How confusing, just seen a book 'Ventriloquism for Dummies'.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Funny. And yet, I would bet one exists.

‘Mad’ Magazine Cartoonist Mort Drucker Dead at 91 [rollingstone.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Loved his stuff. Loved Mad Magazine.

Some atheism quotes I ran across just now.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Leo was a dick. I know they are were, and I rechecked to see, and yep he, Leo, was under Charlemagne.

I was raised as a Christian and only recently became an atheist.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

My eldest went to xtion church. I was a long time non xtion believer, yet got roped into teaching adult Sunday school - I taught ethics. It was my ex-bro-in-law church. Finally my ex caught up with me and we left. Did the Unitarians for years and still find them a pretty good place (each group is slightly different but all seem tolerant of all thought). My kids are all grown and none consider themselves xtions, etc. Two still identify as lapsed Unitarians while one, since very early childhood, rejected all god. Anyway, best wishes on your journey.

Melania is honest!

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Right now may be her chance, poison the bastard and oust his older slime and take it all for her baby. Long live the queen. That is her dream no doubt.

The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done, Woody Guthrie [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

A great song. Even has relevance today. He had confidence that united little little guys could defeat fascists. Let us hope they haven't fractured those ties too much.

Another groaner

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Every kid needs a smart dog. It took me years for me to realize that when my baby sitter let me outside to play alone at 4-5 with her border collie that the dog would follow me around and not allow me to leave the property by pushing me in another direction. I was herded.

Memes... Incoming!

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Another fun batch. I'm sure the secret service is just in the WTF mode at the moment.

Townes Van Zandt - Big Country Blues [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Great musician.

[catholic.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

If I had to pick a saint, I am partial to St. Dymphna. Saint Dymphna is the patroness of those suffering nervous and mental afflictions as well as victims of incest. Her father was an Irish war lord and her mother died. When she grew up she looked so much like her mother that her father decided to marry her. She ran away to what is now Belgium. He caught up with her. She spent too much of her money on building a hospital and such and he had her tracked. Had her head cut off. https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=222

Great stuff:::: [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Good stories. I have to say this..... Look at Seth's eyes. He looks lit up on some sort of stimulant.

Just be careful because people are going crazy from being in lock down! Actually I've just been ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.

Sound of Silence...Covid19 version. [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Third time this song got posted somewhere today. 4th time I heard it - great song and great cover.

[agnostic.com] [babylonbee.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Say a little more, like the title of the one article for context of humor - 92 percent of xtions get their theology from bumper stickers.

Adult supervision

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

My guess is none were his kids. Then again, look at the age of the cars on the right.

I’m off to bed again.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

New to me. Nice ballad.

[vice.com] These 30 regimes are using Covid-19 to repress their citizens.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Most were already pretty bad. Duarte told his police and soldier in the Philippines to shoot those violating curfews.

Does anyone know who this band is?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Not my forte. Some resemblance to Warrant, but, don't see that particular photo so most likely not. Try posting on FB and see if their facial recognition can ID them.

Groaner alert again

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

I liked one of the replies. If people are stocking up on cheese and bread why are they hoarding toilet paper as they are going to be really backed up.

A good read about Trump's many mistakes.... [theatlantic.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

I am about to read, but want to say first, "Wow, The Atlantic put out an entire issue filled with them." I know.

The circle of Life requires some friction between children & parents.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

That is a deeper issue than a one off. Seems there is more than a haircut - although depending on "how" the father forced him - threats or violence can have lasting effects. That is something he should deal with in a total over view, and if you aren't a pro, I say let him go.... Sorry, but that rhymed. Anyway, I would suggest he find a therapist to whom he could talk.

Do you have a better-half like this?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

I had that ex. She broke into my account after separating - never use mother's maiden name. As an English major I have plenty of "favorite" and obscure characters from which to choose.

Experts Recommend Disinfecting Television After Trump Has Been On | The New Yorker

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

I am not sure if even the military has anything strong enough to kill the orange menace.

My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

She should have asked what friend.

Officials Charging People Who Deliberately Cough on Others With Terrorism As reports from all ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

People are being arrested. A lady here in Pennsylvania finally got caught after the store had to throw away 30k worth of produce.

I'M TELLING YOU NOW - FREDDY AND THE DREAMERS . Remember this 'Merseybeat' from Manchester?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Remember when they added their own dance - Do the Freddy?

Bruce Springsteen - Lift Me Up [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 9, 2020:

A different style for his singing voice.

