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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.

Saturday, May 8, 2021

SATURDAY #4518

 One Of My Very Own

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

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BOOKSHELF TOY BOX UPDATE

I've finished my list of books. They are not all 100% complete but I'm very close - just a lot of antiquing and detail work.








I really like how there are so many different thicknesses, widths, and lengths.


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Whenever I see someone trying to parallel park I avert my eyes and continue walking giving them the privacy they need because I’m a decent human being.


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AIN'T NATURE GRAND


Cold nosed dog

^^A1^^

That is the top of a mountain. Amazing.

^^A2^^

Rocks are cool.

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This thing flew over my house!

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Mussel Car?

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I'm not the only one to collect Hearts of Stone...

But the artist in me won't let me leave them unadorned.


This next one has an aneurysm.

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Ice Drift

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Those zany anatidaes.

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There's a volatile region on the sun that could potentially produce a huge flare soon.

As I understand it we only have to worry about the flares on or near sun's equator.

^^A10^^

European robin demonstrates 'apparent death' defence mechanism (thanatosis)

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My wife is so bad at sexting, guys will be like “Nice ass” and she’ll be like “Oh, this old thing”?


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SOCIAL CONCERNS

< some serious, some not >


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Downtown London 18 years ago - on 24 April 1993, after Irish terrorists detonated a bomb. 

They never publicly declared why they set it off.

That conflict lasted for generation after generation. You would think they would come up with a Plan B sooner than they did.

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Norman Rockwell Unlike Any Other

A man known for saccharin sweet American paintings did this one of a 1963 murder of three civil rights workers by the KKK.

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"Banklick"?

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Get it?

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I have never succumbed to pressure to change one of my mural designs.

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I'm not really sure what that means but I like it.

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Just because you can does not mean you should.

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Hungarian news channel was talking about school reopening and not everyone is on board.

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I could sit and watch a fire for hours.

^^B18^^

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One time I made my sister's Barbie write a suicide note (to Ken) when I was 7 or 8 and then my mom was like ... “That is so creative” instead of medicating me.


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PROBLEM SOLVERS


Jeeeeez.

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Science fair: "Does your cat's butthole really touch all the surfaces in your home?"

"He ran his experiment by putting a non-toxic lipstick on his cats' anuses . . . and then keeping track of where that lipstick showed up around the house."

[verification needed]

I would have liked to watch him put lipstick on that cat's ass.

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If you don't understand the cleverness of that ask your local teenage boy. But here's a hint:

^^C4^^


A giant QR code made with drones, in Shanghai

I wonder if it would link you someplace is you took a picture of it with your phone. If not it should.

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Wood bending

It's not a log but rather many individual boards.

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There's a Mexican food joke in there some place.

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Why the hell not?

*Days later I saw one of those in a TV commercial filmed on a construction site.

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It looks like he's lying on a luge-like sled.

^^C10^^

Martin Baker Ejection Seat training rig in 1947

That final little kick when he survived.

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Do you think the guy in the red shoes is manipulating the lifting device?

^^C12^^

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9 comments:

David said...

Puzzle-54

Anonymous said...

Puzzle Time: 54

Ralph Henry said...

Please be so kind as to explain how you reached that conclusion.

David said...

1st number x the 4th number
2nd number x the 4th number
3rd number x the 4th number
4th number x the 4th number

MIKE HARRIS said...

re the IRA bomb in London. Of course thousands of rich Americans [who called themselves "Irish" because they once drank a pint of Guiness] financed the IRA who planted these bombs. Thanks very much ...how do you feel about scumbags who attack New York?

Robin said...

Puzzle time:

Missing number is 54.

There are two related sequences of numbers here:

3,9,27 and 81 (the evenly placed numbers) are the powers of 3

So 3(1); 3(2); 3(3) and 3(4) respectively (or if you prefer 3; 3 x 3; 3 x 3 x 3; 3 x 3 x 3 x 3).

The odd spaced numbers (2;6;18; and 54) are arrived at by subtracting the previous power of 3

So 3(1) - 3(0) or 3 - 1 = 2
3(2) - 3(1) or 9 - 3 = 6
3(3) - 3(2) or 27 - 9 = 18
3(4) - 3(3) or 81 - 27 = 54

***Note any number to the power of 0 = 1.

Anonymous said...

Puzzle time = 54

2
3
2x3=6
3x3=9
6x3=18
9x3=27
18x3=54
27x3=81

or

2
3
3*2=6
6+3=9
9*2=18
18+9=27
27*2=54
54+27=81

Ralph Henry said...

Thank you all very much. I know that took a lot of time and we all appreciate it.

Anonymous said...

The Bookshelf Toy Box has been really wonderful to see you pull it together. Bravo!
Raul

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