Friday’s Open Comments
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TGIBF Yall! The freight biz never sleeps and this morning is no exception.
No one will catch me within 5 miles of any shopping mall this weekend! -
No one will catch me within 5 miles of any shopping mall
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In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the ’50s.
“If they can’t identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age,” an official said. -
Never mind the solid republican and federalist arguments in favor of the Electoral College, but the fact that it has now, in the space of less than 20 years, spared the nation both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton in the White House is enough to suggest it is divinely inspired.
-Steven Hayward at Powerline
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Another blues gal on four strings.
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#2 – mea culpa Hammy – I
stander sit to be corrected!! 🙂
My purchase of a nice collared white Levi western shirt a couple of years ago (for BACA court appearances) was my only foray into a mall in DECADES -
#5 – 4 strings and a cigar box guitar body!!
And Lordy SF is good! Turn it UP -
Katfish in a collared shirt?? Didn’t happen without pics.
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#8 – Can’t hardly deny that one 🙂 (Sha-Na-Na can testify how seldom he has seen me in anything but a T-shirt or my leathers)
only 3 times I can recall actually wearing a suit on the last 40 or 50 years:
I gave the eulogy for my dearly departed Pop & Mom (in ’97 & ’02 respectively)
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my er……..uh……………court appearance in Hempstead in ’01 -
and my er uh court appearance
Buwaaahaaaaahaaaahaaa
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#2 AMEN!! I’ve not been to a mall in 20 years!
Mornin’ Gang -
GJT
I saw it with my own eyes.
Talk
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Yeah I have a suit, but it hasn’t fit me since Nolan Ryan and Mike Scott were firing missiles in the Astrodome.
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Might have been a rented tux since then but I don’t recall.
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Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said.
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I have a “wedding and funeral suit” that is only worn for those occasions. Navy blue suit, white or blue shirt, red or grey tie; I must say that I look very good in it.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/17/magic-mushrooms-lifts-severe-depression-in-trial/
A hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms has successfully lifted severe depression in previously untreatable patients.
Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.
A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.
…..They conceded, however, that the use of a placebo control, a crucial component of thorough clinical trials, would be difficult as it would be obvious who was having a hallucinogenic experience and who was not.Heh. You think?
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“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”
– Thomas Sowell
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Shopping malls are efficient places to go when you have a lot of shopping to do, and need to see the items in person. I’m glad I don’t, any more. Plus, it’s been about 15 years since I ventured out for any Black Friday sale. Yeah, I found the exact item I went for, but on realizing it could take an hour to get checked out, I put it back and left the store. Saving a few bucks was not worth it. I had never had that experience before, but I’ve been doing most of my “shopping” online for a very long time. And it’s done early.
Morning, Couchsters. I got up so late today that I’ll probably skip breakfast and just have T-day leftovers for my first meal of the day. -
Malls don’t bother me, but I rarely need to go to one. Last time I was in a mall was Memorial City Dillard’s to buy a new suit earlier this year.
Charcoal grey.
Hotter than Bones in my new suit.
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#20: Not likely
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If I ever had the time, money and space, this would be a real nice project.
https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=YVc3WKjHBIqImQGa6rH4BQ&q=1969+impala+ss&oq=1969+imp&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.1.0l5.3658.8028.0.11181.9.7.0.2.2.0.260.940.0j3j2.5.0….0…1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-hp..2.7.1032.3..41.CRuRzTgxZv0#tbm=isch&q=1967+impala+ss&imgrc=37vgjv-ifZ-8CM%3A
If I had lots of money I would simply commission it to be done the way I wanted. -
Bad link above, the 1967 is the one, not 1969.
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Well, here’s a gloomy prediction that we haven’t seen the last of Bronco, no matter how much we have looked forward to just that.
In conventional politics, Obama is done. There’s no way back into the White House. And Hillary’s fate won’t leave much enthusiasm for nominating the uncharismatic spouse of a charismatic ex-president.
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#20, 21
Ok, we’re going to insist on seeing photos if this rivalry continues.
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Here’s a link that works for Boney’s car fantasy:
https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=YVc3WKjHBIqImQGa6rH4BQ&q=1969+impala+ss&oq=1969+imp&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.1.0l5.3658.8028.0.11181.9.7.0.2.2.0.260.940.0j3j2.5.0….0…1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-hp..2.7.1032.3..41.CRuRzTgxZv0#tbm=isch&q=1967+impala+ss&imgrc=37vgjv-ifZ-8CM%3A -
I saw this headline before, but only just now read the story. Guess I previously thought if people had asthma attacks during or after a storm, it must have been due to hysteria. Here’s the actual cause and effect. Horrifying.
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/thunderstorm-in-australia-sparks-thousands-of-asthma-attacks-and-kills-four-people/ -
Here’s the page/video associated with Boney’s long broken link in #22.
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I finally began working on my latest embroidery project. I have a non-Harpy sister who’s building a new house. I wanted to make her a housewarming gift, so I’m doing a “nameplate” piece of needlework. I had a book of monogram transfer letters, and picked out an alphabet. I cut out the letters I needed, prepared my cloth, and prepared to iron/transfer the letters onto the cloth. I realized that I was lacking the “Z” I needed for her name, so I had to spend several hours creating the lost letter. I don’t have a light box, so I had to tape the letters on the window pane and try to find the pieces I needed from the existing letters and meld them together. I then had to pin punch the outline and use my Pounce ™ (a chalk-filled pad) to get the outline on the cloth.
Then I used my rolling ruler to create a background grid for filling around the letters. I think I know what stiches I’m going to use the for the border. I stayed up late working on the background grid, and got about 85% done.
It’s nice to finally be using some of the notions and gadgets I’ve bought over the years.
