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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.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

TUESDAY #5221

One Of My Very Own

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EMAIL: 

ralh.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

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FUN WITH LANGUAGE


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I live in a college town and some bands rehearse in storage units. 

Visual artists also rent them. I drove over to visit one such artist and the back row was like a small village. It was a fun place. But think about it - you rent a studio with electricity for $30 a month.

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It would be cool if after you died you could see the top five times you almost died.

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If anyone ever texts you "We need to talk" text them back with "Yes we certainly do" so that they feel stressed also.

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OBJECTS OF INTEREST


Evolutionarily brilliant. When swatted, it just rolls away.

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That looks like me trying to open some of those sealed packaging.

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"Hot".

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And that is how there is ice on some planets and moons.

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So, I guess the keys are hooked up to a laser printer or some such?

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"Say good morning to Grandpa, kids."

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I'm not sure that I know exactly what's going on in that photograph.

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The passage of Venus 1874

One of the pre-film moving pictures, this captured the planet Venus as it crossed in front of the Sun.  When Jules Janssen took these photographic plates even photography was still new, what's more, incredible is that this is suspected to be a practice shot on a model; the evidence is certainly incomplete and very low resolution but the authors of the paper (Launay, F. & Hingley, P. D.) have a strong argument. 

https://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2005JHA....36...57L/0000070.000.html (paper)

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ (astrophysics data system)

https://archive.org/details/1874PierreJulesCsarJanssenPassageDeVenus.webm.360p (archive.org where this and many other pieces of history are being stored but maybe soon lost as corporate greed sues them, I've given them some money, hope others do as well)

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Steel Mill

Can we assume something went wrong?

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The Birds

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Does anyone know which page of the Bible explains how to turn water into wine?

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Your nipples are older than your teeth.

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ADMIRABLE HUMAN BEHAVIOR


My wife does stuff like that.

When I was growing up I could get two cents for every glass bottle I took to the store. We spent a lot of time combing the sides of the roads.

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I hate cutting grass and haven't done it in 40 years.

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Is that tent transparent?

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I lived in a town with crosswalks like that. Periodically all lights would turn red and all pedestrians crossed the street any way they wanted. Then the people stopped and the cars moved. It cut pedestrian/car incidents to near zero. Anyway, I had an affair with a young woman whose grandfather invented that whole system.

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I still don't understand why very hot water does that better than tepid water.

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While stationed on Goose Bay AFB we had an aluminum box built onto the window to use as a freezer.

At 46 below zero, the stuff froze before the window was closed.

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Do you think he meant to do that?

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Door Dash - Ukraine Style

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Fashion Designer

I taught a delightful gay child and when I asked him what he did for fun he said enthusiastically, "Redecorate my room!" He is now CEO of Five Queers Interiors in NYC.

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I am reminded that English is a flawed language every time I am forced to use "that that" in a sentence.

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I've tried gentle parenting. But there is no way to say "Leave me alone I'm pooping" without a bit of rage coming through.

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LESS THAN ADMIRABLE 

HUMAN BEHAVIOR


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I've seen many similar scenes in horror movies.

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I bet he ended up with sand in every orifice in his body.

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*MNBT

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Another "look before you leap" illustrated.

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Martial Arts

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Toddler Jail

Never forget that you are not only bigger than they are, you are smarter than they are. My kids once acted up on the way to eat out and I warned them if it didn't stop I would turn the car around. It didn't stop so instead of eating out I took them home and made them a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I never had to do that again.

But allow me to tell you of my shining parental achievement. I decided to give my daughters $7 a week allowance that they were to use to buy pencils and such for school. Any leftover money was to be saved to upgrade their wardrobe. When it came time to dispense the next allowance I gave one $5.50 and the other $6.00. When they complained I explained that I charged 50¢ to take their shoes to their room, put their Coke can in the trash, etc. After that I would just ask, "Would you like me to take your shoes to your room?" and the answer was always, "No, I will do it myself."

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Want to have fun? Ask a believer to describe everything they think heaven will be like.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

D-3
And that is why cavemen drug the women by the hair.
If they drug them by their feet they would fill up with dirt.

Inchworm said...

C5 many tents have a mesh top, and then you can stretch a rain fly over the outside of the supporting frame to provide rainproofing, if you desire. This keeps condensation from breathing, etc from accumulating on the interior of the tent.

Anonymous said...

C-7
I had a classmate when I was in college. He was blind from birth. His girlfriend helped him around campus, took notes and so on.
When he graduated he got a standing ovation.

Anonymous said...

guy falling off into the bowling alley had it coming if you ask me lol

Anonymous said...

C11
💢: yes, the motorcycle rider clearly intended that stylized flip. Take another look-see, you'll notice just as he goes into the modified flip he engages the kickstand, so the bike wouldn't fall (to stabilize it).

🕳️ He has legitimate skills!

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