Discombobulated confused and disconcerted

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

One of the teachers with whom I worked used that word constantly. Pretty sure some students learned it.

Stay safe my friends

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

Good one. For what ever reason that reminded me of a story. I used to teach with a woman from Spain. She told me she was at her son's soccer match and started yelling at him to "focus." It took her a little while, and some strange looks to realize her focus, due to her accent sounded like fuck us.

The truth comes out, literally.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

I can hear the Laugh-in da da da de de da.

I know how Smashing Pumpkins got the album name "Bullets with butterfly wings" Lots of butterflies ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

I always rode with a face shield. Took a cicada to it once at about 45 and thought a small bird hit me. Left a smashed gooey mess.

Tonight. - Tina Turner with David Bowie. Live. [youtu.be]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

They were great together.

Is your city in a lockdown?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

The scary thing is some of those photos are definitely NOT photo shopped.

Quarantine Times I.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

Good ones. If I had been having a drink when I read the chloroform, it would have gone through my nose.

RIP John Prine: "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

That is a great song. Love his stuff. Very sad news.

Old ad...🙂

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 8, 2020:

When I was a kid I would have looked away from such an ad as i insisted on only chocolate cake and icing for me. Lol.

COVID-19: Quebec Prime Minister declares the Tooth Fairy immune to the coronavirus and a ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

When, if, this ends, we need a Cinco de Mayo, St Paddys day, Easter extravaganza party with beer hunts and pinatas and chocolate shooters.

COVID-19: Quebec Prime Minister declares the Tooth Fairy immune to the coronavirus and a ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

The New Zealand PM started all this.

Here’s my conundrum about Easter and Passover.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Biblical "scholars" vary from the evangelicals who don't even understand through the Catholics who jave a more pragmatic approach, now - often to the academics that are more secular. The new testament replaced and overrides the old, thus it is ok to eat pork and other shit and one is supposed to love his neighbor, but hypocrites just hate so they hate gays and read from Leviticus while enjoying barbeque. From a secular stand point the bibly was put together and codified in the 300's. It is mostly the evangelicals who purport the myth of infallibility of the new testament. They are no different from muslims who say the same about the koran, which ironically is still in its original language, albeit, it, too, has been found to have alterations over time and was mostly set by the Ottomans - there really were verses removed that were called the same as Rusdies' book The Satanic Verses.

[rawstory.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Agree. Ads should smash the orange turd on the virus with his recorded statements and then his lies later.

It isn't the same!

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

That's how the Amish do it all the time.

Tidbits of information we really needed to know...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Dolphins commit rape. They often beat up on and rape their cousins porpoises.

Quarantine Times II.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Great ones. Tnx.

This was the Whatsapp in my school days!

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

When I would catch a kid passing a note I would ask for it. After a while they caught on. If they gave it to me, I tore it up without ever looking, if they refused I gave a detention, I was evil. LOL. They were afraid I would read their shit; I was not that guy, as I didn't like embarrassing kids or getting involved in their drama.

Where Do You Think You're Going - Dire Straits [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

They made excellent music. Another band with brothers that turned to anger or hatred.

[youtu.be] Chris Rea. - Two Roads....love this guy’s voice..I’d follow it down any road!

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Two roads diverged.......

Roy Orbison - It's Over 1964 [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Always a great voice. And, look at those Evis chops he was sporting.

Meanwhile in Japan.....

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

https://youtu.be/myqSETD5_bs

Getting Old.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Those were too true in places, as I creak badly this morning after a huge grocery run. Last one was over two weeks ago and I want this one to last longer. Gloves, mask, hat, sweatshirt, ugh.

It's not what you think.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

That is sooo wrong

Sweet memories

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

I think you need to crop that before you get home.

I'm So Tired Of It All · Orquestra Was [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

I like him. I didn't know him, but the song sounded so familiar so I looked him up. A Hank Williams tune, ah.

Oops problem

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Like the cops wouldn't have their guns drawn on a bunch of Arab looking guys.

This seems disturbingly relevant. [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Trumpers at a rally

The Americans defying Palm Sunday quarantines: "Satan's trying to keep us apart"

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

The best xtion cartoon I have seen published on this issue is a guy saying gaud will protect me, ends up in a hospital bed and asks, why gaud. Then gaud looks down from the sky and says I gave you soap and hand sanitizer and masks.............. A couple ways to look at that, gaud isn't personally keeping you safe, or gaud always provides b.s. like always.

