Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Actual Sheeple, The Thistle, The Unchosen One
Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893.
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.
She was cremated, and her ashes remained unclaimed in a filing cabinet for approximated 17 years until they were given to the NAACP.
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Joey Votto announced his retirement. I love this bit with David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld each gushing over their interactions with him.
https://youtu.be/8BdhnvR7uRc
August 22, 2024
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New York Times - No, ivermectin does not treat or prevent covid-19.
Someone commented: "They'll call the vaccinated "sheep" in one breath and then take livestock medicine in the next."
Can we make that person a professional commenter?
August 22, 2021
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When someone's middle initial is V, it sounds like their first name is battling their last name in court.
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My kids are serious chips off the old block. I put on a Buddy Holly song for the first time today and they both started asking questions rapid-fire.
"Is he still alive?"
"How old would he be?"
"How did he die?"
"Why did they fly a plane in the snow?"
"Did they crash into a mountain?"
"How old was he when he died?"
It's pretty shocking to witness people growing up, their brains apparently developing into your own.
August 22, 2020
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Some nice pics of Zuzu bugging Gretel at Pine Grove Cemetery in Bowmansville by the graves of their Grandpa's Grandma's Grandma's Grandma and Grandpa- Henry (1741-1816) and Walbina Good (1749-1821.) Not too many people named Walbina anymore, huh? Maybe there wasn't then either, somehow it was a nickname for Wallendine. Henry's parents immigrated here to escape religion persecution on the ship, Thistle.
August 22, 2020
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Gretel and Zuzu standing in the footsteps of their ancestors. The picture is of my grandparents, and they are now buried there.
August 22, 2020
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Some demented soul put a bumper sticker on my car- "What if the hokey-pokey IS what it's all about?" Who puts a bumper sticker on someone else's car???
August 22, 2020
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Don't take it from me, all the key Republicans knew that Trump is terrible.
https://fb.watch/mB2AyOdbHJ/
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Last day of preschool, kindergarten Monday.
August 22, 2019
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These "Trump is the chosen one" articles on conservative sites are generating some comments that are totally bananas. A typical one goes like this- "This is being blown totally out of proportion, he was chosen by 63 million Americans to be president. And yes by the way, God also chose him to fix this country." So they are saying it's being blown out of proportion, yet in the same breath agreeing precisely with the way they think it's being blown out of proportion.
August 22, 2019
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If Lindsay Graham had his way and Clinton was impeached to preserve the integrity of the office, Gore would have been elected president and won reelection in 2000 since incumbancy is a benefit and he only needed a few votes.
August 22, 2018
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So Trump says he committed no crimes... he paid off the porn star with HIS OWN MONEY. Is that true? Don't forget, truth doesn't matter to Trump. There is no truth... only words to make it through the next news cycle
August 22, 2018
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Interesting juxtaposition of these two polls!
August 22, 2018
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No matter what the future holds, Trump staring at the eclipse could be his presidency's most enduring symbol. Either it will not see 20/20, or prove that in the land of the blind, the guy who stares at the eclipse remains king.
August 22, 2017
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Concerning Afghanistan, I'm torn. On the one hand I agree with Trump that we gotta WIN! On the other hand I agree with Trump that people are dying needlessly, it's costing too much money, it's a total waste, we are not helping, and we got to get the hell out!
August 22, 2017
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Norm Macdonald:
A gay guy asks his roommate to play hide and seek.
“I’ll hide and if you find me I’ll suck your dick.”
His roommate asks, “And what if I can’t find you?”
The guy says, “I’ll be behind the couch.”
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Stand By Me was released on this day in 1986.
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Claude Debussy joined us on this day in 1862.
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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Hitler's propagandist filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, was born on this day in 1902. Fran Lebowitz had an opportunity to go to a dinner party where she would be. She turned it down. Why would she want to eat dinner with her? Why would anyone?
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French photographer, Henry Cartier-Bresson was born on this day in 1908. He said this about Marilyn Monroe:
"She’s American and it’s very clear that she is. She’s very good that way - one has to be very local to be universal."
Capote on Henri Cartier-Bresson- “I remember once watching Bresson at work on a street in New Orleans—dancing along the pavement like an agitated dragonfly, three Leicas swinging from straps around his neck, a fourth one hugged to his eye: click-click-click (the camera seems a part of his own body), clicking away with a joyous intensity, a religious absorption.”
