Annals of White Privilege, Window Cleaning Women, Nottingham, England 1917
Weekend Open Comments
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I wanna go home
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Mornin’ Gang
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I Wanna Go Home by Sandy Cheeks
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I wanna go home
Still in Canada? Dallas?
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How Google insiders take down a gmail account and then say it was accidental.
From Zach Vorhies.
Tulsi Gabbard’s email account went down right after the Democratic Debate and I believe I can provide assistance on where to focus your discovery efforts because I saw how other accounts, such as Jordan B. Peterson, was taken down. I’m going to recount how this happened to him so as to assist you in your legal discovery process.
Google is comprised of the greatest hypocrites in the history of mankind.
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Still in Canada? Dallas?
Dallass. On the plane. Let’s see if they can get us to Houston without screwing it up.
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American Airlines -
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Dwight wants to go home too.
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On the ground in Houston. What are the chances my luggage made it with me?
I was the nice guy in Toronto when they asked for volunteers to check bags at the gate because it was a full flight. Never again. There was plenty of empty bin space.
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Hamous, you said DallAss, but did you land a DFW or Love Field. I’m guessing that you’re now at Intergalactic instead of Hobby?
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DFW to IAH. And my luggage made it!
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Welcome Home, Hamous.
It’s always comforting for you and your luggage to arrive on the same plane.
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Welcome home, Hammy! World traveler, in good times and in bad.
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Kinda late and kinda lame, but the best I could come up with for now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh994JcEfkI
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1939-1948 AF 850? with sleeper Navajo Freight.
I’ll leave the ID on this to Mark Bridgewater but I am guessing its an AF 850. Let’s see if I’m close.
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Power Line’s Week In Pictures https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/the-week-in-pictures-fredo-edition.php
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Back from the eye doc. I am not having cataract surgery this year. Recheck in 6 months, rinse & repeat.
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Well, the boy headed home for Texas, early this morning. I just got a text and he made it in 9 hours 53 minutes! He was pulling the empty trailer that he brought the Mule over on and I wondered how many time the trailer wheels touched the pavement, on I-10 in Louisiana. It is pretty much a washboard road all the way. 😉
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Sarge didn’t know that I happened to be camping in the same state park. Don’t tell him that his secret is out.
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Did the blog commit Arkansooooeeecide like Epstein?
Guess this guy is conspiracy theorist too.
Having a different opinion than the FIB and the Mr. Potato Head/Sushi Stained Fingers Media is now deemed a conspiracy theory.
The Banana Republic US government.
All the best corruption money can buy.
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Another Deep State dive onto the stage.
No white supremacists anywhere during 8 years of the Kenyan’s illegal run in the White House.
Now they’re everywhere.
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No white supremacists anywhere during 8 years of the Kenyan’s illegal run in the White House.
Now they’re everywhere.
Simply amazing isn’t it?
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Clinton claimed in a July statement that he only took “a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane” in 2002 and 2003, and that Secret Service accompanied him at all times – which Sarnoff told Fox News was a total lie.
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The Ballad of the Omniscient and Omnipresent white supremacist bogeyman.
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Will kicking a dead blog wake it up?
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I’m pretty sure we’re toast.
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Leave it to Earl Pitts to straighten it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSe48ooB2rU
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I want to know why the last 100 YouTube commercials I get on my videos is Shapermint. I mean really?
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#22
Hey, that looks smart, not shameful!
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Sarge didn’t know that I happened to be camping in the same state park. Don’t tell him that his secret is out.
Don’t laugh. I did that once with Elizabeth.
Only way she would consent to got camping
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Sarge
ohhhh little lady comfort. Yup I know bout that with BSue,
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Hmmm, I lost a BF once when he asked me if I wanted to go camping. Well, the truth was I would have enjoyed being out in the great outdoors with this guy, but my honest reply was that camping wasn’t really my thing, but I could be a good sport about it. Nope, he didn’t start talking about add-on ACs in the tent, nor anything else to make it more pleasant to be out in the dirt. We just saw each other less and less till finally we didn’t see each other at all.
