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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 21, 2016 19:09:50 GMT -5
Four writings over a urinal at a bar -
Toy Story 2 was OK
Yeah!
Foreigner sucks
No YOU Suck!
I choose to believe the last one was by Carl from AquaTeen Hunger Force.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 21, 2016 19:13:49 GMT -5
Four writings over a urinal at a bar - Toy Story 2 was OK Yeah! Foreigner sucks No YOU Suck! I choose to believe the last one was by Carl from AquaTeen Hunger Force. Why was the urinal outside? |
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Post by ganews on Sept 21, 2016 19:22:32 GMT -5
Four writings over a urinal at a bar - Toy Story 2 was OK Yeah! Foreigner sucks No YOU Suck! I choose to believe the last one was by Carl from AquaTeen Hunger Force. Loverboy has always sucked. I don't NEED no instructions to know how to ROCK! |
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 21, 2016 19:22:41 GMT -5
A guy in business casual attire digging a ditch in an empty lot at 8:00 in the morning.
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Post by monodrone on Sept 22, 2016 7:24:16 GMT -5
There was a fox kicking about near my house when I was driving home from band jamz last night. It got spooked by the headlights and scurried off down the street, probably to raid some bins.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 22, 2016 8:05:55 GMT -5
A guy in business casual attire digging a ditch in an empty lot at 8:00 in the morning. That wasn't a ditch... |
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Post by ganews on Sept 22, 2016 8:17:07 GMT -5
A guy in a t-shirt that said "F*CK LETTUCE" with a cartoon steak in place of the asterisk.
C'mon man, it's just lettuce, it's hardly anything. Crunchy congealed water that's warmer than ice. It's not even enough fiber to help you poop that steak.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 22, 2016 8:21:02 GMT -5
A guy in a t-shirt that said "F*CK LETTUCE" with a cartoon steak in place of the asterisk. C'mon man, it's just lettuce, it's hardly anything. Crunchy congealed water that's warmer than ice. It's not even enough fiber to help you poop that steak. Inspired by this, here is a belated Things I Saw Outside On My Trip Last Month: link |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 22, 2016 8:23:51 GMT -5
A guy in business casual attire digging a ditch in an empty lot at 8:00 in the morning. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2016 9:17:12 GMT -5
A guy in a t-shirt that said "F*CK LETTUCE" with a cartoon steak in place of the asterisk. C'mon man, it's just lettuce, it's hardly anything. Crunchy congealed water that's warmer than ice. It's not even enough fiber to help you poop that steak. Inspired by this, here is a belated Things I Saw Outside On My Trip Last Month: linkRADA RADA! |
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 22, 2016 9:20:46 GMT -5
A row a carefully planted little pine trees where a guy in business casual attire had been digging a ditch in an empty lot at 8:00 in the morning.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 22, 2016 10:05:35 GMT -5
A minivan with a custom paint job of... dark green and navy blue plaid. All over it. It had a beautiful wooden canoe tied to the roof. If it hadn't been in a crowded grocery store parking lot, surrounded by electrician vans and Priuses with little-kid stickers all over the insides of their back-seat windows, it would have been like living in an LL Bean catalog. Alas, it was in a crowded grocery store parking lot, surrounded by electrician vans and Priuses with little-kid stickers all over the insides of their back-seat windows, so instead it just looked ridiculous.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 22, 2016 21:01:59 GMT -5
I went for a drive out in the country this evening, shortly before dark. Along the way I saw: a couple of beautiful old barns, a guinea strutting along beside the road, people harvesting corn and beans, dark stretches of road where the trees met overhead, a deer running across the road in front of me, two different dirt roads with signs reading "road closed during wet weather" and "road impassible during wet weather", and a bunny sitting beside the road.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 22, 2016 21:04:25 GMT -5
I saw two airports.
