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| First article in my Cyber/Online Safety and Security recommendations posted. "Top Security Tips- Physical"  |
| So, after I laughed when watching this for the first time; I can't decide whether this is somehow faked or this squirrel somehow has a level of self-awareness and cunning that would make an average teenager look dumb. What are your thoughts? Was this something the owner trained the animal to do or is it really how it appears? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f75Vet_sJNo |
| Requesting laughs today. Funny little jokes or things that make you smile? |
| A few from the Scottish comedian Chic Murray: After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn’t wash my Y-fronts for a month. I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. “What do you want?”, she asked. “I want to stay here”, I replied. “Well, stay there then”, she said and closed the window. When staying at a Rothesay hotel, there were the usual toast and marmalade (in little round pots) on the breakfast table in the morning. When the landlady came into the room, I lifted a tiny pot of honey and said "I see you keep a bee." I had a tragic childhood. My parents never understood me. They were Japanese. I got up this morning. I like to get up in the morning; it gives me the rest of the day to myself. We’ve got stained glass windows in our house; it’s those damned pigeons. So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked ‘”What’s the matter? Did you fall over?” So I said “No. I’ve a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it.” This chap said to me, "If you look over there, you'll see Dumbarton Rock". Well, I looked for 20 minutes and the thing never moved an inch. I knocked and the woman opened the door in her night dress. I thought to myself at the time what a strange place to have a door. |
| And a few by the English comedian Les Dawson: I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, Six should be enough." We were so poor we couldn't afford a bidet. We had to do handstands in the shower. I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite. The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.' There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred? My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked. My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in. |
| Thanks again for the wonderful laughs. I've reread the jokes a few times now to get some smiles. Much appreciated for the awesome and quick response. |
| Meeting with editor on Friday to go over the book. Simultaneously excited and terrified. LOL |
| Just got back from a delightful afternoon at the theatre. Watched "A Christmas Story" musical adaptation. Fairly decent although I was greatly disappointed that they axed one of the funnier parts of the movie (the Chinese restaurant x-mas dinner) in lieu of a vanilla chinese take-out. Sigh. If theatre, which used to be the purview of pushing boundaries, continues to cut anything that might possibly, somewhere, to someone, be offensive, what exactly will be left? I live in a grey world- would be nice if fiction and entertainment continued to portray a gray world instead of bland, conformist vanilla. After all, satire and humor, loses its bite when there's nothing against which it's thrown. |
| Added a new short story- contest entry. Feedback always welcome. "Finan and his wolfhound Arty make a unique bargain in exchange for warmth on a cold winter's night."
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| Sipping a full-bodied old-vine zin while I watch the snow outside. A male downy woodpecker tap-tap-taps at the suet feeder as the moonlight illuminates the recent tracks from a stray cat underneath. Life's chaos goes on in dusky hues of winter grey. |
| Attempting, mostly in vain, to hide xmas presents from hubby on shared Amazon account. He tells me to archive the orders so they don't show up in the normal order view. I think that's a great idea and promptly do so. At which point I check past archived orders and discover how the dork has been hiding the myriad of previous board games he's purchased and hidden in our ever growing and WAY TOO LARGE collection. Upon confronting him with my discovery, he merely grins sheepishly and says, "Maybe?" LOL. Sigh- men! |
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