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I'm an artist, educator, militant anti-theist , and I write. I gamble on just about anything. And I like beer...but I love my wife. This blog contains observations from a funny old man who gets pissed off every once in a while.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

WEDNESDAY #3310

One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

SAM COOKE - BRING YOUR SWEET LOVING

It's Wednesday.







IMAGES THAT SHOULD GIVE YOU PAUSE

Comet 67P / Churyumov rendered next to a city to show the true scale.
That is extraordinarily horrifying. And to think we (you and me) paid for a robot visitor to that thing...albeit kaput.
Looks kind of like the top of a femur.

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Y'all kiss and make up now.

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There are neighborhoods in America where this happens all the damn time, and it's a damn shame. The battle zones are called slums and they are the reason we Americans look like a bunch of murderers to the rest of the world. If you subtracted the gang deaths then the US is about as peaceful as any other country.

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This reminds me of a story.
I had a huge van when I was commissioned to paint a mural in Falmouth, Kentucky. Once a got there two other commissions arose after I was long past ready to go home. So I did what I always do when I don't want to do somethin, I raised my price to the point of embarrassment, yet they were still funded. The last one was on the back of the hardware/appliance store, and I gave him a hefty quote in dollars, then added, "And two-thousand dollars in trade." He accepted. Well, I got a lawn mower, a chest freezer, and all kinds of tools, the bulk of which had no hope of fitting in my van. So I strapped the scaffold, all the ladders and the walk boards on the top, then loaded the freezer first. Then I filled the freezer full of other shit. Finally wedging in cargo on the passenger floor and seat and the drivers side was so tight I had to sit on the left side.
I cashed all the checks (I rule of mine) and hid thousands of dollars in $100s under the driver's side rubber mat - the kind that I had to unscrew the trim to get up. I called my wife and told her if there was an accident to not let them destroy the van.

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Why?
I'm thinking they ordered one panel with a mirror to go - say - on the end for grooming. Then this was the last panel they brought in and the installers say, Fuck It, and put it there.

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Potters do this all the damn time.
I once made a casting of one of my calf-high boots, then made clay pots out of it, and I dropped that whole fucking shelf from about 10 feet.

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This is unforgivable.
And the proper way to hang landscaped, by the way, is to have the horizons all at 5' 6" - The average height of human eyes.

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Look carefully.
That's enough to keep me from buying the house.

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I would hate the human proximity of strangers.

This would leave me having a screaming running fit to flee for solitude.

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I think he is meant to be seen putting an empty on the shelf, thus knocking the last one off.

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Talk about your odd juxaposition...

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I bet this worked just fine until the house next door was built.

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That just makes me sad.

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Look at that long enough to see why I thought it rather humorous.

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Stupid bastards. 
#1- He is now an attempted murderer.
#2- He's lucky he didn't set himself on fire. See the liquid coming out of the UNCORKED bottle?

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That's just somebody at the factory fucking with you.


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The heart is judged not by how much you love, but how you are loved by others.
- Wizard of Oz

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A WHOLE BUNCH OF AWESOMENESS

Momma doesn't trust that guy and is too polite not to rip his throat out.

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Ball centered while quarterback is screaming instructions, then the reverse run, then the pass to the quarterback. I bet you can only get away with that once a season.

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Fucking amazing.

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Sonic Boom
The most awesome thing about the jet engine is that once started it wants to run and something catastrophic has to happen to get it to stop.

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The Halitrephes Maasi jellyfish

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The moment a dad found out his son made the USA Olympic Hockey team.

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Trier (red outline) is the oldest city of Germany.
For three years I lived in Bitburg - top of the map. Everything to the left of the gray line is Luxemburg. Our two most frequented haunts were in Trier and Echternach. 
This is the "Porta Nigra" or better called the Black Gate. When I was there they were still allowing vehicle traffic to go through it.
It was one of the 4 City Gates that protected the city in its Roman time and was build 180 A.D. so it survived almost 2000 Years of Wind and Weather. It is also protected by the UNESCO and the Haager Convention.
Along all the walls of the two arches were deep gouges where countless rearview mirrors scraped.

This is the Römerbrücke so "Roman Bridge" and exist for over 2000 Years now, first build out of wood around 18 B.C. and later on 45 A.D. finally build out of stone and is still sitting in place.

My buddy and I, in my VW convertible were crossing that bridge going home when we saw two drop dead gorgeous blond campers going into the city. We got to the other side, pulled a U-turn and went back to ask them if they needed a ride. They did. We took them to our favorite bar and things were going famously when a tour bus FROM THEIR TOWN in Sweden pulled up and we were forgotten among their reminiscing.

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This came to me with them having no idea why this would be advantageous.
It is used to insure your hole is drilled at 90 degrees.

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Oh, my.


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I wonder if I've ever bought milk from the same cow twice.

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DISCUSSION STARTERS

I don't believe that, but the country's obcession with fake internet points it could just possibly be true.

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During a world war you need all the friends you can get.

I imagine job #1 for our southern neighbors was apprehending spies who otherwise could have very easily sneaked into the states.

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This man will go down in history as the man who may have done more to change the century than any other man.
And most people don't even know his name.

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I saw this guy in a movie last night and it occurred to me that that beard may very well be his own and not fake.
I like that guy's acting, but his being married to the same woman for decades makes me respect him even more.

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The all powerful god makes the angels. A few went bad. He let them go so that they could ruin the humans he made in his own image; because he loves us.
Seriously, who writes scenarios like that?

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Tales from North Korea: A defector's story


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Lions, tigers and bears may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform circus tricks.

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LANGUAGE

One of the categories in my blog record is the search keywords that led people to FO. Here are a few.

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I so do like clever people.

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Fat shaming can get you into trouble, so don't do it.

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3 comments:

Suppe said...

I love you for actually caring enough to use ö and ü in Römerbrücke!

Fardygardy said...

The bearded actor is Kurt Russell, who is in a long term relationship with Goldie Hawn (30+years?), is not married. They have been in a loving relationship without marriage all this time, and that perhaps makes it even more amazing, for Hollywood.

Aside: Kurt Russell's family is from a remote Maine town where I grew up. When I was very young, I went to an auction and managed to buy a full box of records for $1.00. Turns out they were all one-sided 78 rpm. Also turns out they were all the same song -a number sung by Kurt Russells's grandmother. We were kids - we used them for target practice until they were no more.

Ralph Henry said...

Well, I've been loved for less.

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