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Post by GumTurkeyles on Sept 23, 2016 12:11:40 GMT -5
An old man standing in his doorway across the road, waving his cane and kind of shouting/making a sound to attract my attention. I was in a hurry, and this isn't a good way of attracting my attention anyway, so I just shouted 'What?' at him. He shouted, 'What day is it?' I shouted back, 'Tuesday!' He waved his cane and said, 'Thank you very much.' I went on with my day. |
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Post by Logoboros on Sept 23, 2016 17:27:45 GMT -5
Tucked into my mailbox today: a glossy flyer for a four-day seminar entitled "Revelation Reveals Hope" put on by one Robert M, Wagley and hosted at a local Adventist church. The descriptive text on the front? "Global terrorism, antichrist, and Armageddon. Go beyond the headlines, fear, and confusion. Discover hops for a world in crises [sic]!" The artwork is pretty incredible. It's like if you got Drew Struzan to design a poster for the Book of Revelation (fused with imagery of ISIS fighters and drones and riot-geared police).
What do some of the individual seminar sessions promise to deliver? "Revelation's End-Time Antichrist: Learn the important keys for discovering the mysterious prophetic beasts of Daniel and Revelation. This powerful presentation provides the basis for unraveling the secret to one of the Bible's most important prophetic realities for today."
It's a weird blend of tones (not unlike Trump, in a way), because it seems to be simultaneously pitching "The End is Nigh! The Beast is Rising!" and also "It's all going to be okay!" The back text emphasizes "Find peace and confidence for your future!"
It does pique my curiosity. Not remotely enough to attend, but I wish there were some local blogger who would write up what this thing was like. I also, on Googling the presenter, see that he's been doing versions of this seminar for several years. I have no idea if he is of the ilk who claim Obama as antichrist, but I'd love to see if he's been "adjusting" his identifications of significant global events and who is what beast over his years of doing this, and if there's any awareness on his part or on the part of his audience that these kinds of prophetic interpretations seem to always be moving their own goalposts (or some other metaphor that's more accurate to what I'm trying to say). I'm guessing not really. It's a narrative of eternal improvement and refinement of the interpretation -- because last year's prophecies didn't come to pass, that just means we've attained greater clarity as to the true meaning of the images!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 20:00:39 GMT -5
Tucked into my mailbox today: a glossy flyer for a four-day seminar entitled "Revelation Reveals Hope" put on by one Robert M, Wagley and hosted at a local Adventist church. The descriptive text on the front? "Global terrorism, antichrist, and Armageddon. Go beyond the headlines, fear, and confusion. Discover hops for a world in crises [sic]!" The artwork is pretty incredible. It's like if you got Drew Struzan to design a poster for the Book of Revelation (fused with imagery of ISIS fighters and drones and riot-geared police). What do some of the individual seminar sessions promise to deliver? "Revelation's End-Time Antichrist: Learn the important keys for discovering the mysterious prophetic beasts of Daniel and Revelation. This powerful presentation provides the basis for unraveling the secret to one of the Bible's most important prophetic realities for today." It's a weird blend of tones (not unlike Trump, in a way), because it seems to be simultaneously pitching "The End is Nigh! The Beast is Rising!" and also "It's all going to be okay!" The back text emphasizes "Find peace and confidence for your future!" It does pique my curiosity. Not remotely enough to attend, but I wish there were some local blogger who would write up what this thing was like. I also, on Googling the presenter, see that he's been doing versions of this seminar for several years. I have no idea if he is of the ilk who claim Obama as antichrist, but I'd love to see if he's been "adjusting" his identifications of significant global events and who is what beast over his years of doing this, and if there's any awareness on his part or on the part of his audience that these kinds of prophetic interpretations seem to always be moving their own goalposts (or some other metaphor that's more accurate to what I'm trying to say). I'm guessing not really. It's a narrative of eternal improvement and refinement of the interpretation -- because last year's prophecies didn't come to pass, that just means we've attained greater clarity as to the true meaning of the images! I could go on for HOURS (or maybe even DAYS) about the Jehovah's Witnesses' and Mormons' ideas about these prophecies. It's all similar with different parties representing the beasts, and it's all bullshit that, like you said, gets updated every few years when one or more of the previous interpretations of the prophecy no longer match up. (Example - One of the JWs' MAJOR, KEY PROPHECIES is a scripture that says basically "This generation shall not pass away before Armageddon comes". They originally interpreted the generation to be people who were old enough to witness World War I, because 1914 was heavily used in their literature as the start of the End Times. Then, in the 80s, this was changed to be anyone BORN before 1914. Then in the 2000s, they actually CHANGED THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD GENERATION to mean two overlapping generations, giving them an extra 60-80 years to come up with a new story.) JWFacts Page about "Generation" |