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Activist and dissident, David Dellinger, was born on this day in 1915. Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays:
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace."
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Science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury, joined us on this day in 1920.
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
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Carl Yastrzemski was born on this day in 1939. Bill Lee, on his style:
"He's a dull, boring potato farmer from Long Island who just happened to be a great ballplayer. But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball. He made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of best-dressed men. He had the same London Fog raincoat during his entire career. We'd throw it in trashcans all around the league, and somehow it mysteriously made its way back."
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Other notable birthdays- David Chase (1945), Cindy Williams (1947), Paul Molitor (1956), Kristen Wiig (1973)
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Nine Works of Comedy Genius Hiding in YouTube
Please feel free to enjoy any or all of these. Or none.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-works-comedy-genius-hiding-youtube/
August 22, 2013
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Think Progress- A nun called out Paul Ryan on health care. His response was awkward.
You're kidding, so Republican tenets are not in line with the teachings of Jesus??? Seems like something the Democrats could run on, if they weren't all Satanists.
https://thinkprogress.org/nun-challenge-paul-ryan-health-care-3661cf5d8cc0/
Aug 22, 2017, 8:20 PM
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The Hill- Survey: 9 percent call neo-Nazi views acceptable
As long as he doesn't pissed them off, the president's support will never go below 9%.
http://hill.cm/jpU7i8D
August 22, 2017
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The Onion, August 22, 2018- Pros And Cons Of Trump’s Space Force
Con: Sooner or later, the problematic “everything about it” factor will arise.
https://trib.al/AKwaJHT
August 22, 2018
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I'm starting to think this bozo might not be entirely grounded in reality.
From Robert Reich: "Trump has made another preposterous claim about the economy. He now believes there won't be a recession because: "Our consumers are rich. I gave a tremendous tax cut and they’re loaded up with money.” Excuse me?
Here are the facts: The gains from Trump's tax cuts went overwhelmingly to the wealthy and corporations, and have done virtually nothing to boost ordinary Americans. At the same, his reckless trade wars will cost U.S. households more than $100 billion a year. Once again, Trump is living in a fantasy world as the economy teeters towards a recession."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-recession-denial-panic-conspiracy-873239/
August 22, 2019
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As I've been saying, don't take MY word for it! Consider taking his sister's.
“He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this. His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God! I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit! It’s the phoniness of it all. It’s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maryanne-trump-barry-secret-recordings/2020/08/22/30d457f4-e334-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html
August 22, 2020
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Dellinger again- "There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last."
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Parker again:
In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.
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The Creepiest Things Kids Have Ever Said To Their Parents
“My daughter’s friend’s dad, Ian, came in for a cup of tea one day when he came to pick his daughter up. My girl, Izzy, was playing with a toy sword. Ian said to her, ‘You know, Izzy, the pen is mightier than the sword.’ Izzy said, ‘I know, yeah, because you can stab someone in the neck with a pen."
And another?
When my youngest daughter was about 2-3 we were just talking and she said "I died all by myself" I asked her why she was talking about. She said "not when you was my mommy, when I lived with my old mommy. She had brown skin and so did I. The spider bit me and I died all by myself!" She is deathly afraid of spiders still and she is almost 13!!
And to finish it off...
We were on our way home to Alabama from Texas and my son was in the backseat and he said "mommy, who's the man in the backseat with me?"
It was just us two. No one else with us (that I could see). I asked him to describe him and he said "he's just black with red eyes. He's scaring me."
So, I pulled over and out his seat in the front with me and he said the man looked like he wanted to eat me when I moved him.
So there's that.
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First day of 3rd and 4th grade.
August 22, 2023
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I got a part-time job working at Aldi. Apparently. I get off work, I go over to Aldi, do my grocery shopping, clock in, run everything through the register and bag it up, clock out and go home. They don't even pay me. I don't know how they did it. Something about slowly decreasing the number of cashiers, while slowly increasing the number of self-checkout registers. Everybody shopping at Aldi, also works at Aldi. Genius.
August 22, 2023
Postscript- The weirdest thing, right after I posted that I was watching Bill Burr's stand up special from 2010, Let It Go, and he hit this exact topic.
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Bertrand Russell, On Education, Especially in Early Childhood- "The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely."
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