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  1. 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
  2. hbquikcomjamesl replied to the thread On the lighter side.

    That just sounds like adding insult to injury!

    Oct 23, 2025
  3. 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...

    Oct 2, 2025
  4. 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...

    Oct 2, 2025
  5. 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
  6. 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...

    Sep 30, 2025
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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,...

    Sep 17, 2025
  12. 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
  13. 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