What made you smile today?

PC majority
blechhh

my riding NDP !
my hometown riding NDP !

Green leader elected in his riding !

not happy but I do live in a pocket of sanity here

New SAT student is the nearly 6 ft tall beautiful daughter of a famous college basketball player. She had substitutes in English ALL junior year—a ******* travesty! One hour, and she said it was more than she’d learned in the past two years.

We will raise her 300 points—at least!

I howled when I saw this. didn't believe it at first so went and checked it out myself

howled again

What's even funnier is listening to the talking heads complain that being snarky was unbecoming of Hillary. My jaw dropped.

I lurve this side of her. Better than being a wonkette all the time.

This one gave me a laugh.

Second 0:07 in this video

Doesn't get any better than this.

I went outside this morning to put birdseed in the feeders. There, on the ground next to one of them was ... a five dollar bill.
That was so thoughtful of the birds.

My siblings and our better halfs had lunch today in Dublin. We do this about twice a year. There are seven in our group. We get to learn about how our nephews and nieces are doing and how some of our friends are doing. Our sister has friends who are in the mid 90's. It's perhaps time to have them more times per year at our increasing age.

Definitely better than what the birds leave for me.

thinking about a friend

find this very adult take on a wonderful song




oh yes
I'm smiling

When tourists get stuck in an elevator in Lisbon, Portugal, they called the Lisbon Police. The problem is they called Lisbon, Maine. Fortunately for them the dispatcher in Maine took the time to help them. Source

set and I play an online rpg.

his account needed an alter to attack some dweeb who'd attacked another account

I was in his alter account. trying to post as set pretending to be someone else is very entertaining. our styles aren't exactly the same

why not try gardening?? You get fresh fruits and vegetables and if they offend, you COOK ZEM!!

rocket powered grenade??? are you guys doing omething that you shouldnt?

Thanks for sharing that Ella Fitzgerald song. She used to be one of my favorite singers in my youth, and have some of her records someplace in this house.

I cracked open an egg and to my gleeful surprise, there were 2 yolks inside! It's been awhile since I last saw such.

realized we were almost out of dog food last night
ran down the street to the grocery store where they carry Bella's tiny dog dog food
a friend of mine was on cash, working til 10 p.m.
waited a few minutes for her then we went to a Chinese resto on the Danforth. used to be a classic Chinese-Canadian place. new owners so a bit more Indo-Chinese menu
had some pretty good Manchurian fish with rice and perfectly prepared bok choy
good time chatting with my friend
then dragged the dog food and other stuff home

the downside? so revved up from latenight (for me) socializing that I couldn't get to sleep til close to 2 a.m.

On Wednesday of this week a guy who lives near the state line had a "family" cookout.
It was raining a lot the last few days and his party day was no different. So,, he analyzes that an outdoor barbecue doesnt work too well in the rain so he figures " why not barbecue in the basement and set up the whole grill next to the open Bilco door , that way he'll have easy access to the in and the out.
ITEM 1."WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG??"

Hes cookin away on his grill and its loaded with burgers and ribs.I guess he had too much stuff on the grill cause it flared up and started belching flame out the side (I guess it was charcoal which as anyone with half a brain knows is the BEST for imparting that burnt flesh grilling flavor to meats.

Well, He tries to put out the flare up and discovers that, in setting up his big SMOKEY (tm) hes blocked the doorway with this massive grill which has a chimney that could start a fire in his basement(especially when the dam thing is flaming and smoking like a rocket nozzle). The doorway and his special OSB siding around the doorway is quickly engulfed in flame. SO, he does what any real man would do, DUMP THE WHOLE THING OUT ON TH BASEMENT FLOOR. Now this woulda worked well if it wasnt for the kerosene cans in which he stores his winter fuel. He had at least on can topped up with kero.
NOW WHERE WAS EVERYBODY ELSA YOU MAY ASK??? The folks he invited to his cookout? (These were his biker buddies-we have a lot of bikers and klansmen that have these summer homes down by te Mason Dixon)
Well, as I undertand,,Everyone that were earlier in the house were down by his pond either fishing , drinking or firing his collction of automatic weapons in the rain so he was sorta
all on his own with his flaming burgers and beef .
Fortunately a passing AMish man in his buggy, who HAS A CELL PHONE calls the fire company.

Fire company gets there and puts the fire out using a big field sprayer that sits atop their pumper truck like a rocket launcher.

This guy is actually known to the "system" because he had his house catch fire twice before over the years as he started fires by engaging his wood stove when his chimney was poked through his OSB framed
house covered by this plastic siding .
His insurance company first jacked up his premiums and then later cancelled him after he refused to do the stuff the insurance adjuster required him to to make his house less "fire friendly".
I think the primary fire friendly thing at that house is him.

It ended with some more good stories about this yahoo. Noone was hurt and yesterday he began reframing his basement "Bilco door" with what looked like 2X4's.

For all other concerns, refer back to item 1. above.