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That sort of thing is never O/T, Sherry. Prayers sent
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

Echoing that, Sherry. Love for your kin.

"It is an embarrassment our poverty levels are
so high compared to other developed countries." —Vickie Mansour-Hasan, Chicago
quoted by: TheQuietMan

Heh. At first, I thought that was saying it's embarrassing that our poor are so well-off with big screen teevees and cell fones and nice cars and homes.

Howdy!

The good news today is, I can still clip my own toenails, unassisted. I knew you'd want to know.

Now to go up & see what y'all have to say.

Watched part of a movie tonight.

Watched the beginning of Reagan's 1986 SotU.

Watched Okla St Sen Dahm tweaking Pier Smorgan's nose.

Never mind why we only watched part of everything, but it was all good.

Was there anything good on the broadcast thingies?

Ha and ha. Now I'm slip slidin' away. Y'all b good folk.

"...Mama still lives there..." -GGE

Uhhhh... little thing like that just slipped her mind, I suppose. Any other dealings with her? The ghost, I mean, not the landlady.

BOO! :O

Generations of people had stories of being spooked in the old family place where we live. (Alcohol, and later other substances, may have been involved in some of these experiences.) There is an old Cherokee graveyard right here on the ranch. And some of my relatives buried here since the 1960s.

But the old house was abandoned for a quarter century. Book value of the house was $0.00 when we moved back, because you can't go lower. You know the line in "It's a Wonderful Life," where George says, "I wouldn't live there as a ghost!"? Yeah, I think our guy left in disgust.

At least, we've had no sign of such in the two decades we've been back. Probably because we still haven't brought the place back up to its old shape. siiigh

I don't believe in them, so having a ghost around really bothered me. But feeling he's gone, sometimes it's kind of like missing a long-gone pet. :\

My brother had brought a male mannequin to the house, which was named George and was dressed up and stood in a corner. Usually. When you wake up and the mannequin has moved to a different room, that's a little disquieting. Funny. But disquieting. Especially in the dim light at night on your way to the bathroom.

"Did you move George?" "No, why?" [hm]

or

"Did you move George?" ("Oh, right, I'm here by myself. Did I move George?") [hmmmm]

(After a few falls, George's face got bashed in, among other damage, and he quit moving.)

What did she say?

Posted by: mindful webworker at January 28, 2014 11:25 PM (U13jb)

She just said "Hello? Hello?" as if she wanted to know who was in the house. At first I thought it was the lady next door, but when I went downstairs the doors were all closed and locked and there were no lights on next door. I later found out from the woman I was renting the house from that "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you...Mama still lives there..."

...when a woman's voice calls up the stairs to me...
-GGE of the Moron Horde

What did she say?

Meanwhile, in the alternate timeline...

President Reagan 1986 State of the Union
http://youtu.be/ZIWkQbXSetM

It's 2014

and Biff Tannen is President.

Here's what I'm watching:

FULL: Senator Nathan Dahm (R) Oklahoma Interview on CNN Piers Morgan Live1/27/2014 over 2nd Amendment

http://youtu.be/sERXOthTntU

Just did a mystic reading about the SOTU. Boy, I haven't done one of these in years. My "this is like unto that" cells are asleep.

1. Significance cannot be said.
2. Infinite life.
3. All hail to the conquering One!

I trust I don't need to interpret that for anyone here. I had hoped to read something like, it will be interrupted by an alien invasion or something. No, it's:

A pointless speech that seems to go on forever that basically says, "I am teh Won!"

"I keep waking up very early from the noise of the radiators " -Carol

You've mentioned this before. Are you talking just the hissing? If they're banging, there's air in the system.

Nearly 15 years running two old Chicago apartment buildings with steam radiators. Don't miss that part! But we did have great furnace maintneance & repair guys.

Sorry, just found this reply...

One of the 'ettes requested some "Happy News" be placed in the middle of the links because all the news was so depressing. It gives a short break. -Vic

Yeah, I know. But... in Star Trek IV where Kirk advises Spock against trying to curse... or what movie scene is it where they try to get some character to smile, but when he does, it's scary and a mistake? Or that 21st C girl in Dr Who trying to speak in Olde Englishe prithee forsooth etc to Shakespeare (Dr Who: "don't do that... just... just don't.")

I'm not saying this well, but I expected Vic Happy News to be more of the Pete Seegar died, 2nd Amendment hero offs intruder, congresscritter punches self in face kind of good "news." And lo, Vic tried, but it was not really news, just a cat pic. Plus, the cat didn't really look all that happy.....

up to #35 I meant... which isn't much better...

egad! I'm only up to #15. I need a temporal relativity compression to catch up, but I left them all in town.

Commie bastard Pete Seeger is dead. Good riddance you red POS
Posted by: TheQuietMan

Yeah, one of those old-school Commies who thought "real Communism has never been tried."

But that song about, I get up and check the obits, and if I'm not there, I go back to bed? It's kind-of grown on me over the years.

Sigh. He did have a smile, a voice, skill at playing. And you know, I grew up with the beatniks and the folkies and LadyW came from the Chicago folk scene. I like the sound, and the wannabe idealism. What a terrible tragedy folk music was so STUPID!

Three Republicans tout their own Obamacide. Two RINOs and the third is retiring. Lets retire all three.
http://tinyurl.com/p9y37zd -Vic

Sorry about ol' Tom. Good guy in so many ways, but where he's wrong, he's McCainly wrong. Won't really miss him if we can do better. Ans if recent elections are any indication, we will.

Dr Coburn is a deferrent gentleman of the old school. We need unyielding warriors of the new civil war.

ahh. coffee. brain cells stretching, yawning, starting their little mitochondrial calisthenics.

And today's "happy news" is from cute overload. It's Mr Fat Cat
http://tinyurl.com/q6amszu
Posted by: Vic

That was not cynical, sardonic, or ironic. It was actually a happy cat. Who are you and what've you done with Vic?

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Mrs didn't go in yesterday for her 9am crown fitting 'cause the dentist called and said they had no suction.

Most businesses don't want to suck; this one's out of business if it doesn't.

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and it's a balmy 15°F here. Think I'll go sunbathing, if the sun would show up.

Govt tracking devices on autistic farting cows? What?

hurry, coffee machine, hurry!

Poor diseased cannibal rat,
adrift at sea.
How scared you must be.

Poor diseased cannibal rat,
You might land in England.
How terribly, terribly scared you must be.

Poor diseased cannibal rat,
with naught to eat.
Each other for meat.
And the toilet seat.

Poor diseased cannibal rat,
Helpless, trembling,
Let me reach out to you,
begin the mennnn OOOWWWWW!!!!