Once upon a time, television viewers would rush to the bathroom or the kitchen during a television commercial, the point being to get back to the boob tube before the entertainment resumed. Ha! Talk about days gone by. Today, it’s possible to build that set of bookshelves you’ve always wanted and still get back for the last of the network promos. All right, all right! Perhaps I exaggerate. It might be necessary to sand and finish your shelves during the next commercial break.
Remember a few weeks ago, I hinted at news from the comic world. I haven’t forgotten. I simply haven’t heard anything yet. I caution you: it’s inside stuff that won’t directly affect you, although it might me. Within a historical context, however, it will be interesting to readers of newspaper comics. I’ll let you know!
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Jackie, ever read some of the comments on these videos? That last one had a good one. Cougar at his ‘naughtiest’ 🙂
Oh my cat….I just love happy endings and I know this cat will soon find a forever home…
http://cheezburger.com/1751301/this-blind-cat-shocked-rescuers-when-he-was-finally-able-to-open-his-eyes
You are right Debbe, there were some funny comments after Hurts So Good. I never read comments but I did. I like the one where they said the extras looked like they were pulled from public service as sex offenders. And the one that said they must be Canadian bikers because they were so polite.
And yes, Mellencamp is too cute and clean looking to pull that video off but you could say that about any of his songs or videos.
Yeah, Jackie, that was the one that I laughed at too.
Thanks for the video, Mustang Jackie, featuring two of my favorite things…hot cars and fast women. Oh, wait. Did I get that reversed? Nah, works either way. 🙂
Damn it, I forgot about the dreaded two links takes you to moderation never to be heard of again. https://youtu.be/8F8bjy0Hzr8
Will post second link in second post. This is Playing For Change and I agree this is awesome version.
Here is wiki on Playing For Change. I love street musicians and they seem to fit that vibe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_for_Change
OMC, Jackie, your link to the wiki page and video led me to more links….down to Bob Marley now. 🙂
…and they’ve fired IU’s coach, Tom Crean……wonder if he could draw unemployment 🙂
emb is not stupid, just unobserving. All I saw was 2 nuns talking, one apparently named Polly [rather than Mortimer or Joseph]. Didn’t notice the bird. Peace,
A parrot (possibly previously owned by a sailor) and two nuns brought an entirely different scenario to my mind. 🙂
So the pope thinks that priests should be able to get married. I agree but has he considered what’s next?
I miss the cartoons, I may have to see if I can pick a few (like this page) from the wreckage. (The new and improved cartoons sources now obliterate most of the ones I like with pop-up ads that my pop-up-ads-blockers can not control.)
Skip the preaching–the old paper suppliers did not obliterate the cartoons with pictures of penis cross-sections and vaseline and such.
emb, having had a canary who was an escape artist, I spot bird shapes well. It was not particularly obvious. I will amend my prayers to include them!
Debbe iu was not only in the tournament last year, they won the Big Ten. I am surprised by the firing but it could be that the administration’s expectations are a tad high. As long as the coach can keep an honest program and the kids out of jail, he should at least be able to last his contract.
I have been super conscious of my training and very conservative. I need to walk 20 miles this weekend and then the race is in 2 weeks. I will be fine. The victory is completing it standing up.
There was an article in Reader Digest about 18 mistakes people make. One of them was not timing your sleep right. People that wake up in the middle of a REM are groggy and those who wake up at the end are often refreshed. I have found that to be true. Once during a sleep study, they woke me up at 6:35. I asked I thought that you were going to wake me up at 6:30?” The aide told me that I was dreaming and they like for the paitient to complete their dreams….Now I know why.
I also asked her if they knew what I was dreaming about. She said “No, but you might want to check with the NSA.” I think she was kidding.
OK, Oxford comma supporters…you win.
http://fortune.com/2017/03/16/oxford-comma-court-case-grammar/
For some unknown reason, I have begun getting a daily email from the White House on my closely-kept personal email account. I blame the [No Such Agency].
Sadly, I will not be able to attend the therein announced White House Easter Egg Roll on April 17th. Do they really roll the eggs? And if so, on what? Or in what? Or under what? (I always wondered about that.)
On the bright side, I learned from the WH email that Ireland has a Taoiseach. I don’t know how I missed knowing that.
Here’s a tip: put a large ball of aluminum foil in your microwave and run for 5 minutes on high. This will disable the camera.
Jerry, your reservoir of knowledge is most aluminumnating.
Re: aluminum…The first image that came to my mind was the scene from ‘Signs’…where Joaquin is sitting there with Gibson’s movie children with aluminum cones on their heads..
Dad has this large soup cup that has a gold border trim on the edge of the top of cup…before I put it in the microwave, a voice deep inside me said…’don’t do that’…but, obviously Ian did not hear the same voice…microwave is still functioning though 🙂
Steve. yes, you’re right about them being in the NCAA last year, (I googled) and yes, I think they are expecting too much from too little input from the team…you play with what you have. Just don’t know about that generation.
Spoke with my sister who is a librarian at the school system here. She is thinking of ‘quitting’ and not going back to work the next school season. She is tired of rude, crude and socially unacceptable parents who will not take the responsibility of raising their children…expecting someone else to step up to the ‘plate. I know where she is coming from…before I was an egg packer…I also did substitute teaching….May the good Lord have mercy on us when that younger generation ‘comes of age’….
Mark’s been quiet today….Mark???
…..later….need to get Dad some supper down him.. he ate a good lunch of beef vegetable soup, which was not out of a can, but it’s down hill from there. Started diluting his chocolate milk with white milk with his ‘sweet’ munchies in the afternoon…just may have him eat some ‘Life’ for supper….or cottage cheese with peaches.
Debbe:
Actually, I have two photos, one in which we are standing and one in which we are seated.
They are kept in a safe place, and I hope that nothing ever happens to them.
Re the Oxford [or serial] comma. Willy Strunk was right!
Vindicated after teaching that for decades [and still doing so]. Wonder if it will have any effect on ‘AP Style’? Or on the NY Times, which still says in the 60’s when they mean in the ’60s. I know, those are apostrophes, not commas.
Peace,
‘Do they really roll the eggs? And if so, on what?’ On the White House lawn. There is rarely snow there on Easter.
That’s right, ‘Life’ is a cereal. Once, it was a magazine [and still is, sort of, in the checkout line at the store]. In the ’40-’50s, there was a routine, ‘What’s life?’ [as in a philosophical discussion.] ‘LIFEs a magazine.’ … eventually leading to ‘That’s life.’ ‘What’s life?’ …
Peace,
On the first dedicated on-line computer system we had in our office, typing “TIME” on a screen would give the current time. Typing “LIFE” on a screen would give nothing.