Weekend Open Thread-Christmastide
Images of Christmas (Ireland’s Own)
It looks like Christmas is next week. During the Thanksgiving mid-weekend open thread, I mentioned the Advent season. The season is almost over, and Christmas season is around the corner.
Advent season occurs from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve. For those going to church, the priests wear purple during most of the days, unless it is a memorial or feast day that would require white or red. Purple would also be a theme on garments, cloths, and drapings.
Starting on Christmas Day, and running until “Baptism of the Lord” Sunday in January, garments, draping, altar cloth, etc., are gold or white. Unless it is a service that requires red.
Christmas season starts on December 25. “Christmas Day” is the first day of the season. Depending on who you ask, Christmas either has 12 days or 40 days. The 12-day period runs from December 25 through January 5, inclusive. The 40-day period runs from December 25 through February 2, inclusive.
However, when the church’s mass practice was revised in 1969, only the 12 days of Christmas and the eight-day “Epiphany octave” were included as the Christmas season.
Merry Christmas (Chad Madden/@chadmadden)
So, Christmas season runs from December 25 until “Baptism of the Lord” Sunday the following January. For this year, Christmas season runs from December 25, 2019, through January 12, 2020.
Sunset the day before is considered the beginning of the celebration and season. December 25 is mentioned here, but the liturgical start of the season is sunset December 24.
You wouldn’t be “out of season” if you had Christmas decorations up until the evening of January 12, 2020.
An “octave” is an eight-day celebration, with each day being celebrated as if it were the first day of the season. There are only two “octaves”, one for Christmas and one for Easter. Christmas octave runs from December 25 through January 1. Each of these days is celebrated as if was the first day of Christmas.
Enjoy your weekend and happy gift hunting if you have not completed your Christmas shopping
Category: Open thread
First.
Two in a row.
SUCK IT!!
F5 F5 F5 F5 F5
daHell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!sumbitch!!!!!!!!!!!!
curses…foiled again!!! Imma gonna string me a fibber optic drop to the CO.
Go sleep in the wet spot…beeeoytch
HAHAHAHAH!!
Well for a late Christmas Present, I might let you have WoT First next week. Unless I’m sitting here at work, avoiding work and being a grumpy bitch.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah and/or Chanukah and a Happy New Year to all of you degenerates.
Its not official until the SOTH says so.
Congrats, ChipNASA.
Oh, and doesn’t First on the Christmastide WOT have to pay all the bills for the rest of us?
1st
MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU FILTHY ANIMALS!!
Merry Christmas, ChipNASA and congrats again on your Firstie!
😄
look at me being early!
Merry Christmas all you crazy people ^_^
Merry Christmas, Aysel!
I guess TAHers are not only crazy people, but filthy animals as well! (According to the Chipster).
😉😎
My Christmas gift to all of you Weeds and Weedettes is the same thing I give you every week – the trivia column. But somehow, this one seems … different. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all of you!!! DID YOU KNOW…? Did Jackie Gleason once threaten to sue the producers of The Flintstones? By Commissioner Wretched Next week is Christmas. The week after that is New Year’s Day. And with that, another year begins. Time, as they say, marches on. Yet, it’s worth a moment to reflect on the special meaning of this most wonderful time of the year. No, it’s not about presents under the tree. Nor is it about Santa Claus, reindeer, tinsel and garland, holiday carols, or any of that commercial stuff. What makes the holiday special is its original meaning: the birth of a child in a town called Bethlehem more than 2000 years ago. A child whose life still impacts most of the known world even now, in one way or another. And we know He wasn’t born on December 25. He was most likely born in the spring, though no records of births were kept at that time. The celebration just fits the calendar with the one Roman holiday that was left over after Christianity took hold. It doesn’t hurt to wish Him a happy birthday next week, and I hope you do. Just as I hope you enjoy this week’s trivia, and that you have a very Merry Christmas! (And a Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends!) Did you know … … a seemingly harmless order led to the deaths of more than 40 million people? In 1958, Chinese leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976) gave an order to eliminate sparrows from China. The reasoning was that sparrows ate seeds, and that meant crops couldn’t be grown. So people killed or scared away sparrows. In a classic case of unintended consequences, the sparrows either died or fled, and that led to a massive influx of crop-eating insects such as locusts – which the sparrows would normally eat. The resulting huge agricultural failure was one… Read more »
Little known fact regarding Jackie Gleason contemplating a lawsuit against Hanna Barbera for copyright infringement, for some reason, he consulted an attorney in Montgomery County Maryland who specializes in real estate law.
