FRIDAY #4797

 One Of My Very Own

I now think it should have read "4:38pm".

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LANGUAGE FOR ALL OCCASIONS

What does that mean?

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Not with that attitude.

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Asians.

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*Phrasing.

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"Titty."

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Mixed messaging.

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I like to put a tray of snacks on my Roomba and pretend I have a small idiot butler.

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ALL THINGS RALPH

If you don't want to be compared to Nazis then stop acting like Nazis.

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How very depressing.

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My friend in London takes a visual nails-on-a-blackboard like that and fixes them.

And I thank him for it.

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When I had been married but a few months I dismantled an old trunk like this...

And all of the metal hardware was rusted and I needed to soak it in naval jelly. I had no containers so I used the bathtub. I learned a very valuable lesson about being married when I told my wife she couldn't take a bath that night.

I still have that trunk.

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Today on a detour due to one of the very long trains that plague our downtown area I came upon a house that I very much wanted to buy 50 years ago. The property came with that outbuilding that used to be a community store - a perfect studio. 

I still think about that.

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I ran across a collection of photos of people doing things very dangerously.

But mixed in with the seriously dangerous were images that I thought not dangerous at all.

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And included was this perfect use of two ladder jacks and a walk board.

I've used that exact setup a thousand times.

However, I put mine on the inside of the ladders so I didn't have to crawl up and over the walk board.

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When I first got married the first time the only thing we had to cook with was an electric popcorn popper. We cooked soup, scrambled eggs, fried bacon, etc, in that device.

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I wish I still had the wherewithal to put little treasures like this all over my city.

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Schindler’s actual List

As a kid, I had the opportunity to meet a holocaust survivor who showed us her number tattoo. One of the main things she told us was to tell their story.

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I'm confused. That icon means that the sound is not coming out. I opted for the crossed-out microphone because the sound was not going out. I may have fucked up but it seems to me that one means you can't speak and the other means you can't hear.

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I've asked my daughter to have my grandson read to me like this during our next Zoom meeting. That way I can see the words and pictures as he reads.

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I found this old picture of my bride and me.

That's back when I used to get fucked regularly.

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I accidentally said "big" instead of "grande" while ordering coffee at Starbucks and they took me behind the store and shot me in the leg.

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IT TAKES ALL KINDS

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One daughter.

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I would find wheels.

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Boy, that fooled me.

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Indeed.

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Bible-wielding weed-smoking Asian Jesus is unprankable.

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Hollywood

Another example of American Exceptionalism?

But there are solutions...

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If I owned a Beaver I would name it Clint - Clint Eatswood.

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WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT

I wonder why more organisms didn't use that same system.

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Could that be true?

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And it looks sewn off.

That seems to happen more than I would have thought...

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Had I been the building inspector I would not allow such an eyesore.

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Solar panels are being built over canals in India to slow evaporation.

I will repeat my oft-stated idea:

Instead of building a conventional roof and then placing solar panels atop it why not incorporate all elements of a roof and solar panel into interlocking units?

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Red carpet, Gregory Orekhov

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How very wonderful.

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I think those men are in training for piloting tankers. I could imagine the controls being sluggish to mimic the actual larger boats.

Anybody?

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Every day we stray farther from Flavortown.

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Unleash the Quacken!

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18th Century French chair made for reading.

Notice the candle holder.

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Going Hog Wild

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Serious Commercial Cooking

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