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Post by SLOW on Sept 26, 2016 10:53:01 GMT -5
An old man standing in his doorway across the road, waving his cane and kind of shouting/making a sound to attract my attention. I was in a hurry, and this isn't a good way of attracting my attention anyway, so I just shouted 'What?' at him. He shouted, 'What day is it?' I shouted back, 'Tuesday!' He waved his cane and said, 'Thank you very much.' I went on with my day. Ha! I love this.  Yesterday I saw a hawk hovering over the hill behind my sister's house. It was very windy, and somehow it was just staying put in the air for seconds at a time, without flapping its wings. I thought it was pretty cool. My sister and her husband were unimpressed. |
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Post by SLOW on Sept 26, 2016 10:57:54 GMT -5
I went for a drive out in the country this evening, shortly before dark. Along the way I saw: a couple of beautiful old barns, a guinea strutting along beside the road, people harvesting corn and beans, dark stretches of road where the trees met overhead, a deer running across the road in front of me, two different dirt roads with signs reading "road closed during wet weather" and "road impassible during wet weather", and a bunny sitting beside the road. BUNNY! Speaking of bunnies, Floyd, please, if you happen to have that photo of you holding wee Sam, or remember where it was posted here, I need to show it to somebody to bolster my case that bunnies are cuter than kittens. |
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Sept 26, 2016 11:18:10 GMT -5
I went for a drive out in the country this evening, shortly before dark. Along the way I saw: a couple of beautiful old barns, a guinea strutting along beside the road, people harvesting corn and beans, dark stretches of road where the trees met overhead, a deer running across the road in front of me, two different dirt roads with signs reading "road closed during wet weather" and "road impassible during wet weather", and a bunny sitting beside the road. BUNNY! Speaking of bunnies, Floyd, please, if you happen to have that photo of you holding wee Sam, or remember where it was posted here, I need to show it to somebody to bolster my case that bunnies are cuter than kittens. That's impossible. Show your math! |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 26, 2016 14:01:55 GMT -5
Discover hops for a world in crises [sic]!" OTOH I've heard their End Times IPA received excellent scores on BeerAdvocate.com |
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Post by moimoi on Sept 26, 2016 14:15:15 GMT -5
I went for a drive out in the country this evening, shortly before dark. Along the way I saw: a couple of beautiful old barns, a guinea strutting along beside the road, people harvesting corn and beans, dark stretches of road where the trees met overhead, a deer running across the road in front of me, two different dirt roads with signs reading "road closed during wet weather" and "road impassible during wet weather", and a bunny sitting beside the road. BUNNY! Speaking of bunnies, Floyd, please, if you happen to have that photo of you holding wee Sam, or remember where it was posted here, I need to show it to somebody to bolster my case that bunnies are cuter than kittens. bunmoi approves  EDIT: Oh, and I've added a poll so silly buns can attempt to make her case. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 26, 2016 15:10:25 GMT -5
Yesterday, while I was out yard sailing and running errands, I got a behind-the-scenes tour of a local county museum, which is located in a former county courthouse. I got to see the architecture of the 1850's building, and some of the restoration work going on. I only got to see a few artifacts not yet on display, because many of them are not in the building yet, due to the ongoing renovations. The few I did see were interesting, such as a "Lincoln rocking chair", so named because it was copied from the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot. (Apparently these reproductions were popular in the late 1860's.) The story I was told at the museum was that chair I saw survived the great Chicago fire because the owners buried it in the back yard as the fire approached their house. The house and other furnishings were lost, but they dug up the chair intact. We were shocked, when touring U.S. Grant’s house in Galena, that he had the same exact antique table we got from my grandmother, which we knew she picked up as an antique somewhere in the Chicago or north-of-Chicago area in the 1940s or 50s. |
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Sept 26, 2016 15:18:18 GMT -5
We were shocked, when touring U.S. Grant’s house in Galena, that he had the same exact antique table we got from my grandmother, which we knew she picked up as an antique somewhere in the Chicago or north-of-Chicago area in the 1940s or 50s. I'm kind of shocked that there was a piece of antique furniture in Chicago during that time period that wasn't purchased by my grandmother. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 26, 2016 15:26:39 GMT -5