I looked at my floss colors, and realize I need to restock on some of the colors I need. I’m going to brave the store later and see if it’s worth it to go inside.
If I hurry, it can be a Christmas present. -
I figure Bones would just run it around his driveway, too.
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Finished the quick shopping forays by 10:30 this morning, both of them at local plant nurseries. Beat the crowds and had a good selection of real evergreen wreaths at one and cute ornaments I’d seen on Wednesday morning when I swooped in at the other and picked up two candy-cane-shaped wreaths only they stock every Christmas season. Parking lots began to fill at both places as I was on the way out.
The only further venture out today will be perhaps to the grocery store and then to dinner, and we don’t expect either of those places to be packed. -
#29: I prolly wouldn’t put more than 10K or so on the clock every year. I figger tires would start getting expensive.
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Innanet is beginning to melt down.
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Couple of images of an Atlas rocket we watched launch on the beach Saturday night
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DATELINE Wisconsin
At Edgewood College, police are investigating a post-it-note that was deemed a “hate crime” by college officials.
The post-it-note says “Suck it up, pussies!” Whoever wrote it also drew a winking, tongue-out smiley face, like this:
;P
The message is evidently one student’s response to the Madison, Wisconsin, college’s overwhelming dejection following Donald Trump’s election to the presidency.
Students had been invited to express their feelings about the election by writing them on post-it-notes and placing them on a designated table. The post-it-note in question appeared in the window of the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion instead, according to Campus Reform.Soooo….I see this story the other day and thought it so ridiculous I didn’t even link to it. But the update has transcended even the absurd.
College officials informed the Madison police, and now the cops are investigating. They are investigating a post-it-note. With a non-threatening message and a smiley face on it. After inviting students to express their feelings via post-it-note.
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Surely we’ve reached peak wussiness. We’re now in the relentless ridicule stage where eventually these idiots will be too ashamed to even open their purty little mouths.
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Now if I was a rich guy, I’d hire an aerial banner to fly around Madison with that message. -
I have a delete request pending, and it looks like it’s messing up the posting #s. Sorry about that. 🙁
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Or maybe I’m the only one who sees an extra unneeded #26?
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#27 M42: Thanks for finding that for which I was trying to link. That is one fine ride.
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#39: I only see 1 #26.
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I o.d.eed on turkey and pie last night.
Ran 3 and 1/2 miles this morning and felt it. A boat anchor lodged in the gut.
But it was worth it.
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One #26 about asthma.
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26 is fixed.
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Purple Baylor abusing the sippers of tea.
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Ok whatever.
I still see my defective #26 which was a broken link to Boney’s car fantasy. The path was toooooooooo long or something, had tooooooooooo many hyphens in it? But if no one else sees it, I’m not going to request deletion again. -
#46 – er………………uh………………..Red Raiders AINT Longhorns dontcha know………………
danged Okies! 🙂 -
Purple Baylor (TCU) beat the sippers of tea like a rented mule.
Actual Baylor (green TCU) is getting abused by Tech. -
Seen in Ace comments.
Hee hee hee.Then there was the drama with my prog sister.
Husband is still having to sleep sitting up in a chair in the family room with his hand raised above his heart (since the surgery). Anyhow, around 12:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving eve, my sister starts sending him crazy texts. She’s ranting about Trump, really, really over-the-top stuff. It was so bad he actually called her because he was worried about her.
She is in full-blown “Trump is going to cause women to be raped, blacks are going to be lynched, and he’s going to round up gays and Muslims.”
Seriously.
He tried talking her down, and she was sobbing uncontrollably. At one point he said, “You keep talking about Trump abusing women, but you never seemed to have a problem with Clinton.” And she screeched, “Oh, I guess you’re going to go *THERE*!” And at that, she hung up on him.
He told me about it yesterday morning, and I couldn’t get it out of my mind all day.
She’s a hot mess. Must be off her bi-polar meds again. -
We were hoping Hammie might bring us a tale of shoving some millennial’s head in the toilet but alas no such luck.
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Holiday television forced me to subscribe today to crtv.
But I guess it takes a while to process the payment. -
The next party with Tedtam is going to be so much fun…
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I forgot to record my daily show today. So I was going to find it online and just watch it on my laptop. Was unable to find it anywhere. Finally got a clue and checked the TV schedule for today. I knew it would not be on Thursday but was surprised it wasn’t on today either. Good day to forget to have everything set up properly. Of course, I’ve now wasted 20 minutes in the fruitless search.
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Old Curt was a black man with white curly hair
When he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care
He used to own an old Dobro … used to play it across his knees
I’d give old Curt my money … he’d play all day for me
https://youtu.be/03TgkCVDlrA?list=FLTLmpWdQx9K4RMmfwmYWkQA -
#36 Texpat
Well, I can’t really be surprised about Edgewood College’s latest foray into madness. It is nominally a Catholic college today; it really was a Catholic institution of education when I graduated from Edgewood Grade School and Edgewood High School in the 50s.
From the newsletters I keep getting I see it is just about totally secular with little involvement by the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa who founded the schools and taught there for decades through the time I was a student there and up into the 70s when the high school began shifting to more lay teachers. Of rueful note, the Nuns on the Bus liberal wacko bit a few years back were Sinsinawa Dominicans. I hope they were renegades but can’t be sure of that given what the Jesuit universities have devolved into.
Most of my classmates are as appalled by the lunatic left turns made by the schools as the nuns have become less and less active participants. We are grateful that the dear dedicated women who taught us have long passed on to their eternal rewards, as they would be outraged at what it has become. These days, I believe many of my classmates, like me, refuse to donate a penny to any of the schools that carry the name Edgewood. At least I gathered that from correspondence with classmates who attended our 50th reunion 7 years ago. Very sad.
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