First World Problems...

The fabric of the universe has been torn!

Has this ever happened to anyone in the history of the world?

This is new territory. Nothing has prepared us for this unprecedented event.

What are the rules?

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 A nap is mine

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2025 02:01 PM (+qU29)

2 So...does that mean you get both wishes or like the opposite of both wishes?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2025 02:02 PM (t0Rmr)

3 A little early for (freaky) art thread, yes ?

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)

4 Get over it, it's a kids tale

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2025 02:03 PM (+qU29)

5 Woke up to a flooded basement. Feel like a turkey for not putting a backup in.

Posted by: DaveA at August 17, 2025 02:04 PM (FhXTo)

6 Do you like multiverses? 'cause this is how you get multiverses.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 17, 2025 02:04 PM (pIfcn)

7 You’re doing it wrong.

Only turkey wishbones should be used.

That looks like chicken. And it wasn’t dried properly anyway. Jeepers dude.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 17, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)

8
Where's "Zod?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 02:06 PM (DrcSR)

9 Happened to me years ago when I still lived home. The top part went ballistic and shot across the room zipping past my mother. I looked at my brother as we both stood there holding a headless stem. The only single time I ever saw that happen.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 17, 2025 02:06 PM (snZF9)

10 Is this what happens when you cross the streams?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 17, 2025 02:06 PM (O7YUW)

11 Maybe you shouldn't have boned the chicken.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2025 02:07 PM (1Gsou)

12 Where's "Zod?"

Rhymes with Bantom phone...

Posted by: Some Superman at August 17, 2025 02:07 PM (t0Rmr)

13 Line 'em up. Who ever's is longer wins. It has always been so.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at August 17, 2025 02:08 PM (gSTJh)

14
Just burn your house down and start over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:09 PM (kkTda)

15

What this country needs is a good Sunday morning beejer!

Posted by: And dinning at the Y... at August 17, 2025 02:09 PM (tb4LP)

16 FWP

My new burr coffee grinder and stainless steel French press are going to be delivered BEFORE my custom roasted Sumatran coffee beans even get here.

All is lost...]/i]

Posted by: Don Black at August 17, 2025 02:10 PM (AOsQT)

17 This really is when both people that enabled this abomination have to actually light their hair on fire.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 17, 2025 02:10 PM (g8Ew8)

18
Somehow that looks horribly brutal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2025 02:12 PM (ny95y)

19 and formatting fail

I think my eyeballs have spoiled

Posted by: Don Black at August 17, 2025 02:12 PM (AOsQT)

20 It means that there are no more wishes forevermore. If you want something in the future, you have to go out and get a job and save money n shit. Same way we did it before we had turkeys and chickens and shooting stars...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 17, 2025 02:12 PM (8P/xB)

21
Driving to church between 5:00 and 6:00 Sunday morning, there isn't as much traffic, but what is there is dangerous.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:12 PM (kkTda)

22 The rules are that the raiser of poultry has to add a better calcium supplement into the feed.

Posted by: Orson at August 17, 2025 02:13 PM (dIske)

23

Oh great, now you started the 430am cunts' new timeline

Posted by: imp at August 17, 2025 02:13 PM (g6TN6)

24

Wow, that was a rough one...

Posted by: Chicken Fucker at August 17, 2025 02:13 PM (tb4LP)

25
Your wishes will not come to pass in any case. Life is frustrated dreams, shattered ambitions, responsibility without authority and expense without reward.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:15 PM (kkTda)

26 Universal rules, according to "Lilo and Stitch", is that you both lose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 17, 2025 02:15 PM (ynpvh)

27 You are doomed! All future turkey meals will suffer from horrible gravy. This cannot be changed. Accept your fate.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 02:16 PM (2WIwB)

28
Seven years of bad luck.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:17 PM (kkTda)

29 "The fabric of the universe has been torn!"

That sounds bad.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:17 PM (pxUkb)

30 the raiser of poultry has to add a better calcium supplement into the feed.
Posted by: Orson

Look at Mr Science over here! It means both of the people have to rub a one-legged midget's stump, or the cow's milk will turn blue

Posted by: imp at August 17, 2025 02:18 PM (g6TN6)

31 What if it doesn't break? No matter how hard you tug on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2025 02:19 PM (Q4IgG)

32 "The fabric of the universe has been torn!"

That sounds bad.

Posted by: Reforger

=====

"We're envisioning new possibilities!"

Posted by: Drones in Corporate HR at August 17, 2025 02:19 PM (8AONa)

33
This had better be the last hot day for us. I've had it with this Summer shit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 02:20 PM (P9BPD)

34 31 What if it doesn't break? No matter how hard you tug on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2025 02:19 PM (Q4IgG)

You didn't leave it in the window long enough.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:20 PM (pxUkb)

35 This had better be the last hot day for us. I've had it with this Summer shit.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 02:20 PM (P9BPD)

*looks at calendar*

*snorts heartily*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2025 02:22 PM (vYDwg)

36 "The fabric of the universe has been torn!"

That sounds bad.
Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:17 PM (pxUkb)

Meh. It keeps the cosmic tailors in business.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2025 02:23 PM (vYDwg)

37
*looks at calendar*

*snorts heartily*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2025 02:22 PM (vYDwg)

_________

It's usually October before lows get into the 60s.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:23 PM (kkTda)

38 Six more weeks of winter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2025 02:23 PM (0dq7l)

39 CBD, I think you get two wishes, but it's ironic, like in a Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2025 02:24 PM (fuKxX)

40 I believe a duel to the death is the only solution.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 17, 2025 02:24 PM (7xrfc)

41 It's Shroedinger's wishbone!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2025 02:25 PM (vYDwg)

42 Short nap over

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2025 02:26 PM (+qU29)

43 A joke for Skip who has the very interesting hobby of doing model recreations of historical battles-I think mainly Napoleonic ones (?)

