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Victory Lap

By Jimmy Johnson


We might as well stick with the cat cartoons for another day or so; this one is from 2004. I saw a short BBC documentary on Netflix the other night, about cats. It was called, “The Lion in Your Living Room.” Some of the things it told me about cats I already knew, and some I did not. At any rate, it was almost an hour-long video of beautiful cats and cute kittens and their weird behavior. The documentary did not say so directly, but it made clear that cats are not big fans of team sports. Speaking of, I have gone this far this year without mentioning college football here. Well, the rivalry season is upon us, and either that means something to you or it does not. As for me, I have my lucky shirt and my lucky cats (two of them!) lined up and ready to go.
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92 responses to “Victory Lap”

  1. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    emb – The Blue Robe – as I read your post I heard Garrison recite.
    .
    Had Juncos summer here when we were feeding
    .
    Mark
    http://thoughtpollution.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/JEff-Bridges-Ripd.jpg
    Looks like Sheriff Dead Eye (Red Skelton)

  2. TruckerRon Avatar

    Political comment of the day:

    When my toddler grandsons throw a tantrum because I’m leaving their house, it’s cute. When college students and other young adults throw a tantrum because their political party’s leaving the White House, it’s pathetic.

  3. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Just had family monuments cleaned (why did it take 60years the first time and 15 this time?)
    Added sons names and start date – expiration date later, maybe someone will appreciate it some day.

    GR6 08/16 is also our wedding anniversary
    .
    I remember ads for sundress under $3.00 (that is correct)but then that was a days wage.

  4. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    emb – 10/12 They know EXACTLY what they are asking in a poll. The point is to get the results they want.

  5. Bob in Orland Park Avatar
    Bob in Orland Park

    Got out of the Army in ’62. I learned I knack for electronics and ended up at the telephone company for 32 years.

  6. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    emb
    On pronunciation don’t forget Mankato (Man Kay toe) heard Man kah too accent on the Man
    on national radio once.
    And Winona is Win o na not Why no na.
    Worcester ma has also been mangled.
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    GR6 If stew or soup is too salty add Potato.
    Old trick, potato absorbs salt.

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Trucker
    Great comment
    The “ME ME ME” generation “I DID NOT GET WHAT I WANT – NOW”

  8. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    One of my favorite Dwight Yoakam songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EOG7UWcThQ

    emb, I don’t do shots, Kamikazes or otherwise. I do like a Jack Daniels and Coke on occasion, but my favorite is a Radler (preferably enjoyed on a nice day in a Bavarian biergarten). That’s half good German beer and half lemonade. Very refreshing!

    Hi Ghost Sweetie!!

  9. ursen Avatar
    ursen

    To all my brother and sister veterans thank you for signing the blank check. While we are at it say a prayer of thanks for what the Merchant Marine did during WWII, a forgotten, hard job.

  10. TruckerRon Avatar

    Today’s Best Medley:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDF6GQSd7yc

    My civic orchestra makes a point of playing that one each November.

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Hi, Jean dear. Thinking of your Daddy and all other military veterans today.

    I’d like to think that, like Wayne, they will all come home some day, but I know that will never happen. So try to give them a place in your heart.

    http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article112712983.html

  12. Jackie Moerflynies Avatar
    Jackie Moerflynies

    Welcome back Ghost. Hope you had fun on your vacation. I know I would have. That is an adorabless flying pig out in my butterfly garden. Someday I expect to see him doing belly rolls and diving in the zinnias with the butterflies.

    Now Little Ghost, he is another character, the most outrageous kitty of them all.

  13. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Then Little Ghost was obviously aptly yclept.

  14. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Isn’t “aptly yclept” redundant?

    Yep, add my thanks to those who served either willingly or via the draft. In particular, to those who went to ‘Nam, thanks to LBJ.

  15. TruckerRon Avatar

    Here’s the Marine Hymn in Navajo by a Code Talker in 2014:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx0Z9gwiGlU

  16. Jackie Moerflynies Avatar
    Jackie Moerflynies

    Having brunch, good Southern girl food, grits, sugar free pecan pie and a Diet Coke. Wait did I refer to myself as a good girl? Probably am, the rest is an over active imagination and remote memories.

    Butterflies everywhere out there. It was the pigs who were dive bombing my office windows when I joined Facebook. I always said when pigs fly.

  17. Jackie Moerflynies Avatar
    Jackie Moerflynies

    I am reminded of the years my father was MIA. my earliest years until I was seven when his remains were found and he was officially declared dead. My grandmother never gave up hope, she would try to locate any Jack Hodgson she heard about in a newspaper. My whole life.
    My father is still in Italy in the military cemetery there.

    That is why I had to vote, for all who died that we and others remain able to do so. That and all the long lines who registered on the day I did, standing behind ropes, protected by Marshall’s and deputies armed with shotguns. I stood behind no ropes nor lines or paid a price to be able to vote.

    Thank you all for paying for me. Freedom isn’t free.