What is the craziest church experience that you've been in?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I went to a tent revival. Crying and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Total fubar at 16. How, you may ask did I, an almost intelligent non christian end up there. Easy, I had gone to a friend's house to see him. He wasn't home, but his really cute, actually, pretty hot, cousin who i had never met was. My friend's folks invited me to a "church thing" at some camp an hours drive away. The girl asked me to go so she could have someone of age to speak with. I went. At first, the camp wasn't all too awful and we drifted off into the woods. Had to come back for the tent meeting a couple hours later. That sucked and the girl became one of the crying, sobbing masses. I was worried she might tell her uncle and aunt what we were up to.

Highest rates of Unemployment projected since the great depression Are you or somebody close to you ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I'm not affected. My oldest son's entire work went on partial unemployment including salaried folks like him. He is social work, so once this settles he will most likely be back to doing lots of overtime - that company pays salaried people overtime. My other son is teaching online for Penn State. And, my daughter is waiting to see if a furlough comes as she works for an airline - for her, once things would settle she would be back at work. None are married or have kids, so they actually have money. My daughter and her roommate have a side business but I doubt that is selling much currently.

Cats again, yes. But this one is special. [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I did not know of this cat. I knew the large Jaguar went into the water and fished occasionally. I also knew of the small desert cat, actually written about by Muhammad, that lives in the desert and kills deadly snakes for food.

Actual picture of a 'Rona: 😱

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I think that was the bad guy in The Banana Splits Show.

Dog owners! (Hope you know Titania Mcgrath...)

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Most are fixed anyway. Side joke - an old lady discovers a mysterious lamp in a trunk once owned by her late husband who had died 70 years before in war. Grief had kept her from opening the trunk, until one day she thought she had such little time left in life that she would explore its contents. On top, once opened, she spied an old brass oil lamp. While rubbing it in order to read an inscription smoke started to rise from the lamp and swirl about the room. She dropped the lamp and stood up to escape only to be confronted by a large man in strange attire. He said he was the Genie of the lamp and would grant her three wishes. She thought for a moment then asked, "I want to be young and beautiful again." Poof she was. "Wowza. Now I want to be fabulously wealthy with land and money without end." Poof again. For her third wish she paused. She looked at her old, graying tom cat and said, "Make Tom a handsome Prince for me to marry." Poof, it happened and the Genie and the lamp vanished. The lady was standing in her magnificent house just looking around when Tom broke the silence to say, "I bet you wish you hadn't neutered me now."

Christopher Titus [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

He has also been releasing his old show and specials. He is right on.

Bob Dylan - Sara [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

That is a great song from one of my favorite albums.

An idea to score

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

What if a guy turns around? From work?

The River of Dreams, Billy Joel [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

A good song and good album.

Looks like Wells Fargo is doing more to help americans than the president.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I would not trust Wells Fargo - they have fucked more people than "Carter has liver pills" (old saying), especially in the 2008 financial crisis.

Tiger at Bronyx Zoo tests positive for covid19 [abcnews.go.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I heard that. I looked and saw multiple, trustworthy sources. Let us see what else they find. They debunked a report out of China a while back about a pet having it. The way things are going it will most likely prove to not be an outlier and be something else to worry about.

I just turned 47.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Sometimes one needs to redefine success and failure while working through this thing called life. For most, it is a struggle, at least at sometime. For many, if not most, it is a continual struggle. Best wishes in your struggle.

Memes for Monday....

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Again you make us laugh. Tnx.

Portland, Oregon, no explanation needed. [facebook.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 6, 2020:

He is social distancing

A good explanation of why TP shortages happen.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I remember. Johnny came back a day, or two, later to say stop it, it was a joke.

Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I love how he wrote on his guitar, "This machine kills fascists."

Coronavirus will likely hit these states hardest financially, according to Moody's Lots of people...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

My little town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania has a curfew now - 11pm to 530am. But, the meters are free; and man, we have them EVERYWHERE, sort of. It is a pain to park here. Luckily I have a spot and can walk a lot.

Mean Mary on fast banjo - Iron Horse [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Most excellent. I have this on my saved videos.

What day is it today?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I keep forgetting that it is palm your face sunday. Where I used to live, we would get a parade from a church a few blocks down with about 40 plus people walking up the street singing and waving palm leaves. Still, not as bad as the asshole catholics across the street that tended to park in my driveway during snow storms.

Need tp for bunghole.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Today's home school art class is finger painting.

When I Die, Just Let Me Go To Texas · Ed Bruce [youtube.com]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

For some, that would be a form of Hell.

