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Howdy, y'all. It's morning in America. Clear and crispy cold here in NE Oklahoma.

Here's BlazingCatFur's Evening Photos from last evening, which are just as good in the morning.
http://bit.ly/1RuRQ0f

Includes... the Larch.

Well, I'm done. Happy Equinox. Hope you had a good Palm Sunday. Easter week comic webwork in nic link.

Love one another. Even during the BB gun fights.

Dang browser. Erase my comment instead of posting it, will ya? Thanks. Try again.

Home - all pets accounted for. Feet up. Relaxing beverage t'hand. Won't last long.

I'm reminded of one Fourth of July - we never had those Skyline construction sets, but my pal did. His brother built a tall skyscraper and filled it with Black Cats...

Long before "Towering Inferno."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Typical_box_set.JPG

Going to shift locations. BBL, pro'ly.

Even looking at the larger version of the picture, I'd say two girls, but as t-bird said, that seems too easy, must be a trick question. Twelve, so it appears...

So, will we get The Official Answer this evening, or is this a philosophical, academic inquiry to which there is no "right" answer?

those were the days: ...Then we realized you could make them go off by laying them flat on the ground and dragging a coin across them...

You had coins?

We had to use rocks.

Didn't use fingernails. Made it unpleasant to pick the nose afterward...

As a related (kind-of, maybe) piece to "On Publishing and Book Scarcity," something I recommended in the book thread this morning. (Was it only this morning? What a long day.)

Washington Irving holds an imagined dialog with an old tome in "The Mutability of Literature."
http://www.bartleby.com/109/6.html

[quote]
...Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature. Formerly there were some restraints on this excessive multiplication. Works had to be transcribed by hand, which was a slow and laborious operation....

[snip: other restraints listed]

...But the inventions of paper and the press have put an end to all these restraints. They have made everyone a writer, and enabled every mind to pour itself into print, and diffuse itself over the whole intellectual world. The consequences are alarming. The stream of literature has swollen into a torrent - augmented into a river - expanded into a sea....
[endquote]

And that was long before Blogs...

Man Gets $180 Ticket, Spends 75x That Fighting It

It's the principle of the thing, right?

I don't see myself in the top tens. I'll try harder this week. To stay out of them.

Ah, there you are!

I was starting to worry.

Howdy, y'all.

Religion joke dept., punchlines only:

"They think they're the only ones here!"

This is for the whole thread:

http://instantrimshot.com

Somebody Out There Has Never Heard It Before Dept.

Grade school playground memories, now made anachronistic by political changes, history not taught, and Common Core math...

You know why fire engines are red? Because...

One and one are two.
Two and two are four.
Three times four is twelve.
There's twelve inches in a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was also a ship.
Ships sail the seas.
Seas have fishes.
Fishes have fins.
Finns fought the Russians.
Russians are red.
And that's why fire engines are red,
because they're rushin' all over.

(Read aloud works better than read written out.)

Grade school playground memories.

"I said ping pong balls...!

(Just the punch line)

NaCly Dog: ...inventor of the USB stick...

This is probably the joke I think of most often.

Referred to it again just yesterday as Milady was attempting to plug in her cell charger cord.

Some jokes are like the humorists' convention, you just refer to it by number.

"It's all in the delivery."

The book thread commentary is always amazing and inspiring.

Before I refresh the page to read more, forbear a plugola for a comic I did back in 2013, and annually announce with all due humility and trepidation. It's not a book. If printed, it would hardly be a pamphlet. But maybe you could pretend it's bookish, just for today, and maybe next week:

Jerusalem Report
Reporting on miraculous events one week in Jerusalem.
Sort-of if they had some modern technology like TV and cell phones back then. Not strictly Gospel-adherent, but, I hope, not irreverent.

http://bit.ly/jeru-report

Full link also in nic for your convenience.

chique d'afrique: Vincent Price was great in the radio show The Saint.

Driving home late recently, I caught just the tail-end of an episode of that. I kept thinking, "Who is that voice...?" As he exposed the murderer. (They told me at the end of the show, of course.) Would like to hear more of that program.

OM: And I must say I am always pleased when I find out that some guy I had always thought of as a bit of an unserious hack turns out to have had some depth.

That "bit of an unserious hack" started out in serious roles on stage and screen. Check his Wikipedia bio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_price

A blessed Palm Sunday to y'all, bookies.

Readers and writers alike should find this little sketch amusing. The author, in the library of Westminster Abbey, engages in dialog with an ancient text.

Washington Irving: The Mutability of Literature

[quote]
...How much, thought I, has each of these volumes, now thrust aside with such indifference, cost some aching head! how many weary days! how many sleepless nights! How have their authors buried themselves in the solitude of cells and cloisters; shut themselves up from the face of man, and the still more blessed face of nature; and devoted themselves to painful research and intense reflection! And all for what? to occupy an inch of dusty shelf - to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age, by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler like myself; and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of this boasted immortality. A mere temporary rumor, a local sound; like the tone of that bell which has just tolled among these towers, filling the ear for a moment - lingering transiently in echo - and then passing away like a thing that was not....
[endquote]

http://www.bartleby.com/109/6.html

Missed participating in the pet thread this week, but enjoyed reading all the post and comments anyway. Happysadz, as always.

I'm confused (but not as confused as Hillary). Is this thread only for commenting on the post-related topics and the EMT continues as the - what did Ace call it? - floating open thread (which concept seems to work so well with the Moron Horde)? Or is it Saturday?

Vic: nood

Awww, and we were just starting to get this thread warmed up...!

And since y'all are talking about nuking cities...

DC Suicide Madness Continues
Adam Kredo, Wash Free Beacon

Congress has cancelled funding for an advanced missile defense system that has been deployed across the D.C. area during the last few years to prevent against a rising threat from cruise missile strikes....

http://bit.ly/21ABGSo

Well, it's only the nation's capital, after all.