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hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.
It's far too late for this year, but I recently discovered a source for the ideal raw material for the only Halloween decoration I've...
Oct 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.
That just sounds like adding insult to injury!
Oct 23, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread It's getting serious.
I already decided that I had no reason to set foot in a Disney theme park this year. One of the reasons was the ticket price; another...
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hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.
Over a decade later, an entirely different allergist ran me through an apparently experimental testing procedure (that never did, so far...
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hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.
I'm reminded of a Sandra Boynton cartoon, from her book, Chocolate: The Consuming Passion. It seems that a typical Boynton hippopotamus,...
Oct 1, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.
I think I must have told you about what happened when I bought "Millie," didn't I? I told them a substantial down payment, "balance on...
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hbquikcomjamesl liked iamsally's post in the thread It's getting serious.
We haven't watched late night TV in a long time. I do watch selected clips on YouTube. We watch Jeopardy and Ghosts. I do watch reruns...
Sep 23, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread It's getting serious.
Ah, but (to title-drop a George Lakoff book) Whose Freedom? When Trump talked about restoring freedom of speech, he obviously meant...
Sep 23, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread It's getting serious.
When I was looking up the commercial I linked to, I also found a rant from some nutjob claiming to prefer "Pain in the Night." As far...
Sep 22, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread It's getting serious.
Hmm. Kimmel back. It would seem that The Walt Disney Company found its <censored> I wonder if they turned up in this vault.
Sep 22, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl liked Dabob2's post in the thread It's getting serious.
Dang, I thought the boards were down for good! Haven't even looked in ages. I have to say that as scary as things seem sometimes,...
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hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread Oh what a birthday surprise!.
Next Tuesday evening is my last Hollywood Bowl concert of the summer. Dvořák's cello concerto (Alisa Weilerstein is the featured...
Sep 5, 2025 -
hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.
On that trip to Canada, I discovered, too late to do anything about it, that all Canadian carriers had dropped support for the protocols...
Aug 28, 2025