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PONDERABLES
A system that strives to be "more perfect" must be tweaked from time to time. And a handful of people controlling half the nation's wealth was not what the Founding Fathers intended.
And there are Americans who STILL think we would be safer if everyone was armed.
They know how to build a printer that is efficient and long-lasting but just like they did with the phone screens that broke every time they were dropped they will bilk us until we refuse to take their abuse any longer.
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If you have not seen the documentary on the old tulip market in Amsterdam you need to watch it. The EXACT same thing happened then as is happening now.
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Top Gun: Maverick was a great movie. I highly recommend it.
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I looked over the should of a 5th grader taking a standardized test and read this question:
What is true of all lakes in South Carolina?
A. They are all salt water.
B. None of them have any fish.
C. They are all manmade.
D. All of the above.
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I thought all the answers were wrong until the teacher told me that EVERY lake in South Carolina is manmade.
Starting next year, New Zealand will phase in a near-total tobacco ban.
Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products.
It will mean the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. By 2050, for example, 40-year-olds will be too young to buy cigarettes.
Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, who introduced the bill, said it was a step "towards a smoke-free future".
"Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be NZ$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) better off from not needing to treat the illnesses caused by smoking," Dr. Verrall said.
New Zealand's smoking rate is already at historic lows, with just 8% of adults smoking daily according to government statistics released in November - down from 9.4% last year.
It is hoped that the Smokefree Environments Bill will reduce that number to less than 5% by 2025, with the eventual aim of eliminating the practice altogether.
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I once read that if cigarettes had never existed and were introduced today they would be banned by every country on Earth.
I loved his eggs. Breakfast will never be the same.
Seriously...
And you can't excuse him by saying it was just a mistake or that nobody is perfect because believers claim he speaks directly with God.
On our first date, I took my wife-to-be to the zoo, and at the gate, I asked if she would mind buying her own ticket. She didn't mind so I handed her the 2-for-1 coupon from the newspaper and I got in free.
Why are threesomes only for sex? Why can't I join in a couples' argument if I want to?
WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT
I imagine cavemen gathering it much the same way.
If you are cold, they are cold. Bring them in.
There are no red pixels in that image.
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And this one is dramatic...
Do you think the dots have anything to do with it?
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I just recently discovered an unintentional illusion in one of my paintings.
Let your eye move around the grid and blue blotches will appear in the white area...
But when you try to look at them they disappear.
I look at that every night of my life.
Sup, human?
Sup, sea dog?
I like the one where they hung wires out so it looked like it had already been stolen.
*That is going to look GREAT on his résumé.
Not necessarily in that order.
My old friend juxtaposition...
Is there a rule about how that should be read?
I would venture to suggest that the correct answer is A because otherwise, it requires plurals as in Two Zeroes or Two Fours.
Why periodic inspections are a thing.
Hint, hint, officer.
AIM-9 Loading
I bet most people think there is some complex machine that hoists them into place.
Dive Bubble
Home Improvement
They ought to do that to every abandoned mansion in the world.
I often think about all of you people who pretend to hate the word "moist" for no reason - ruining that word's whole career and for what?
Have you ever seen a friend's ex-wife and realized you can't ever trust them around ugly women again?
ASSUMPTIONS GALORE
Am I to assume they are just slightly different versions of the same thing?
I assume they took a picture out their window and then made it their desktop image.
I assume rising water is not a problem.
Maybe it's easier just to leave the cables and buy more than to clear them out and so they just build up.
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Kind of reminds me of the snakes in Indiana Jones.
Redneck's version of fancy.
I had a scene in one of my novels that had a man narrating a golf tournament on the radio. It went something like this...
"He hit the ball and it goes up, up, up, up, and now down, down, down, down, and now it bounces, bounces, bounces, and rolls, rolls, rolls."
...for two pages.
In the '56 VW convertible I owned in Germany, the cigarette lighter was way over on the passenger side.
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The scariest thing to happen to me in that convertible was the time a girl and I were parking up under the stars. I was smoking as I contemplated my best move then I decided to just maneuver her head over to me and kiss her. She had a beehive hairstyle like this.
Then I settled back and took another puff on my cigarette only to discover that it had no fire. Then I noticed that the back of her head was billowing smoke. I had knocked the fire off inside the girl's hairdo! So, I just grabbed her by the back of her head and kissed her over and over as I more or less pounded her in the back of her skull. And even after all that, she went home with me.
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BTW We used to play a joke-telling game where one guy tells a joke and then the next guy has to tell a joke that employs at least one element of the first joke. For example, if I hear a joke about a monkey fucking a football, I have to tell a joke about a monkey, or a football, or fucking. I was pretty damn good at it because a bartender hears a lot of jokes and my memory is excellent.
I tell you that to explain that I first showed you images and told you a story about a cigarette lighter in my VW. That story led directly to my cigarette setting that girl's hair on fire while sitting in my VW. I segue like that often.
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A British publisher of an American author replaced "pants" with "trousers".
Even I know that when you want to replace one word with another you include the space before the word.
Not to take anything away from his comedic genius, but I always think about the guy sitting in front of a typewriter writing those lines...unless, of course, he was ad-libbing.
Alaska
I'm going to go ahead and assume they are shooting a movie.
How do I teach my body that my fight or flight response is supposed to be for life or death situations not answering the doorbell?
I remember the exact day I discovered that French fries have mashed potatoes inside them.
RULE VIOLATIONS
If the internet has taught me anything it is to NEVER add gasoline to a fire.
Good dog saves little boy from bad dogs
I let my grandson drive my golf cart but I never took my hand off the wheel.
Always cinch down the end caps.
Do. Not. Do. That.
Never kick a ball in the house.
That happens ALL THE TIME! Even I know that and I've never cut down a large tree.
Splash the slide.
Always test it before you turn the camera on.
Trigger discipline can save your life.
NEVER touch the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
For the last time, for the price of one bridge repair, they could have erected hundreds of these...
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4 comments:
C10: that is not a movie. That is the annual car jumping contest.
In case you're wondering, there are no people in the car when it goes over the cliff.
A5: Federal Judge Gabriel Gorenstein, who just let SBF out on bail, is apparently the man who did the same for Bernie Madoff.. because of course he is.....
A2: So you really think that if you outlaw guns the criminals and crazies will follow such a law? I betting that the one that was shot wished he had a gun.
A8: Your toxic masculinity is showing. Maverick was only admirable if he got his pronouns right.
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