can you expect?
The ICECAP list of experts contains several who took their degrees at the University of Wisconsin likely during the tenure of the late Dr. Reid Bryson, who is regarded as the father of meteorology. Before he passed away several years ago, he was a staunch foe of the MMGW/AlGorista insanity.
I was fortunate to hear Dr. Bryson lecture for a 6-week segment of the Earth Science course in 1960. He lectured in jeans and t-shirt and was a very witty
and fascinating guy. ‘Twas there we learned of the Medieval Warm Period that set loose the Vikings. Had a few decades head start on that over much of the even well educated public. 🙂 Spouse the physicist had not heard of it until the challengers to the climate change nutters made it generally known within the last few years. -
#54: I think the double entendre is plenty, a triple may just be beyond my capacity.
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I just saw a report that said that in order to alleviate congestion at the polling places this year the Republicans would be voting on Tuesday and the Democrats would be voting on Wednesday. Is this true?
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Yes.
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The Church of Gaia is filled with the most scientifically illiterate buffoons ever to walk the earth. Seventh graders would know more about the chemistry of noble gases…if the “progressive” church leaders hadn’t eliminated science education and promoted their silly theories as fact.
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55 Adee
A couple of years ago, I read of an archaeological discovery in northern Norway where they found a buried small village under the frozen ice pack. The inhabitants were well preserved and the researchers concluded they had been frozen to death by an extreme blizzard since by all indications the current climate at the time had been much warmer. The people were completely unprepared.
The date estimated for this event would have been at the end of the Viking reign and is undeniable proof there was a period when Scandinavians settled far north of where they are today because of more temperate environment.
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MILWAUKEE (Legal Newsline) – Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has accused District Attorney John Chisholm, a fellow Democrat, of “abuse of prosecutorial power” in the relentless criminal investigation of Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and 29 conservative groups.
Clarke’s forceful public criticism is of Chisholm and the so-called “John Doe” investigation that Chisholm has pursued since 2010 against Walker, his staff and virtually every conservative advocacy group in the state.
Clarke, who has been sheriff since 2002 and is running for re-election on Tuesday as the Democratic nominee, has been elected and re-elected with heavy support both from fellow African-Americans and from conservatives.
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Sheriff Clarke made a name for himself this summer when he was a vocal opponent of Bloomberg anti-gun money in the primary.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/08/13/sheriff-david-clarke-defeats-bloombergs-antigun-money-wins-milwaulkee-county-primary-n1878229 -
#61 Texpat
From this and previous articles in which Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is featured it appears that he is a Reagan Democrat and probably now a Tea Party Democrat. Yea for him. He must be one tough cookie.
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I think Fizzwillie’s arm has erectile disfunction.
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Just in case you were wondering why you had to pay $17 for that chuck roast…my sister-in-law sold an 875 lb. steer calf for $1800 this week.
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$2.06 for beef on the hoof, insane just doesn’t get close.
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Here’s the line they’re running with now: Democrats win by losing.
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Well, this is interesting for anybody who buys and uses tools. I love my Milwaukee tools. They just can’t be beat.
According to Milwaukee’s complaint, it introduced the first Lithium, or Li-Ion, hand-held cordless power tool in January 2005.
It claims that before then, most battery-operated hand-held power tools were powered by Nickel-Cadmium, or NiCad, battery packs.
However, the NiCad battery packs couldn’t provide the same level of power as corded, line-voltage power tools. NiCad battery packs of sufficient power were too heavy for commercial use and sale, Milwaukee wrote in its suit.
But its V28 line of Li-Ion powered hand-held tools changed all of that, “revolutionizing” the cordless tool industry, Milwaukee claims.
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SUPERDAVE
Didja avoid tickets?
Didja get a deer? -
65 Shannon
Maybe it’ll help make up for those bleak years in the mid to late 90s when calves were fetching 60 cents a pound.
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I’d like to meet Kevin Williamson some day.
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Went to the quilt show today. Found a Christmas present for grandbaby-to-be. Did a lot of walking. Hubby’s mother took him to the doctor today. His leg color is marginally better, but more swollen. The swelling could be because of the trauma of having needles shoved into the knee. He’s in less pain today, thank goodness, but still elevating it.
If the knee isn’t much better tomorrow, he may get needles in the knee again.
Sucks to be him right about now.
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#72 – did you hear any news about Libby Lehman at the quilt show? I went to school with her, and her husband is an old ball player from back in my day. He’s been pretty discouraged for a while, but occasionally she shows signs of progress, but I haven’t heard anything lately. As to hubby, a few more needles to the knee is nothing compared to what could happen without them, so tell him to man up, suck it up, or whatever. If you fall for that “poor me” line he’ll own you forever. We’re all pulling for him.
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Hubby’s not whining much. He wrinkles his nose at the idea of having his knee painfully savaged by a foreign object again. He has acknowledged that the car show is out, so that’s one less thing I have to worry about. He’s sucking it up just fine. I wouldn’t be happy, either.
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71 Hamous
Kevin is from Lubbock. He’ll probably be home for Thanksgiving if you want to mosey up to the Panhandle.
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The Ms. and I are stuck in the throes of a giggling jag….
We’re watching Tom Brady throw the ball so effortlessly and comparing him to Texans quarterback Fizzwillie.
I stood up in the living room and mocked Fizzwillie’s throwing motion on a long ball. It’s like some cartoon depiction of a baseball pitcher’s sweeping windup.
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By the time Fizzwillie releases the ball the receiver is already sitting on the bench.
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Any game now Fizz will also incorporate Babe Ruth’s pointing gesture into his throwing windup.
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Someone’s gotten into the cooking sherry again.
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Harrumph
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Well at least this time you are accusing people who are actually gourmet cooks.
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Can I safely say this week that the Texans need a QB? 😉
Watched much of the game in rather stunned disbelief that things could go so wrong so fast with the injuries piled up on top of missed calls. If it is correct that Arian Foster has a groin pull, that is not going to be cured overnight. He certainly did his share and then some today. As did JJ and the usual suspects.
Green Bay had the week off so I could watch the Texans without switching back and forth. This recurring nightmare has to stop.
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I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.
-When chemists die, they barium.
-Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
-How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
-I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
-This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore.
-I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.
-I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
-They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.
-PMS jokes aren’t funny. Period.
-Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
-We are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there’s no pop quiz.
-Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?
-When you get a bladder infection urine trouble.
-Broken pencils are pointless.
-I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.
-What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
-England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
-I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
-I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
-I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
-Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
-Velcro, what a rip off!
-A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
-Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!
-The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government’s fault.
-Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too.
-When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
-I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
-Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
-Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
-Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
-Sea captains don’t like crew cuts.
-A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
-A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumour.
-Without geometry, life is pointless.
-When you dream in colour, it’s a pigment of your imagination.
-Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
-A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
-Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.
-What’s the definition of a will? (Come on, it’s a dead giveaway!)
-A backwards poet writes inverse.
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I don’t know about anyone else here but I successfully set my atomic clocks and iPad clock for Daylight Savings time. I enjoyed the extra hour.
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1985 + 1.
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Earlier tonight I took the regal Max outside for his evening constitutional. Nearly straight overhead the three-quarter moon illuminated the fact that the leviathan never sleeps as it sucks the life out of its servants. There was a beautiful chemtrail being created in the moonlight as Max and I watched. In all my years I had never before seen one formed at night.
Sleep well, dears.
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Sounds like the beginning of a Mad Max movie to me.
🙂
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