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Ruthmore

By Jimmy Johnson


I’m sorry I missed updating yesterday. I’m trying to do better about that. Actually, I was away from my lair yesterday and am again today, but Gene and Ruth resume their 1996 conversation. To be a stickler about it, it is their second conversation, and Gene’s confidence grows. However, I am going to interrupt our own conversation about adult Gene and the other coast people—and the boat—for at least a day. Thank you for coming by!

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149 responses to “Ruthmore”

  1. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    GR6, moral of the story could be, never take a fake weapon to a cane fight.

  2. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, now that’s what i call a bad ricochet: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/04/florida_woman_shoots_husband_i.html

    Shot in the knee, final destination…

  3. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Mark, is that a bank shot? Very likely a .22 caliber, they have a bad tendency to ricochet when hitting bone.

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Yeah, Mark, I saw that story previously. Reminded me of something I posted recently…

    Thought for the Day: You can tell a lot about a woman’s mood just by her hands. For instance, if she’s holding a gun, she’s probably angry.

  5. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 I’d forgotten how many artists had performed this song…from Nina Simone to CCR to Joe Cocker…all of them good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrSMaOZm3Y

  6. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    Husband has weather channel on (yes, it’s going to rain all day and plummet to 36 degrees this time tomorrow), but my questions is….what has happened to maternity tops??? The pregnant weather lady had on a sweater top, and all you could see was boobs and baby bump! Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think it’s a very becoming look.

    …and never underestimate a knife in a woman’s hand either 🙂

    still trying to get my email to come up too….

    Old Bear, love the quotes….

    ya’ll have a blessed day

  7. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 love Annie, almost as much as Chrissie….here’s a lesson on her makeup 🙂

    good song too,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7I4oniOyA&nohtml5=False

    Oh, and don’t forget Bette Midler’s version of that song either……..

  8. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Woman scorned story I heard from a police officer. Husband was seated at the breakfast table when he informed his wife, he was leaving her for another woman. She grabbed the first available implement, a meat fork. Her one stab was a killer, he arrived DOA.

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Actually, it’s been a while since a TWC anchor lady showed up on the air enceinte. It formally happened so often people joked that it must have been a contractual requirement when they were hired, or that there was “something in the water” there.

    Was it Demi Moore or Madonna or some other “celebrity” that started the “run to the photographer’s studio and have a nude picture made just before the baby pops out” thing? I mean, that’s fine if that’s their thing, and it certainly doesn’t offend me, but it just seems to me to be an odd way to make a “baby picture”.

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    Actually joke was that the trailer VERY OLD senior weather geek fathered them all. What was his name? Replaced by current little short bald very old weather geek Doctor Forbes.

  11.  Avatar

    Naked swollen body is supposed to show the world how beautiful the pregnant woman’s body is.

    I was not, no one ever told me I was but it might have been nice? Especially if they wanted another progeny.

    I just wanted that baby OUT.

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Is showing “the world how beautiful the pregnant woman’s body is” on a magazine cover equivalent to installing ridiculously loud stereo speakers in one’s car so that one can selflessly share one’s favorite music genre and selections with everyone within a six block radius? (Also see: “attention seeking”)

  13. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, I believe that would have been John Hope. If that rumor is true, it would lend much credence to the adage that “Hope springs eternal”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hope_(meteorologist)

  14. emb Avatar
    emb

    Just emailed this to 3 blind-cc. groups:

    ‘Headline from today’s Strib that is open to [un]intended misinterpretation:

    “Across Minnesota, there’s an average of nearly 800 students for each school counselor. Some lawmakers are pushing to improve that number.” ‘

    Peace,

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    Yes, John Hope. Then Jim Cantore inherited the rumor which might be believable. Hope and Forbes not believable. Cantore works on the body he has.

    I would not inflict my pregnant body on anyone.. Hal said Nantucket.

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    Nor nursing body either but then I didn’t nurse.

  17. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Interesting factoid: There is a city ordinance in Nantucket MA prohibiting the recitation of limericks.

  18.  Avatar

    Nudity? Or just nude limerecks?

  19. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    eMb and anyone else: In the Decorah eagle nest, what is that purplish round thing to the right of center? It was there a day ago – or two – near what seemed to be a deceased rabbit. Could it be some organ therefrom?

  20. emb Avatar
    emb

    http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/46/Great_Horned_Owls/ Looks like papa owl brought home a crow. Peace,

  21. emb Avatar
    emb

    c x-p: Wondered about that item, but couldn’t be sure. emb

  22. emb Avatar
    emb

    “plummet to 36 degrees . . ..” It may soar to 34 F here today. Peace,

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    It is 75 here and I am running car ac.

    Just saw funny sign on bank for a March to end gender discrimination. It said “Come see our president March in heels.”

    Made me think about marching in ROTC in heels, hose and garter belt as a darling. Should I suggest he add that?