But it all worked out ok since I soon moved to Houston and got back together with my first husband, and actually the love of my life.
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It’s intermission at 105 Speedway Squawk, you got time to get here for the features!
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FYI on Candace Owens…
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#38 mharper42
Facebook certainly does stink to high heavens. I can do without it very well.
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Don’t laugh. I did that once with Elizabeth.
/grinning
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Be a fly on the wall of one of the smelly back rooms of the New York Times.
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It’s Sunday! Coffee is brewing and we’re going to have a nice day…Oh, and Sunday is my day off, I’m going to take it easy, it has been a busy week…Oh, and 42!
Mornin’ Gang -
The days are getting noticeably shorter now, it is pitch black outside.
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Through the years and since the first GMC nameplate went on in 1911, there was need to cover the bed in the express body and Canopy Express was born. Here’s a collection of GMC Canopy Express trucks from the teens to the last of the run.
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43 Super Dave
Yeah, it was a little shocking to realize it was already 5:30 this morning and not a sign of any sunlight.
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About Shannon’s #41, that is a scary story, the New York Times, self-reflection on it’s coverage of Trump, and how they needed to try to be more fair? is that the right word? All the while trashing Trump for the good of mankind. Here are but a few of the more telling points;
“What I’m saying is that our readers and some of our staff cheer us when we take on Donald Trump, but they jeer at us when we take on Joe Biden,” New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet told his staff in a town hall on Monday. And,
Baquet, in his remarks, seemed to fault the complaining readers, and the world, for their failure to understand the Times and its duties in the era of Trump. “They sometimes want us to pretend that he was not elected president, but he was elected president,” Baquet said. “And our job is to figure out why, and how, and to hold the administration to account. If you’re independent, that’s what you do.”
More,
When asked a few minutes later about the paper’s historic use of racist to describe segregationist demonstrators in Arkansas in 1957, however, he said, “I don’t think anybody would avoid using the racist in a scene like that.” By the first account, racist wasn’t powerful enough language to describe Trump; by the second, Trump wasn’t bad enough to call racist.The remarks showed Baquet and the other speakers conceding some technical and procedural failings but rejecting, or avoiding, deeper criticisms of the paper’s performance. A staffer, submitting a question anonymously, suggested that the headline that had caused all the trouble—“TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM”—“amplifies without critique the desired narrative of the most powerful figure in the country.”
Lastly,
The closest Baquet came to identifying a moment when the paper had misjudged current events was when he described it as being “a little tiny bit flat-footed” after the Mueller investigation ended. “Our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, ‘Holy s#!t, Bob Mueller is not going to do it,’” Baquet said. “And Donald Trump got a little emboldened politically, I think. Because, you know, for obvious reasons. And I think that the story changed. A lot of the stuff we’re talking about started to emerge like six or seven weeks ago.”If you have the time, please RTWDT!
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I noticed that Peter Fonda died recently. Maybe I was born a little too late to understand the whole “counterculture” thing but I’ve tried to watch Easy Rider a couple of times and found it dull and boring.
I did like that Byrds song, though.
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Morning gang. Hot, dry, and bright sunshine out here again today. 105 degrees yesterday out here in Death Valley. Doesn’t look like it will ever rain again. But the morning and evening shadows are starting to get longer. Football can’t be that far away now (and don’t start with me trying to convince me that NFL wrestling is the same as football). I’m hoping that you all have a great day, and no need to watch the news – I’ll keep you up to date with whatever it is you need to know about. More later.
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Maybe some of you folks down there along the coast could conjure up a harrycaine or something and send it our way. Harrycaines are usually what it takes to break a drought, and it’s about time for one since there is nothing else going on right now anyway. Plus, the weather scare people could add in the likelihood that all the children would be killed since school has already started for bonus points. Oh well, I suppose that when the good Lord is ready for it to rain out here, it will – and not a day sooner. Back to some chores before it gets too much hotter.
