TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
JUST THE BOYZ BEING NOBLE...
ON this date in 1890 - Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced. Recent Mormon converts, Bun Man and Mr. Purple, were suddenly feeling significant angst as they both had 8 wives at the time.
The Boyz struck a deal w/ Woodruff and became French Mormons, so they kept a main wife and the other 7 became mistresses.
The Boyz always said they did this to avoid their women's heartbreak...SUCH A NOBLE GESTURE.
ON this date in 1987 - The booty collected from the Wydah, which sunk off Cape Cod in 1717, was auctioned off.
The worth was around $400 million.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple have this incredulous look on their face.
Bun said, "I've paid some big bucks for booty before but never that much."
I had to tell him it was a different kind...
WORK YOUR CONNECTIONS
I suddenly remembered the quote from the naturalist, John Muir, who said...
"While on a walk in the woods, reach down and pick up a stick and you'll find it is connected to all things..."
An Oldie, but a GOODIE...
A Reminder on the USA GOP's need to sort and categorize, and then eliminate.
SOMETIMES, WE DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE DESERVING
Spot: Since you went away I've been hanging around, I've been wondering why I'm feeling down
Dot: You went away, it should make me feel better, but I don't know, oh
Spot: How I'm gonna get through, baby, what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this
Dot: How I'm gonna get through, baby, what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this, how I'm gonna get through, baby
(Homage to Pet Shop Boys)
Morning Peeps,
BELIEVIN' THE SHITE THEY'RE FED
Ken-Dogger: Morning Roscoe, what are you doing?
Roscoe: Staring at a horse…
KD: A horse? That doesn’t look like a horse.
R: What do you think it is?
KD: Looks like a tulip to me…
R: Huh, I’m saying it’s a Horse.
KD: Okay, but I think you’re mistaken.
R: Hey, if peeps can believe whatever the Hell they want to, so can I…
KD: And there you have it.
“It is common for politicians obsessed with subjecting their fellow man to harsh moral rules to be the first to break them. And in the MAGA cult, it is also common for these hypocrites to not like to be called what they are. At least in public. Because in private they brag about it.”-PM
Cartoon by Pedro X. Molina for Counterpoint
A Possible Projection of the Future
The USA is a global fuckin' joke.
WELL, LOOKIE HERE
HEY CURE FANS DIG THIS
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-to-release-first-new-song-in-16-years-this-week/
Historybook: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born (1896); American astronomer Charlotte Moore Sitterly born (1898); Devils Tower in Wyoming is proclaimed the first American national monument (1906); "Muppets" creator Jim Henson born (1936).
"Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing."
- Jim Henson
Starts with two vowels
The following clues lead to words or names that have the unique characteristic of starting with two vowels. Eerie.
1. A rock band from Boston fronted by Steven Tyler
2. The Greek king of Thebes with a thing for his mother
3. Minor character in Oppenheimer who was born in Germany in 1879 and died in Princeton, NJ, in 1955
4. The largest blood vessel in your body
5. Arthur Read is one of these.
6. You might be reading the Brew through this Microsoft service.
New FBI stats show violent crime fell 3% from 2022 to 2023. Murder was down 11.6%, making it the biggest drop in 20 years.
ON this date in 1942 - After Bun Man and Mr. Purple gave an impassioned speech at the Actors Guild where they cited their reasons for canceling their daily radio broadcasts to their adoring fans, Glenn Miller ended his broadcasts for Chesterfield Cigarettes so he could go to World War II.
This was a time when all Americans supported the cause of freedom, not just those already in the military--Times have changed.
LOVE BOAT V2
ON this date in 1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV.
The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple were supposed to be among the cast but when it came to light they had photos of Lauren Tewes (Julie) in some compromising positions, the ABC geeks kicked them off the set.
The Boyz always thought the show was lame anyway.
They went back to playing cowpokes on 'Rawhide'.
ON this date in 1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV.
The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.
Originally based on 'The Life and Times of Bun Man and Mr. Purple', the show quickly became a sappy sitcom full of cheap, maudlin, and gratuitously cute 'love'.
The Boyz would have none of that and they distanced themselves from the show post haste.
10 years ago, I was in Montpelier VT on a motorcycle trip...
Lunch at Sarduccis in Montpelier...one of my fave restaurants, and
Met Bernie Sanders who was there having lunch also.
GREAT GOOGA MOOGA
L'il Wayne: People all over the world are shouting end the war and the band played on.
Jazzy J: Round and round and around we go, where the world's headed nobody knows.
L'il Wayne: Great googa mooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you, just a ball of confusion that's what the world is today
Jazzy J: Let me hear you, let me hear you, let me hear you
Ball Of Confusion that's what the world is today
(Homage to Temptations)
Environmental injustice carries the DNA of Segregation
Just read an obit where a guy was a Tennessee Titans fan and died at 57 years...
Damn, thought it would have taken him before that.
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017