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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.

Thursday, August 31, 2023

THURSDAY #5363

One Of My Very Own

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ON CURRENT EVENTS


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Haters will not win. We have come too far to go back now.

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WARNING: This is very intense.

Bodycam Footage Shows Gunman Firing on Fargo Police Officers

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Maybe 1950s Jello dishes were actually a sublimated expression of female rage.

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We thought our ability to love made us human, but it turns out it was our ability to select each image containing a boat.


OBJECTS YOU DON'T 

SEE EVERY DAY


It seems like it would distract drivers.

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Did you notice the wave pattern around the island?
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I once watched a video clip of children traversing a structure like that twice a day to get to and from school.
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If anyone is looking for a novelty gift for someone you only sort of like...

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Uh...no.

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ART AND THE ARTY


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NATURE'S ODDITIES


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When caught in an ambush your only option is to attack.

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Life is just choosing your Subway sandwich when you are 9 and ordering the same one until you die.

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You know that feeling when your wife says, "Listen to this" and it's a song telling you about how you ain't.


DISCUSSABLES


"I Drove Over 100 Miles With All Of My Keys Sitting Right Here. Karma Was Definitely On My Side."

Not to nitpick, but how did he drive anywhere without his keys?

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I drove all over town with a can of beer on my back bumper and only noticed it when I got home.
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While working on my latest box, I had to drill holes in some metal. I'm not being an idiot, so I got out my heavy gloves – then I forgot to put them on. I am now suffering with metal fragments embedded in the tips of my fingers. Now I'm wondering if any metal fragments would result in using that tool to open that can.
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I really admire people who solve problems creatively.
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A television news reporter asked me what the hardest part of my job was and I told him that each mural was trying very hard to make me look stupid and I had to work very hard not to let it win.

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It's the thought that counts.

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I am a big fan of using humor to make one's point.
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It looks like the swing is in jail.

For years the PE teacher at my school forbade the installation of swings because they were too dangerous. He was concerned that children would walk behind another swinging child and get clobbered. My argument in favor of swings was that they teach children how to be careful around moving objects in a way that produces minimum damage.

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I'm going to brag again about how well I'll sleep. I credit most of it with my decision to simply stop thinking about the embarrassing moments in my life.
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A guy said he got this with his change...

I have examined each of the thousands of dollar bills I have used in my artwork – mostly looking for star dollars, but I have never come across a serial number that I thought was truly unique.
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It might be time to think about what we are going to do when 1/2 of us have no job because they are being done by robots.
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"For A Month, I Thought I Lost My Wedding Ring On A cross-country road Trip. I Gave Up Ever Seeing It Again When We Realized It Was Under My Husband's Deodorant."

And on the same day, I found this - the guy's wedding ring was lodged in the top hole.

I used to misplace tools in my studio all the time. I wasted a lot of time looking for things that were in the wrong place. All of that changed when I organized my studio for an interview by an NBC News crew. And once I got it highly organized I never went back to my sloppy ways.

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As a highly trained visual person, it annoys me when I cannot identify the oddity in images like the one above.
Does anyone see anything peculiar?
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When I was a teenager I ate two big potatoes every night. In the winter, I would wrap them in aluminum foil and cook them in the embers in the fireplace. As for using a baked potato as a hotdog bun - I'M IN!
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He should be exceedingly proud of that. I, on the other hand, am not much of a perfectionist.
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How core memories are formed...

Is this the same kid?
I call them peak experiences instead of core memories and I have talked to many grown people who remember every detail of helping me with the mural when they were young children. I was once eating breakfast in a restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina when a young woman came up to my table and asked if I was the muralist. She remembered painting a mural with me 20 years prior.
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Help me understand something. It seems that health insurance companies would want to provide all medications for their clients to keep them healthy and reduce the insurance company's liability - an ounce of prevention as it were. Also, it behooves them to keep their policyholders alive to maintain the cash flow.

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I live by trial and error but mostly error - a shit ton of error.

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Thank God the internet didn't exist when I was growing up.


PEOPLE DOING THINGS 

I CAN'T OR WON'T DO


Whatever she did don't you do it.
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So many women spend an inordinate amount of time on their hair.

Meanwhile, men are like...

In all fairness, many men are absolutely obsessed with eliminating baldness.

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I would try that – after a half bottle of Jack Daniels.
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She must really hate the class she was scheduled for.
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And if he gets tired of it he just grows his hair out.
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Watch carefully...

"Hey bro, can you call me and tell me something happened so I could get out of this bad date I'm on?" 

"Dude, I can even do you better."

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*MNBT

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Think legal charges.



 



16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Puzzle time: RICO LAW

BTW - yougins won't get that puzzle. That commercial predates cable TV.

Bubba

Anonymous said...

C12: The oddity you are looking for is the worms.
Easiest one to see is the empty space in bottom left.

Anonymous said...

C14: Unfortunately, the guy mis-measured by 1/2 "

Look at the bottom of the board he coped.

Bubba

Anonymous said...

C14 - It would bother me that the straight edge of the top piece doesn't (at present) align with the straight edge of the lower piece, though I suppose we could be seeing this before that is planed level.

Robin.

NonMAGA said...

^^C12^^
IF he eats another brown one, it will be similar to the "Piper Perri surrounded" meme that you post regularly

Anonymous said...

^^A8^^
The police killing that poor man counts as police violence according to that site you posted the other day.

Even funnier was the press briefing on this Fargo shooting, with the woke press asking if it was really necessary to shoot the poor man so many times. I mean fucking really, they care more about the POSS syrian political asylee than the civilian and police officers he shot.

Anonymous said...

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Why are the securing bolts sticking out the top?

Probably for easy visual inspection of the nuts.

Anonymous said...

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Talk about moving the goalposts...

Anonymous said...

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Maybe it's one of those keys you don't need to physically insert as it's proximity based.

Or his car keys are not part of that key bundle. That could be his business keys.

Tip:
Don't have a heavy bundle of keys attached to your car key, the weight wears out the ignition barrel.

Anonymous said...

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Don't you see the maggots?
The two empty places each has one maggot. Bottom right place has several maggots in the top left corner.

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Corvo Island, the Azores.

MIKE HARRIS said...

re your final quote-no reference shown;
Of course your quote is from a conservative black thinker, Thomas Sowelll viz.
,“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” ― Thomas Sowell

Here is another of his quotes;
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell

Burgervan said...

C16: Insurers AND the Drug companies make both, EXTREMELY expensive so that any losses (Deaths) have been WELL covered.

Ralph Henry said...

Dear Burgervan,
I'm still confused. Let's suppose a 40-year-old man needs blood pressure meds that will, on average, prolong his life by ten years. Surely the premiums he would pay during those ten years would exceed the cost of the meds.
RH

Anonymous said...

They appear to be U bolts attaching the cable to the wood plank

Anonymous said...

C1: I never keep my car key with the rest of my keys.
It makes it easy to hand someone my car key to loan them the the car or truck. I also don't risk duplication of keys by handing someone all of my keys.

And if you look closely, this guy lives in Alaska. Up here we just keep the key in the ignition or sitting above the visor. No need to tote that baby around in our pocket.

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