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It has been overcast and surprisingly cool all morning but now I see the sun sneaking through the clouds and it will burn off to a hot afternoon.
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Remember folks, all cultures are equal:
While many other nations have either a balanced gender ratio or one that tips in favor of females, India’s population is skewed. As of 2018, there were only 92 females for every 100 males in the country. According to the data, India is home to 63 million fewer women than it should be.
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The Banchara have a centuries-old tradition called “nari mata.” According to this tradition, the oldest daughter of each family is expected to become a sex worker — sometimes as young as 12 years old. -
Black Jack Ketchum is captured in New Mexico
August 17th, 1899On this day in 1899, the criminal career of Thomas Edward (Black Jack) Ketchum ended. Tom and his brother Sam were members of a gang of outlaws that terrorized Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas.
Sam was born on January 4, 1854, in Caldwell County, and Tom was born in San Saba County on October 31, 1863. They were the sons of Green Berry and Temperance Katherine (Wydic) Ketchum and grew up in San Saba, Texas. Their father had been coroner of Christian County, Illinois, before coming to Texas, where he may have been a doctor. His sons were ranch boys of little education. Sam married Louisa J. Greenlee in San Saba on February 4, 1874, according to family records; Tom never married. Tom left Texas about 1890, possibly because of a murder or a train robbery, and went to work for cow outfits in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico. By 1894 Sam had joined him, and the brothers began a career of crime, including killing a merchant near Carrizo, robbing post offices, and holding up stages, trains, and a railroad station. In 1897 they spent a good deal of time across the line in Mexico but stopped two trains in Arizona. On September 3, 1897, they held up the Colorado Southern passenger train near Folsom. In 1898 apparently there was some disagreement in the ranks, and Black Jack was not present when Sam and others again held up the Colorado Southern near Folsom on July 11, 1899. A posse caught up with them; Sam was wounded and captured and died two weeks later in the penitentiary at Santa Fe. Two peace officers and another of the robbers were killed in the battle. Not knowing of the outcome of Sam’s last attempt, Black Jack determined to make one more raid and tried, singlehanded, to hold up the Colorado Southern, again near Folsom, on August 16, 1899. Wounded by the conductor, he was picked up beside the tracks next day. On October 5, 1900, he was sentenced to hang. The sentence was carried out at Clayton on April 26, 1901.
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Slept in this morning, first time since Matsuo’s injuries. He is eating well and being a very good patient. We’ve had cats who probably would have wrecked the house trying to get the plastic cone pried off. Puzzle done, still some coffee in the giant cup, a few more bites of my oat cereal, then I am going to give Matsey a warm sponge bath to get a few spots of dried blood off his white feet and his shaved belly.
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I just went out to do a final sweep-up under the window that got broken. Just as I came out of the garage with the tools I would need, it started raining, so I put the tools in the utility room but otherwise thought I would abandon the project. Noticed 5 mins later it had stopped raining, so I went back out and proceeded to scrape the patio under that window with the hoe, then swept everything up into a dustpan and then into a big heavy plastic seed bag. Now I hope it rains some more.
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I saw Previous Student this morning at church. She’s still anxious about leaving home to attend college, even though it’s still within the city limits. She’s required to live in a dorm the first year, so leaving home is mandatory.
I had put together a book of Wit & Wisdom for her, full of things I’ve learned over the years and quotes from famous folks that I thought would be wise things for her to learn. I’ve included a few funny ones, too. There are a lot of blank pages at the end, for her to add her own thoughts and observations.
I haven’t seen her in a few weeks, but she was at church this morning. Of course, I forgot to bring her book with me. So I’m looking for her graduation party invitation so that I can make sure I drop it off at the right home.
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Hammie
Maybe I was born a little too late to understand the whole “counterculture” thing but I’ve tried to watch Easy Rider a couple of times and found it dull and boring.That is because the counter culture LIFESTYLE was dull and boring. Frankly Easy rider was nothing more than a coming out of the closet movie moving drug use and the hippie lifestyle into the mainstream. Let’s all get stoned and sit and talk about everything we know nothing about.