Buon Funerale Amigos My grandmother was good at grabbing and holding onto things, including my uncle—my great-aunt actually tried to steal him away because he was the first of our family born in the US and she didn’t think my grandmother was mature enough to take care of him.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 26, 2016 16:31:19 GMT -5
Yesterday, while I was out yard sailing and running errands, I got a behind-the-scenes tour of a local county museum, which is located in a former county courthouse. I got to see the architecture of the 1850's building, and some of the restoration work going on. I only got to see a few artifacts not yet on display, because many of them are not in the building yet, due to the ongoing renovations. The few I did see were interesting, such as a "Lincoln rocking chair", so named because it was copied from the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot. (Apparently these reproductions were popular in the late 1860's.) The story I was told at the museum was that chair I saw survived the great Chicago fire because the owners buried it in the back yard as the fire approached their house. The house and other furnishings were lost, but they dug up the chair intact. We were shocked, when touring U.S. Grant’s house in Galena, that he had the same exact antique table we got from my grandmother, which we knew she picked up as an antique somewhere in the Chicago or north-of-Chicago area in the 1940s or 50s. I don't remember where I saw this as a kid (I think it might have been in a Philadelphia museum, possibly the Children's Museum), but included in the bric-a-brac of displays was a cigar butt that a kid had retrieved after Grant threw it on the ground. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 26, 2016 17:27:50 GMT -5
I went for a drive out in the country this evening, shortly before dark. Along the way I saw: a couple of beautiful old barns, a guinea strutting along beside the road, people harvesting corn and beans, dark stretches of road where the trees met overhead, a deer running across the road in front of me, two different dirt roads with signs reading "road closed during wet weather" and "road impassible during wet weather", and a bunny sitting beside the road. BUNNY! Speaking of bunnies, Floyd, please, if you happen to have that photo of you holding wee Sam, or remember where it was posted here, I need to show it to somebody to bolster my case that bunnies are cuter than kittens. I PM'ed you links to a couple of pictures of Sammy |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 26, 2016 17:48:45 GMT -5
Two women waiting with a stroller to cross the crosswalk to a bus stop. And about half a dozen cars going the opposite direction from mine driving right through the crosswalk without stopping. And then another car doing the same thing after I had already stopped to let them cross. I can get occasionally making a mistake and not noticing a pedestrian waiting to cross a crosswalk until it's too late every once in a while, but I can't buy that this happened to half a dozen cars in a row and then to another car who saw my car coming to a stop for what was clearly the express purpose of stopping for people waiting to cross at a crosswalk.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 26, 2016 19:21:42 GMT -5
I saw this again yesterday. Out in the country, on sparsely traveled roads, it's not all that uncommon to come to an intersection with no stop signs in any direction.
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Post by ganews on Sept 26, 2016 19:43:54 GMT -5
Two women waiting with a stroller to cross the crosswalk to a bus stop. And about half a dozen cars going the opposite direction from mine driving right through the crosswalk without stopping. And then another car doing the same thing after I had already stopped to let them cross. I can get occasionally making a mistake and not noticing a pedestrian waiting to cross a crosswalk until it's too late every once in a while, but I can't buy that this happened to half a dozen cars in a row and then to another car who saw my car coming to a stop for what was clearly the express purpose of stopping for people waiting to cross at a crosswalk. Constantly, constantly. When I'm at a crosswalk on my handcycle and cars stop for me, I always have to be cautious of the second, hidden lane. Just this past Sunday I was doing exactly that. Cars were lined up at a red light, and the near one left enough gap for me to pull through the crosswalk. I paused in front of it, my front tire inching beyond the bumper so I could peek into the lane beyond. Sure enough, a Jeep came up close and blared its horn at me. But people are just terrible, what can you do? In the past month on my regular bicycle heading home from work I've had an ice-filled cup thrown at me (while I was pedaling down an empty sidewalk to an otherwise empty road, the better not to antagonize drivers with my mere presence) and been yelled at out of nowhere (by the guy who was waiting in line at the red light behind me and another car). |
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