Fine job, again, CW on bringing these tidbits of information to us. I always learn a little something. In today’s case it doesn’t mean that you will get a birthday present next 26 Sep, but my stroked out brain may and or may not remember to lift another Yuengling in your honor.
Thanks, too, for mentioning the other Birthday Celebration that many of us will observe next Wednesday.
CW wrote:
“it is illegal for dogs in Arkansas to bark after 6 p.m.?”
Did anyone tell that to Ole Hillary when she was an Arkansas resident?
😈
CW wrote:
…”the producers of the popular cartoon series, “The Flintstones,” were almost sued for plagiarism? William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created a Stone-Age cartoon called “The Flagstones” in 1959, as a spoof of “The Honeymooners,” created by Jackie Gleason”
Interesting.
Warner Brothers Cartoons, Looney Toons, came out with this cartoon “The Honey-Mousers” which was a take on the Honeymooners.
“In this spoof of TV’s “The Honeymooners”, Ralph Crumden and Ned Morton are Mouse versions of Jackie Gleason and Art Carney’s characters on the TV show. When new human tenants move into the apartment where the Crumden and Morton couples live, Ralph and Ned try to gain access to a banquet of food in the people’s refrigerator, which is guarded by an orange cat.”
To the Moon, Alice!
Gleason may or may not have approved of the Warner short … but his issue with the Flintstones was its ongoing success, which he felt was built off of his work. But, as I note, he didn’t want to be the guy who killed the show, so he let the matter slide.
I love the one about the ChiComs and time travel. That is really rich, their reason that such sci-fi is “disrespect for historical facts.” Communists love to rewrite history to suit the propaganda they feed to their masses (their slave populations). Remember how many of Stalin’s minions were written out of their history books and removed from photos, once Stalin had them whacked. Communists love to rewrite history to eliminate all those inconvenient facts of their evil or incompetent deeds. Bet you won’t find a history book in China telling the story of the sparrows and the three year famine.
Rewrite history? You mean like liberals have been doing in America for the past few decades?
See !!!!!
Saturn is going to lose its rings !!!!
Trump has to be impeached before he gets a chance to destroy the Solar System !!!!
He’s already destroyed the Earth and nobody will live past his end date for his presidency !!!
His last act will be to annihilate mankind so he can build another casino on the Moon where only he and his selected friends will be living !!!!
DOOOMED !!!!!!!
We are so DOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEDDDDD !!!!!
“Lose” it’s rings?
Pawned them
Yet again Hack Stone was busy trying to close a sale when the Weekend Open Thread posted. Christmas time is very difficult at the proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government formerly located in Bethesda, as it was just about five years ago this week that Elaine Ricci was taken from us. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers, and if you haven’t made that Christmas gift purchase for that special someone in your life, have you considered the gift of Y3K software? It’s something that they will treasure for the millennial, and it makes a great stocking stuffer. Be sure to enter the promotion code SPANDEX for a 13% discount when you check out.
I miss Psul.
I miss sockpuppets
I miss Chew Toys.
I thought I was good this year.
Maybe net week Santa will bring us a gift. Maybe for the New Year.
One can only hope.
One of Hack Stone’s many Christmas traditions is to go to the Facebook page of Donkey Cartel and post a comment about his untimely demise on Christmas Eve 2015. If you recall, his passing was noted on one of the Feel Good Stories, where the late Mr. Cartel decided to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior by busting a few caps in a crowded Charlotte NC mall on Christmas Eve, only to be gunned by the racist po-po. One of Hack’s troll down memory lane elicited a response where someone called Hack a “milkshake”. Could that be considered lactose intolerance?
On this eve, I was able to find some footprints of the infamous Mr Donkey but alas, i was not able to fine his individual Book of face for to have myself also, impart some seasonal greetings to the individuals that were followers and fans of such a fine, fine individual, as are all of his friends.
The world suffers from his loss and their grief.
Linky?!?!
Just enter Donkey Cartel in Facebook search, it should come right up. Plenty of photos of him doing the “gangsta pose” with wads of cash and firearms. He liked to keep it real. Hack will pour out a 40 ounce of eggnog in his honor this weekend.
