This vehicle is reversing. || Downside detected. || Big spider. || Squid roll. || Satie on a bondoneon. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || There was, alas, some screaming. || Compatible skillsets. || Crossing of note. || “We did not come here to coexist.” || “And I’m still laughing,” says she. || The thrill of wrapping. || The progressive retail experience, parts 736, 737, 738, 739 and 740. || The pram of the future, 1971. || ‘Twas an uncanny transformation. || A museum of antique tubas – and other niche museums. || Bow ties. || Turbulence of note. || Beware the brown acid. || Suboptimal solution. || Balloon turkey, balloon wombat. || Blockage fondled. || Peak twat fashion. || So how was the funeral? || I question the footwear. || Firearms. || Feeling his chunkiness. || I feel we ought to have a word for this.
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See? Buttons.
Intricate.
Why not? It was likely responsible.
No.
You, however, seem suspiciously familiar with the ‘side effects’.
Oh, and Happy Thing to you heathens in the colonies.
Many thanks, O Gracious Host.
Am planning to celebrate unabashedly today – and when I am back on a secure connection, will check the couch and truck to see if there’s enough coinage to fling your way.
One thing I am learning on my budget adventures is that I am not missing out much by not having cable or any subscription TV service at home. There is apparently a new show called This is Poly or some such, and based on the ads for it, it is exactly as you’d expect. There’s the same type of Poly that has featured here, many time, with all the associated nauseating “drama”. But because we must have Diversities, there’s also the African King and His Harem of Queens version of Poly, which seems to kinda go against the definition of Poly from the Alphabet Soup crowd.
Your host endorses these fine sentiments.
[ Flicks through catalogue of ivory canes. ]
All well and good as long as you don’t go outside with it, you are likely to be nicked for potentially causing a disturbance somewhere, somehow, sometime, maybe.
Portrait of George Washington Giving a Vocabulary Lesson:
If Poly doesn’t want a cracker then I’m not interested.
“Heathens”, maybe, but at least you got the statue of George back.
Portrait of George Washington Giving a Vocabulary Lesson: