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Vic's News on the ONT
http://bit.ly/VNN-2015-09-23

Morning, Glories, again!

MTF: We need to start keeping a retribution list...

Start? You don't already have binders full?

Wow, Vic has really lost his touch. Finished the news report nearly an hour ago, and there's still no morning post!

It's a black day with lunatics retarding our communications with their niggardly approach to language.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday Yogi Berra
Happy birthday to you

Morning, Glories!

Copied over from last thread:

I hate ticks!

I hate ticks!

Thanks, all.

Friends, Milady's oldest brother, Vince, is ill and probably dying. He beat the throat cancer a long time ago, but a new cancer has cropped up, and it seems there's nothing to be done.

Lost my cousin Sherry some weeks back. Milady's cousin Pat suddenly died from leukemia more recently. Our generation is hitting the wall, although really none of them was that old. (Of course, I go by the standard of my 95yo mother.)

Vince was best known as a longtime bartender on Chicago's North Side. (Can be an honorable position.) He truly was a gentle giant, impressive in height and girth. I remember him walking a drunk out the door of the bar one day, firmly, but so nicely the drunk thanked him. Conversely, Vince talks of getting booted from a bar himself, and tipping the bouncer. Heh - bar culture was something I had to learn in our Chicago years.

I also will always remember one day when I sat down at his bar in a time of trouble. He said I was the saddest looking person he'd ever seen. (For a longtime big city bartender, that's saying something!) Then he helped me find the solution I needed. And he probably bought me a beer. He did so much for so many as is broadly loved.

Vince is also a painter, musician, and writer. I'll try to post about his book on the book thread some Sunday soon. Been meaning to for a long time. Vince was in the Navy during Nam, radio guy. Also an excellent chef. Husband and father, he's leaving his devoted wife and their one beautiful adult child, my daughter's age.

Milady's family is large and scattered. There was a plan for relatives to gather and visit Vince, but all my daughter's cousins were coming and it was becoming a circus in a sick room. They were discouraging the en masse party when he took a turn for the worse, which if he doesn't improve, means he may not last the week. So, instead of going up to visit, we may have to go up for a funeral.

So, one way or another, Milady and I will probably be driving up to Chicago this week. Prayers welcomed where applicable.

socalcon: Rice has a 'taste'?

Sure. Butter and salt.

Star Trek: Where there is "no need for money".

That's because the only drink you could by is Synthehol™ - why bother?

Oh, whew, I'm not the only quinoa consumer here. Sometimes hanging out in the locker room, it's just not good to admit you enjoy quiche, kwim?

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George Orwell de Leon: ...Bernie Sanders, whom none of them heard of 6 moths ago...

Just because he smells of mothballs...

anon a mouse: Is that how one orders that new "quinoa" crap that's showing up on menus?

You don't have to be scared of some food just because the hippites like it. Wary, understandably. Just not scared.

When we had a ... cafe? whatever it was we were doing serving food to the public a decade ago... we sold a lot of Milady's amazing recipe for quiche, offered with a side of quinoa. The sign said, "Quiche & Quinoa... Say 'keesh' and 'keen-wah'." We had fun, anyway.

Morning, Glories!

Vic been spotted?

I actually get to read an ONT in the evening, instead of the morning. Hasn't been that way lately. Almost feels like I'm here.

number of people actually deterred: 0

Heh.

Thanks, Maet.

Gonna read some of the linked articles, and fold for the night, now.

Remember, friends, unity in spirit, not uniformity of thought.

Good night, Gracies.

Seamus Muldoon: [ijLightly used, pre-owned puns on sale this week only.

Okay then. Was worried you were losing your edge....

Seamus Muldoon: It's an Allahm clock!

That took you this long?

I found the hidden archeopteryx!

"Conservulists" vs "Consopulists"

Soon to be the new crossbows-longbows.

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re: Black diamonds: Day three report on experimentation. On Opera browser, I can change page encoding from Unicode-UTF8 to Western (any setting, it seems) and get the intended characters instead of the black diamonds.

But, can only post a comment in UTF8.

Pixy Blogware - reliable technology.™

AllenG: ...Nothing I see in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, or the Epistles suggests that He would have attempted to influence temporal authority policy one way or the other.

Did you count the emanations and penumbras?