Got your back, Chip. He went by the name of “Ola Hulo”, for some reason.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007154056851
Why did I click that…….
Delayed Whiz Wheel®™ results on Daquan Antonio Westbrook (DRT) AKA Ola ‘Donkey Cartel’ Hulo are:
(BLDAM*) 41 x 5 = 205
*Bernathian Level Dumb Ass Move
Top ten and Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
Merry Christmas, Dickweeds and Dickweedettes!
Where’s everybody at? The dust is cleared by now! Damned ol’ zoomie done stole my thunder..again!
A most Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and for some a Happy Kwanza. May you all be with Family, Friends and Loved Ones and Celebrate this Season of Joy and for some of us The Celebration of the Birthday of that Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth. This will be the FIRST (ht to the Chipster) Christmas in many a year that I will not be able to be with my precious Darling Dumplin’ Daughter. Today is her 40th birthday (best gift I ever received), can’t drive by myself that far anymore, and too stressful to Groome ride it to Atlanta and back. It would be wobbly going thru the airport too. Bastards ceased the Macon to Tampa flight so that’s out. I will be preparing a feast for some folks, a Lady Friend and her daughter & sil, and the shut ins that are either side of Firebase Magnolia.
Depending on your beliefs, may you Supreme Spirit Being be with you and yours. I Thank My God for my TAH Family and I pray that America will again Bless God and damn the enemies of our Republic to eternal Hell.
Amen, 5th/77th.
Take care of yourself, and may your prayers go straight to God’s ears.
Happy 40th to your precious Daughter, KoB.
Almost a Christmas Baby!
They grow fast!
Please do not forget to share your Menu with us-perhaps oneday we shall see your Southern Culinary skills on TV?
Thank You to You & CW about sharing your Faith on the Outlaw (He had a Band of Unschooled Ruffiens), the Magician (He played tricks with Fish and Bread and turned Water into Wine),the Jewish Carpenter, the King of Kings and a Friend to many.
Happy Hanukkah to my Friends of the Jewish Faith and Happy Holidays to others who have different beliefs during Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
😊
Yo… FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US!
A JOYOUS FESTIVUS TO ALL!!!
Merry Christmas Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. AW1 Rod sends us a Trunk Monkey link, some classic, some new.
Enjoy!
Trunk Monkeys
Thanks Ed! Love those Trunk Monkeys! Had a couple guys who had never seen them standing by- good times!
Well, top 15
This week I worked some kinks out of a home-made plate rack, and my 10-year-old grandson was having so much fun he asked when he could get his CHL.
The plate rack stand is made from some scrap cedar-fence plank lumber. The “plates” are old plastic coffee “can” lids with some spare foam and old oatmeal container lids all glued together. The hinges are some flexible scrap water-barrier plastic I had left over. The Ruger SR22 pops them over easily.
Of course, grandson did put a few through the cedar as well – he has some skills practice to do.
Merry Christmas to all.
Making a little 3×3 set of shelves for the bench area… oughta hold powder, dies, and hopefully primers close at hand.
My poorboy workspace is pretty cramped, so I have to have my reloading supplies where they can break down and be put away in the cabinet beneath the gun cabinet. A pain to get set up, but I can multitask at the little workbench then.
May all your groups be sub-MOA.
Many thanks! Hopefully have a wee berm and 100 yard range set up by spring; if you venture up near the Rose capital you’ll have to stop by. Not long for a rifle but dandy for handgun plinking. Now if only all the guns hadn’t been lost in Lake Palestine…
Mine were lost in Lake Conroe during Hurricane Harvey, but the invite sounds like fun.
I use a small gully on our property that only allows some 30 yard pistol work. But that keeps me on my LTC game.
Baby Brother is having a ball closer to the coast, handloading for a 6.5 Creed and shooting some competitions. It scares me that his 596/600 23X score the other day didn’t even place. I want those guys on my team, not the opposing team.
has Lars started impeachment proceedings against Chip yet? I mean the collusion is obvious
Interesting article.
You Be The Judge.
“A ProPublica report: When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of 10 sailors. But the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster.”
