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Evangels of truth, spiritual, political, or otherwise, are often in the position of ol' Johnny Appleseed. All you have the chance to do is plant the seeds. You have to rely on nature, experience, the Spirit, to do the rest. You won't be around for the harvest.

phoenixgirl: the thing about trying to get away with murder is some meddling annoying columbo type shows up .....

And those darned kids!

Last night's ONT had a discussion of getting away with murder (including a much-too-long; didn't-read by zombie). Someone (I think) noted that most murders are by passion on impulse, and the "getting away with it" part is not usually thought through.

Couple days ago, they found a body by a country road.

Today, I read, they've arrested a suspect.

(Look at this guy's smiling mug - would he hurt anyone?)
http://bit.ly/25COmgo

There aren't a lot of unsolved murders 'round these parts. Chicago it's not.

Looking back at my first, pre-caffeinated comment: bird call "descends like a penny whistle" - I must've meant slide whistle. It's okay. I have coffee, now.

Cat just tried to jump in my lap and miscalculated or something. Puncture in my leg, through my jeans (yes, I know wearing pants is not protocol, but I'm glad I was) and a new 1-inch scar on my forearm. Well, it will just blend in with all the others in time. Itches, though.

Maybe I should've saved that story for the pet thread?

"April Fools' Day has been banned in China." No joke.

A day late, but since it's an oddities thread, here are all the articles I linked to yesterday under the "April Foolishness" heading (also all previous years', if you go down far enough):

http://bit.ly/1SIqIIj

Hard to top this one, though [primaries-related trigger warning]:

https://youtu.be/VO-1ePYypdU

Bwah ha haah! Fault: drone operator.

"If you're going to be flying a drone and it happens to be in a neighborhood and you're there because you're working, let people know. As much as you can, let the people around there know, hey I'm going to be flying my drone around," says Mark Opgrande, spokesperson for the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office.

Ostensibly, contractor was just inspecting gutters. Sure, that's all. The moments when it also sort-of wandered over and peeked in the neighbors' windows was purely operator clumsiness.

I am proud to note that in Oklahoma the person shooting down the drone will likely not be charged!

Greets, y'all. Waiting for the coffee machine. Good to be here among the Saturday morning oddities!

Another beautiful morning here in NE Okla. Speaking of oddities, some bird out there is doing the strangest call - starts on a high note and descends like a penny whistle to a low one. Don't know what it is. Pretty, tho.

I've become convinced of Intelligent Design!
I'm sure that it's a fact and not a rumor.
Nose-hair is the proof, Inarguable Sign:
Intelligent, with Moron sense of humor.

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Weary Blues - Madeleine Peyroux
https://youtu.be/4w5i2WPTd2w

Ta!

wharrgarblr

Internet postings will leave no bones for historians to mine.

That's all I've got.

Peas. Oute.

Rich and varied content tonight, Maet. Thanks.

I think I see the Marine...

Is he aware of that big buck behind him?

Ace is up.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, about the correct amount of pizza sauce...

Nic fix post.

I used an encoded non-ASCII in my nic above. As usual, it screws with the Pixy cookie. Name field came back with the character (not encoded), plus my email, and the email field came back blank.

How to confuse the hamsters, lesson #435.

BTW, Pixy announced the other night that there would be new comment software rolling out "in the next few days," and linked to a sample website with it. I noted that the "comments" link on the main page required javascript. Siiiigh. Who knows what else will be munged?

But, we should be okay if the rollout takes the usual #twoweeks.

Pixy announcement:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=362305#c25036876

Oppressed Eyetalian Guy: *spits cawfee on screen*

I've long thought, if only I had the franchise on monitors and keyboards for the horde!

Stringer Davis: ...Then followed 25 years of ketchup on crackers, as pizza took the nation by storm. Pizza is now a world phenomenon...

Long before pizza was a thing: The first time my late, blessed mother-in-law was served pizza, she thought it was an appetizer, and was surprised when it turned out to be all they were having.

Just read the legal pot - violent crime correlation article from the headlines thread.

Doubt the implied causation necessarily holds. Violence is up everywhere a lot the past few years. (Breitbart: "War!")

Isn't there a website somewhere you can mix-and-match statistical factors, like sales of small cars and rates of industrial accidents, or whatever?

Ricardo Kill: What's the big deal eating pizza with a fork?

Want to know how we can tell you're an alien?

Actually, Milady has been experimenting with different crust recipes on her pizzas lately - and a few of them turned out less-than-sturdy. Required utensils to eat. But that was experimentation - doesn't count.

Anna Puma: The way Kasich apparently eats a pizza is in some circles a crime however.

Hello, 911? I want to report a man - I think it's a man - eating a pizza with a knife and fork. It's killing me.

Twenty-two years ago, tonight, our family arrived in Oklahoma, moving from Chicago. Back to Oklahoma for me & Milady, first residence change for our three Chicago-born kids.

Had a good life in Chicago. Stable situation, nice place to live, lots of in-law relatives including my sainted mom-in-law (now gone), knew how to get around without urban problems.

Gave it all up for... well, I'll just say moving to Oklahoma may be the last good decision I made. But it was a good one.

johnd01: Huh. The Geico Greco.

I came up with one pun. And it's been used. (Glad I checked.)

2nd morning in a row I've received a call from Virginia area code CVS pharmacy calling about a prescription for "Jennifer." Didn't answer; they left a message. Weird.

When I tried to get the voice mail, somehow it started calling my mom, which was all right, wanted to confirm she wasn't hit by the twister last night, which she wasn't. But I don't know how I managed to dial her. ("Dial" - isn't that a funny anachronism.)

Then when I hung up on her, music started - a cut that I had last played half a year ago. (Rarely listen to music on the cell.)

What was all that about? Smart phones are dumb; or getting too smart for their own good?