Religion, like science, does ask "Why", so all the bible basher's who get Covid-19 can say "Why me ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Why bibly bashers asking? Why not bibly believers asking?

That’s where I went wrong - The Poppy Family - [youtu.be]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I didn't recognize the song or band. Sounds vaguely familiar.

Trump Fires Inspector General Who Handled Impeachment Complaint In what critics say is ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I expect nothing less at this point.

Some memes....

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

I want to be a Yogi, but my lady friend is in Chicago.

A Texas restroom?...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Texas, one of the few states to allow guns in bars, drivers can have one open container, and the cops can walk into a bar, and do, to arrest drunks - even the cops are crazies.

A raging example of why I've had quite enough of all this religious BS.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

My Sister forbids her born again minister husband and I to talk religion. That works pretty good.

What happens with health insurance if furloughed?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

It will vary by companies. By law, you must be allowed to purchase it yourself - at fucking high rates.

Some drink

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Looks good except I can not drink vodka. Long story which I only know what I was told. Other alcohol is fine. 😁

For those cooped up, let us all join Freddy and his band mates. [youtu.be]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Trivia from IMDB on the Video. Items about Freddy's illness are sad to remember. Freddie Mercury was very ill with AIDS while filming the video, but never the less took any opportunity to be creatively involved in it, including co-directing some of the scenes and storyboarding the video. It was the last time he had any creative input in the video due to his declining health. Freddie Mercury based the song and the video on his experiences of AIDS-induced dementia. An urban legend says that Elton John portrays a man in the gorilla suit in the video but this has been denied by Freddie Mercury's personal assistant Peter Freestone. Brian May had previously worn a penguin suit for a photo shoot for Queen's eponymous first album in 1973. Freddie Mercury's thick make-up was put to conceal the blotches on his face caused by AIDS. Moreover the wig and extra layer of clothing were the attempt to hide an enormous weight loss also induced by illness. The song features a slide guitar solo performed by Brian May. John Deacon's bass is tuned down to a low B. The single cover was inspired by a Grandville illustration. The music video was filmed in February 1991 at Limehouse Studios.

Some drink

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Darn, I don't drink vodka.

Chumbawamba tubthumping

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Keep getting up again.

DACNOMANIA.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

I tried. I really tried to be friends with Genghis; he was simply too controlled by his dracnomania.

If a person is closer than 2 metres away from you and they cough this is called a near cough.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

I noticed a new meme popping up on some FB feeds that used to be "it's a Democrat hoax" showing someone punching coughers.

Can’t get to the gym.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Very nostalgic. No gym here either. My small town now has a curfew from 11pm to 530am.

Neil Diamond acoustic version of Sweet Caroline for covid-19 ''hands washing hands''.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

The old guy being the cool Neil Diamond, not the Vegas one.

One of my favorites from this week: AMERICA: Oh my god! Coronavirus! What should we do?

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

PA was an early closer, mostly. We have some idiots, but a Democrat for a governor. The Southern states are the worse. Georgia said they thought someone without symptoms couldnt spread it.

Common mistake

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Jimmy Carr does a joke about having sex with twins and ends it with them being brother and sister.

Mike Huckabee Claims COVID-19 Death Risk Small and Sin Risk Lethal Former Republican ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Another asshole idiot hypocrite who hangs out with a guy who has admitted to having sex with underage girls - teddy bear nugent

Oops not right

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Ill take nothing over a vacuum. Ouch.

100 years Blues Traveller [youtu.be]

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 3, 2020:

John Popper is one of my oldest son's heroes. He plays harmonica and keyboard. When he can he does some band work - not much the last few years with "real" work getting in the way.

Apparently one of the symptoms of the virus is the loss of taste.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 3, 2020:

I always add lots of pepper. If I don't notice, then I'll know.

Another fabulous musician lost to the Covid-19 virus died in France recently.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 3, 2020:

video not available i have this on my liked videos https://youtu.be/o0CeFX6E2yI

We all Live in a Self Quarantine!!!!! - Ringo and Paul could rewrite the song and make a ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Post that on the outside of your doors. I love it. Too bad my printer is out of ink.

Horror Tales????

Beowulfsfriend comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Most of the old tales are pretty vicious stuff. In grad school, my Reading prof read us one of the earliest versions of Little Red Riding Hood from the French around 1300. In that one, she gets naked and into bed with the wolf before realizing it isn't grandma. She escapes and runs home with some trickery. Once home, her parents condemn her and throw her out into the street as she has brought shame onto the family. The moral there was better dead than to shame one's family.