“The Navy Installed Touch-Screen Steering Systems To Save Money; 10 Sailors Paid With Their Lives”
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/the-navy-installed-touch-screen-steering-systems-to-save-money-10-sailors-paid-with-their-lives-1.611946
This is a classic ‘Rush the System to the Fleet’ with insufficient test and training. The Navy Aviation community has paid the price in blood and treasure to learn this lesson. A large part of what I do is to ensure this never happens again.
The false alarm rate is an insidious problem, as after a while sailors simply ignore the alerts. And when they experience a valid system warning, a tragedy can occur.
There is no excuse for system instability and cascading failures- these problems should have been flagged and fixed well before installation and use at sea.
The lack of training is another glaring issue. It took NAVAIR nearly 30 years to overcome the Fleet’s distrust in an important ASW Search System because of the lack of initial training. Old NFO will know exactly what I’m talking about.
Whoever ran the Program Office for this new helm system at NAVSEA should be flogged for dereliction, but I’m sure it’s far too late now.
Music History Lesson Time (hat tip to Hondo and Dave Hardin):
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and introduced to the public in the 1949 film “Neptune’s Daughter”. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is popularly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. The song was released in eight recordings in 1949 and has been covered numerous times since.
Since 2009, the song has faced some criticism for the presumed implications of its lyrics as depicting sexual assault or harassment. In 2018, the airing of the song was cancelled by a number of radio stations, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s streaming service, due to some listeners’ concerns about the lyrics, but later reinstated it after public backlash.
The original “Baby It’s Cold Outside”:
Enjoy!
I found a Christmas Toy for our TAH Military Phonies:
Anyone remember this Commercial: “Gung Ho Commando Outfit”?
It even comes with a CIB and Dog Tags!
And Hand Grenades! And Machine Guns!
The Horror!
*grin*
“It’s all for fun and excitment”
Today’s precious little millennial manginal snowflakes would faint at the sight of the tv commercial, much less the actual play gear…
The folks that are in college now are Generation Z. Are you talking about that generation?
Yes, and I’ve lost track of the different gen monikers. I’m not even sure if I’m BB or Gen X, as I have seen my birth year mentioned in the date span windows for both…
Late to this bacchanalia! Tree work all day, lovely New England weather, a balmy high of 30°. Jumping in the chipper crossed my mind…more than once. Upside, I lived? It’s astonishing to me that a 40 year old man can do such things to himself with this bad of a hangover. Mr Jameson and I got into an argument last evening, f**k that guy.
Enough of my kvetching, Merry Christmas to one and all!
Thanks so much for being here and as always, have a GREAT weekend y’all!!!!!!
This was supposed to be a stand-alone comment.
My damn phone loves randomly picking a spot to post. I’m thinking taking the drill press to it might solve the issue.
They’re afraid of a picture of a gun now.
One of my Favorite Books during the Christmas Season:
The Sears Wish Book.
The other was the Montgomery Ward’s Christmas Book.
Enjoy reliving your childhood if you were part of this 1960s Era.
Open thread contribution…
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/12/17/half-of-active-duty-service-members-are-unhappy-with-trump-new-military-times-poll-shows/
This is my favorite part of your linked article:
When Obama left office in January 2017, a Military Times poll showed that 52 percent of troops had a negative opinion of him, against 36 percent with a positive opinion.
“As negative as some of the views are in the poll toward Trump, they have not yet reached the levels of disapproval voiced by troops in the final military survey before Obama left office”.
Merry Christmas.
Commissar, no need for you to wait for Santa this year again…..you still aren’t getting a CAB. (LMAO)
Effin’ Quakebuttock!!
Gee Whiz, Commissar:
Did you bother READING the article you posted?
“But the latest numbers still leave Trump with a higher approval rating than former President Barack Obama when he left office in January 2017.”
Hat Tip to SFC D.
hukt awn fonix wurkt fur me
It’s all that LDS that he took while at Bezerkeley
Hey Lars, the impeachment will be a failure, mark my words.
It won’t even be a an impearment.
She put him on Double Secret Probation.
Animal House 2019: The Impeachment
Pardon, but this comes to mind… [shakes head]
While walking on the beach earlier today I knew it was Christmas time because there was a pussycat standing there and of course you have all heard of Sandy Claws.
Merry Christmas/Happy Chanukah to all.
Like a hot load I hauled during my Trucking days, it had a contract clause for snowstorms, another for rainstorms, but when I asked if there was one for sandstorms, he looked me in the eyes and told me that there was NO Sandy Clause!
If you want to send a Christmas present that just might make difference consider making a campaign contribution to Eric Early, the conservative Republican lawyer who is running against that sorry-ass Adam Schiff.
https://ericearly.com/
It’s a strongly liberal congressional district but even a small donation is a chance to flip a bird at Schiff, Hollywood and the Democrats. And who knows, with enough funding support Early might unseat that bug-eyed asshole.
Christmas is my favorite time of year. I have always enjoyed decorating for Christmas, hanging lights, putting up the tree, Christmas music, the whole deal in celebration of our Lord and Savior. I love it even more now that I have kids. Taking them to pick out a tree is one of my greatest joys as a father. I like to drive them around so they can see everyone’s lights, and they love it when I plug ours in. For me, there are no downsides in December. I hope everyone can enjoy it as much as I do.
Picturing you doing that with your children made this old man smile, Whitey.
Merry Christmas to you and your family…
I agree. Momma and I always took our children to get a real tree. That was our tradition and one of my greatest joys. We would get a tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. I loved every minute of it. This year is going to be strange. Our youngest recently got his first apartment, so this year will be strange. It’ll be the first time in more than thirty years when we had no real tree and no children waking us at 0 dark thirty on Christmas morning.
I’m usually right with ya TOW, but this year is just a bit off.. Not sure why, but wife, kid (he’s 22 now) and I all seem a bit out of our normal lane for this time of year… working today and Christmas Eve, but have the rest of the week off.. Take care to all in harms way, and Merry Christmas (or your appropriate celebration) to All!
Further “Red Dawn” progress, for those interested.
Forgot the link.
https://www.deviantart.com/yt45
Tanks for the update TOW. Look forward to following the progress.
I had to hang my decorations too, because just like Epstein, they won’t hang themselves.
Oh and btw, a certain wanna be aerial jeep driver is still maintaining a solid minus 6 feet AGL.
What’s in the orange barrel marked #27?
Ice water. It’s actually marked “E-27” for my Dad’s old engine company.
So it’s not just a sayin, they really did
have ice water in their veins.
And carried extra.
I didn’t know you had a Deviantart account.
I do now.
That is great stuff. Love the detail. The water jug is a great touch.
A minor bit of “realism” to add would be spare sections of track, even just a link or three. Essential for long-term off-road use of tracked vehicles.
I have some spare track links that will hang on the tank, just haven’t painted them yet.
Select all that apply:
( ) Happy Hanukkah
( ) Merry Christmas
( ) Joyous Kwanzaa
( ) Feliz Navidad
( ) Mele Kalikiama
( ) Bah Humbug
( ) Happy Festivus
( ) Gung Hey Fat Choy
( ) Fröhliche Weihnachten
( ) Gungshi Shin Nien
( ) Joyeux Noël.
( ) Happy Diwali
( ) счастливого Рождества
( ) Tet Nguyen Dan
( ) Happy Winter Solstice
( ) Best wishes for the Holiday Season
( ) Other: _________________________
If there’s copious amounts of alcohol involved, I checked it.
Hack Stone heard about this morning on the DC Fox affiliate newscast. Since this bizarre story has it’s roots in Bethesda Maryland, it is just a matter of time until they link these miscreants to the disappearance of Elaine Ricci.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/12/ex-bethesda-lacrosse-coach-arrested-in-bizarre-murder-kidnapping-plot/
Anyone thinking of going on a Cruise? Someone on the Bridge of this one needs a drug rest!!
Those hood ornaments are expensive.
A little Bondo and some rubbing compound and she’ll be as good as new!
Como se dice “Whoopsie” en Espanol?
Touch screen navigation???
When Millennials/Gen Z/whatever dang kids they are today/etc. are attached to their cellphones but can’t change a tire…
Milankovich Cycles for glaciation and interglaciation:
Dog helps apprehend a man by jumping through his window to help detain him:
I bet the Pooch had to lick his asshole for at least an hour to get the taste of that perp out of his mouth!
Heard this police K9 was previously an Army dog.
Correction: He was a Marine K9. But he was likely serving with ground pounders in the A-stan, so he qualifies as infantry in my book.
working 4 12s over the next 5 days. America:Fuck Yeah!