See how cool we are and you gotta accept us.
A poke in the eye to what was societal norms and society was represented by the “knuckle dragging rednecks” that killed Fonda and Hopper in the end.
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary.
That us what the counter coulture is all about Charlie Brown
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Shannon 41 and Super Dave 46
And to everybody else who happens to read their comments, please read the whole damned thing. Preferably armed with an adult beverage, ’cause you’re gonna need it before you get very far along in it. And read it to the end, for it is a communication from Planet New York Times, the big bubble that dominates the universe as they know it and believe that it is for real. Not.
Big insight into their hive behavior in despising Donald Trump and folks who elected him, their total misunderstanding of the real world that exists outside their precious Noo Yawk, and their pitiful attempts to brainwash the outside world that their fantasies are reality. As in, If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.
As a side note, for anyone who still reads the Chron other than comics, sports, or home section, do notice how many NYT stories they print (without reading first I’ll wager, or the editorial staff might be more selective in what they use). Wonder how much the NYT pays the Chron to print them or if they get them for free. Those NYT stories might be fillers for the Chron, though more and more of them seem to be showing up. Most of them do not at all fit the culture of Texas or Houston.
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The Chronicle isn’t really a newspaper.
It’s published by three drunk Copy & Paste experts and one meth head in a shed in Liberty County.
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Best news at our place today was rain around noontime, a passing shower that came down hard at first and slacked off later, leaving 0.38″ in the gauge. Every drop was welcome and soaked into a very dry ground. Yea, at last. Need 3-4″ more to catch up for the weeks of no rain at all here.
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#59 Shannon
LOL
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the NYT leaked it on purpose.
To display what a Wise, Deliberative, and Crucial institution they are. -
Hubby is laid up with a bum knee today. He was going to work on his car for the upcoming car show, change out the water pump in his truck, and change my oil.
Nope, he’s been groaning in his recliner. Said using the crutches made his knee hurt worse, which means he’s not using them properly, but it is obviously the crutches’ fault. I’ve put ice on his knee, but he couldn’t get comfortable. He finally acquiesced to using a heating pad, which I was going to switch off with cold packs, but he’s refusing the cold now because the heat is easing the pain.
I know better, but he’s not a good patient, so he’ll pay the price tomorrow. At least he’s not writhing in his chair and moaning.
No offense, guys, but I’ve never known a grown man who wasn’t a big baby when he has a serious boo-boo. Even small boo-boos take some real patience on the part of the wife.
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A patently unfair and specious stereotype.
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The counter culture once loathed “the man” and “the establishment.”
Now they are the man, the establishment and Deep State Inc all rolled into one evil and nefarious force whose goal is destruction, dystopia and death.
I liked it better when they were about peace, love, flowers and could at least write a good song
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#64 – Yep I concur Brother
That ‘glittering generality’ aint very shiny for my 2 cents
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Upon reflection, I’ll take my previous statement back:
Hubby has had hot lead drop in his face, taken metal particles in his eyes, sliced off the skin on top of his knuckle (which he then wrapped in paper towels and duck taped so he could go back to work), dealt with serious back issues and extreme pain while going to work every day.
For some reason, this twisted knee has turned him into knots. And heaven help me if he gets a cold.
Hubby can be a stud, but today, not so much. I guess it’s the type of pain.
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🙂
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Maybe Hubby could get one of these for Christmas…
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Something tells me he’d rather have a $1500 in Volkswagen parts.
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#67 Tedtam
How did spouse’s knee injury happen?
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From CFP:
John Solomon: Well, I interviewed Mr. Mifsud’s lawyer the other day, Stefan Rowe, and he told me and also provided me some deposition evidence to both Congress and myself that his client was being directed and long worked with Western intelligence. And he was being directed specifically, he was asked to connect George Papadopoulos to Russia, meaning it was an operation, some form of intelligence operation. That was the lawyer’s own words for this. If that’s the case that means the flash point the started the whole investigation was in fact manufactured from the beginning.
