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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.

Monday, October 23, 2023

MONDAY #5416

 One Of My Very Own

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT


The biggest red flag concerning religion is its prohibition against asking questions. I have been told "That is not for us to know" more times than I can count.

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I call it escapism and it's not different than sitting on a bar stool all day sipping beer after beer. But there are alternatives to coping with reality...

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For-profit hospitals and insurance companies is no way to provide healthcare.

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A Quote

- I strongly urge you to listen to this -

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Dear Black Friday,

We all have big-screen TVs. Put those groceries on sale.

Everybody

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They call it Amtrak because the train am on the trak.


PEOPLE I WISH I HAD MEET


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You can always trust someone who reads poetry.

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"This piece I made to not waste leftover threads that I use, and I think it reflects my life very well."

 I read a story in middle school about a girl losing her cherished grandfather and when she was rummaging through his things she found a large box full of balls of string that he had been collecting for decades. Then on the top shelf was a smaller box full of bits of thread and it was labeled "String Too Short To Save". I think of that often.
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I would like to meet him because admitting that to the world took courage.

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I would like to meet him just to sit and have him explain his worldview to me.

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The Pickle Sisters, a roaring twenties-era vaudeville group

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Remember this good guy?

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Here's a Couple of Water Hazard Helpers

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Did we ever find out how the vampire's interview went? Did he get the job?

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To hell with wine tasting, is soup tasting a thing? Soup after soup lined up with fresh bread. Why is this not a thing?


WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT


Solar panels when you live next to a golf course...

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Priorities...

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That combat is challenging enough on level ground but on a mountain top it must be terrifying.

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Rehydrating green tea leaves

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Study this a moment.

A trained eye finds relationships like this all the time...

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I found it interesting that with all that heavy equipment there is still a guy with a sledgehammer.

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Bobbit worm

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And it has very little fat. I was told that is almost all muscle.

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This elephant returns a child's shoe dropped into the enclosure.

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Orangutang Snake Class

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Gorilla Dad

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Having access to people smarter than you is a blessing, not a threat.

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Every loaf of bread is a tragic story of a group of grains that could have become whiskey but didn't.


HUMAN ACTIVITY


I was once told by a retired professional boxer that the most important thing is not the speed of the punch but the speed of the recoil so you can strike again...and again...and again.

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She shouldn't give up her day job.

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They should have just asked the kid if he wanted to do it. If the kid balks then get a Plan B.

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 That looks like fun but there's probably damage to the environment. Or not.
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*Did you notice how the clip jumps? That bothers me.

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Yeah, I would trust them to fuck it up.

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I've been accused of not wanting people to have fun but can anyone defend that as anywhere near sane?

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I'll bet money his daddy buys his tires.

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That is foolish on so many levels.

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*MNBT

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Birch Water

Question: Is the drill necessary? Could you just hammer in the drip thing with a rock?

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Chorus f

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Living Sculpture Incident

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Very Odd Wrestlers

Did you notice his foot?

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Puzzle. Time: the masked singer

billr said...

Soup tasting: Our county food bank does this. Once year for their big fund-raiser (needed now more than ever, by the way) they do a big "dinner" event where they get local restaurants to provide large amounts of their signature soups. Event-goers get to sample any soup they want and can pick one or two and get a cup or a bowl of those. It's very popular. As a side thing, they have ceramic bowls made by local school children and pottery clubs and everybody who buys a ticket to the event gets soup, salad, dessert, and a bowl.

^^C2^^ A friend of mine was a school teacher in Barrow, Alaska back in the 80s I think it was, Barrow is the most northern city in the US, at the extreme tip of Alaska. At the time Barrow was a dry town, but every once in a while a plane like the one in the picture would arrive over night. The teachers always knew when the booze plane came because of all the kids who came to school the next day with bruises, or sleep-deprived from having to hide from assault by drunk adults all night.

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