Merry Christmas, ya bahstids!
Am Sick and Tired of This.
Guess what Party this South Carolina Rep belongs to:
“South Carolina Rep Silent on Naval Cadets Being Cleared In White Power Investigation After Accusing Them Of Racism”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-carolina-rep-silent-on-naval-cadets-being-cleared-in-white-power-investigation-after-accusing-them-of-racism
Her initial apparent physical attractiveness is overpowered by the pure satanic evil oozing from her eyes. I’d leave that one to IDC SARC.
If I had the inclination I might would check the demographics of her district. Somehow I have the feeling that I know what those demographics are.
We would use that same “racist symbol” many a’time when working aloft on aerial plant when we couldn’t hear for all of the background noise to insure the other workers were “you OK?”
You right ninja, it is getting tiresomely ridiculous. Saw a blurb where the Ohio University voted to change the name of the movie theater because of complaints from the BLM people over the female star of The Birth of a Nation picture made in 1915. If Black Lives Matter so much why don’t they quit killing one another?
As always, 5th, you nailed it.
President Trump is not dividing the nation.
Liberal Democrats are doing it.
Every time I see “racist” or whatever coming from a Deomcrat, my first reaction is “Look in the mirror, bitch”.
Ever get the feeling
that way too many Democrats
vote with their penis?
Ugh.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=State+Rep.+Mandy+Powers+Norrell
“A Democratic state lawmaker from South Carolina was facing backlash Saturday from critics who accused her of going silent after previously accusing Army and Navy personnel of being “cruel and disrespectful” at last weekend’s Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.”
“In a since-deleted tweet, state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell wrote, “Three separate candidates making the white power symbol on television. Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front? There’s no excuse and he and other minorities there shouldn’t have to deal with such a cruel and disrespectful environment.”
“But since her tweet appeared, U.S. Military Academy cadets and U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen have been cleared of wrongdoing in separate military investigations.”
I have been using the OK hand symbol for about 70 years. Who knew it was the equivalent of the Nazi salute or a burning cross? I even gave that circle hand signal to a Black trial judge when he asked me how much money we were offering to settle a case he was about to try. Of course, I had to add, “that’s not an OK, your honor,” indicating I meant it was a zero, which is what my opponent was awarded by the jury six weeks later.
What’s next? Is the “thumbs up” gesture going to be a slap at gender idjits?
Don’t give that lot any ideas, Ex!
So, this is for real – the AOK hand signal means something about white supremacy? Odd that the only ones who seem to know that are the same ones throwing around the term racist to describe anything and everything they refuse to otherwise acknowledge as being a matter of personal responsibility by someone they don’t seem to think capable of doing anything without their assistance.
Nope, the AOK hand signal means nothing more than AOK in the circles within which I travel. Seems what we’ve got here is one more case of their accusations saying more about them than the rest of us.
Things that were supposed to happen by 2020. They got it wrong about global temperature rise, we’re in the beginning of a mini ice age:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/22/2020-predictions-decades-ago-self-driving-cars-mars-voting/2594825001/
(Not so) Funny Phony Photo of the Week:
The Marxist Brothers
&
(Mrs.) Laurel and (Mrs.) Hardy.
Or….
Nationally shamed Stolen Valor phony LES BROWN,
some members of the Elko POW*MIA Awareness Association,
and a pair of their black vest believing trophy babes.
Yes, Les Brown is (still) sporting a subset of PHONY
on his not so biggest, not so baddest, not so blackest leather vest.
PHONY E-7 rank pin.
PHONY Desert Storm Veteran patch (with the 4 ribbons),
which of course he earned only 1,
the coveted National Defense Service Medal.
And (real or phony?) a lawsuit neck brace.
Harpo, Chico, and Gummo should feel ashamed of themselves, too,
for posing with this POS poser.
A Christmas gift suggestion…
ELKO is pig latin… for COAL.
https://www.facebook.com/106848159338009/photos/pcb.2749746618381470/2749746578381474/?type=3&theater
Here’s hoping that whatever celebration you and yours may or may not be celebrating in the next week or so is happy, healthy, and thoroughly fulfilling. Or not, if that is how you roll.
And that your hangovers are minimal.
(For those keeping track of such things, the queso dip turned out just fine and is packed up, ready for delivery.)