All roads lead to John Brennan.
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I’ve thought Easy Rider had a happy ending.
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Some men are terrible patients when it comes to injuries and so are some women. Her Highness has been very healthy her whole life until recently when, after seeing 10 different physicians, was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia as well as fibromuscular dysplasia.
The symptoms have been chronic facial pains and headaches, sometimes severe. She also has an occasional eyelid droop and trouble focusing in one eye.
As strong and tough as she is, Her Highness has been a difficult and, shall I say, somewhat whiny patient. I’ve been pretty good at being tolerant of her constant complaints. However, this is the first time in her life, at 68, she has encountered chronic pain and is absolutely indignant about having to suffer through it.
I, on the other hand, have been living with chronic pain from multiple herniated discs, several compound bone fractures, tendinitis and wrecked rotator cuffs for almost 40 years. I have learned to live with constant pain. The only time I mention it is when it interferes with something we need to get done around here.
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How did spouse’s knee injury happen?
He’s not sure. He pulled a ligament or sumpin’ about 3-4 months ago. It’s like he woke up and bang! there it was again. He’s got the ice on top of his knee right now.
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I’ve gotten him hooked on old episodes of “Hell’s Kitchen”. He told me he could tolerate one episode, at best. We’re on #4 now. He’s waiting to see who wins the restaurant.
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Surely this will make powerline’s headlines next week.
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#74 – I have a good friend that has been diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, and it’s driving him crazy. He’s been just about everywhere seeking treatment, and for whatever reason, a surgical solution, the last resort, has been ruled out. Last I heard from him he was talking with some quack in China who was claiming to have had good results if you have enough money.
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Old geezers should not be fooling with Christmas lights in August. That never ends well.
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Hey, did someone moderate my misogynistic post earlier today. I went looking for it, but it seems to not be there. In the spit bucket I guess. Well, there was one 4 letter word in there commonly used to relieve gas pain. It wasn’t that important anyway.
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Nothing in the bucket. You musta forgot to hit the Post Comment button. Fart is not a banned word.
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78 El Gordo
We have a good friend in his 60s who developed trigeminal neuralgia several years ago manifesting extremely painful symptoms in his jaw. He went through several rounds of drugs after demanding his neurologist keep trying to come up with a cure. The doctor finally conjured a drug cocktail that cured him and my friend had been pain free for about 18 months. Persistence.
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Hummm, Testing,….Fart?!
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#84 By Jove hambone is right.
Went on a short “Road Trip” today, and ifin’ I have time, I’ll comment about it, but I don’t have time right now, maybe in the morning. -
After the ICE raids in Mississippi chicken processing plants, the state holds a job fair to fill the positions. Over 200 Americans showed up to apply for “jobs Americans just won’t do”. Betcha didn’t hear about that on the nightly news.
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OK, here’s the Saturday Nite Joke on Sunday Nite –
The Saturday Night JokeOnce upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princess,
“Will you marry me?”
The Princess emphatically replied, “No!”
And the Prince lived happily ever after,
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rode motorcycles
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dated thin, long-legged, full-breasted women,
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hunted and fished
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raced cars, and went to titty bars
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dated ladies half his age
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drank whiskey, beer, and Captain Morgan,
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never heard any bitching
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never paid child support or alimony,
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dated cheerleaders
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kept his house and sports memorabilia,
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ate spam, potato chips and beans,
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blew enormous farts,
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never got cheated on while he was at work,
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had lots of dogs
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all his friends and family thought
he was cool as hell,
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had tons of money in the bank,
and…
left the toilet seat up.The End H/T Legally Sufficient
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Now it says it’s awaiting moderation. Maybe it’s the T word that I overlooked the first time around.
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Beotching is what got it flagged.
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Oops, missed that one too. I’ll try to be more careful in the future. Don’t want to get too many demerits.
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A special Peanuts strip from 1968…
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#87 – Ya HAD me until the “tons of money in the bank” 🙂
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