They should change the name of wishbone to Napoleon , because you pull you pull the Bonaparte.

I can do some puns but this one was taken from the net. I liked it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2025 02:26 PM (2GCMq)

44 > This had better be the last hot day for us. I've had it with this Summer shit.
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Today was supposed to near 100F. It hasn't gotten out of the 80's.

Weather "forecasting" isn't about any sort of prediction. It's all about hype. Clicks. Whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2025 02:27 PM (Q4IgG)

45 Six more weeks of winter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2025 02:23 PM (0dq7l)
-

That's one side.

The other side gets Pride Month II in September.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2025 02:27 PM (5swlB)

46 Everyone's a winner!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2025 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

47 I can do some puns but this one was taken from the net. I liked it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2025 02:26 PM (2GCMq)

You're a canny curator of puns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2025 02:28 PM (vYDwg)

48 They should change the name of wishbone to Napoleon , because you pull you pull the Bonaparte.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2025 02:26 PM (2GCMq)
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C'est bone!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2025 02:28 PM (5swlB)

49
Everyone's a winner!!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2025 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

_________

But they've already had the chicken dinner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:29 PM (kkTda)

50 Cheesesteaks tonight for me

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2025 02:30 PM (+qU29)

51 Has this ever happened to anyone in the history of the world? What are the rules?

Are these really the questions I was called here to answer? Wishbones and superstitions? I'm an educated man, Lt. Caffey, but I can't speak about the breaking habits of roasted chicken bones. Maybe he had osteoporosis, or maybe he just liked breaking non-conventionally. All I know is that chicken was due to leave the pot at oh-six-hundred. Now these two kids are wishing for their lives. Please tell me you have something more to go on than a breastbone and a phone call.

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:32 PM (I0N4X)

52

Hmmmm...

Posted by: Richard Gerer at August 17, 2025 02:36 PM (tb4LP)

53 Putting the wishbone in your mouth and tying it into a knot with your tongue used to be a neat bar trick.

Until the Epiglottis Incident of '83. Damn, I miss old Morty.

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:38 PM (I0N4X)

54 That's nothing. Once, as children, we flipped a coin to settle who goes first, and we used a nickel. The coin ended up on its edge.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 17, 2025 02:39 PM (0U5gm)

55 I win! I win!! O frabjous night to come!!!! They'll have to bury me with that sh*t-eating grin on my face!!!!

Posted by: The Professor at August 17, 2025 02:39 PM (0sNs1)

56 25
Your wishes will not come to pass in any case. Life is frustrated dreams, shattered ambitions, responsibility without authority and expense without reward.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 02:15 PM (kkTda)

This guy gets it...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2025 02:41 PM (nbLIj)

57 Maybe you shouldn't have boned the chicken.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2025 02:07 PM

There weren't any goats available. You do what you have to in a sexual emergency.

Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at August 17, 2025 02:41 PM (0sNs1)

58 That's a wonderful pattern, CBD. Who does your paper towels?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2025 02:41 PM (vYDwg)

59 CBD, I blame the large hadron collider.

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

60 Your wishes will not come to pass in any case. Life is frustrated dreams, shattered ambitions, responsibility without authority and expense without reward.
Posted by: Hadrian

***********

So you're a glass is half full kind of guy, eh?

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:42 PM (I0N4X)

61 Large HARDON Collider, amiright guys?

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 17, 2025 02:43 PM (vYDwg)

62 That chicken needs a sternum talking-to!

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:43 PM (I0N4X)

63 Wasn't there a Flintstones episode where Fred and Barney made a wish pulling a pterodactyl breast bone?

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:46 PM (I0N4X)

64 Maybe you shouldn't have boned the chicken.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2025 02:07 PM

There weren't any goats available. You do what you have to in a sexual emergency.
Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at August 17, 2025 02:41 PM (0sNs1)

Sicko!

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a ruptured asshole at August 17, 2025 02:46 PM (5+Y60)

65 So does this mean I should NOT do a rotissiere turkey next weekend????

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at August 17, 2025 02:46 PM (e/Osv)

66 Current FWP is acclimating to the new time zone. Everything on this site posts three hours later...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2025 02:47 PM (nbLIj)

67 My FWP is I found a house I love. 4 br 2.5 bath 3 car garage. Wouldn't be hard to do at all. WAY better neighborhood yet still no HOA. The type of people who take pride in their hood because it's their hood.
Problem being...
I'd have to move all my shit.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pxUkb)

68 Speaking of, do chickens have fingers?

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:47 PM (I0N4X)

69 I'm going to drag this thread to 100 comments if I have to put it in a wheelbarrow.

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:48 PM (I0N4X)

70 Wasn't there a Flintstones episode where Fred and Barney made a wish pulling a pterodactyl breast bone?

Maybe you're thinking of One Million Years BC where all the cavemen used Raquel Welch's breast bone for making their wishes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2025 02:49 PM (vYDwg)

71 68 No, but buffaloes have wings.

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

72 69 I'm going to drag this thread to 100 comments if I have to put it in a wheelbarrow.
Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:48 PM (I0N4X)

I'll help.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:50 PM (pxUkb)

73 What did the farmer's wife with arthritic fingers say to the chicken?

"You can go pluck yourself!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:51 PM (I0N4X)

74 *tries the veal*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2025 02:52 PM (vYDwg)

75 Buffalo Hump was a mighty Chief.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 02:52 PM (LHPAg)

76 Imm do the 100

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2025 02:54 PM (8uzBS)

77 Why did the genetically modified lamb blush?

He was sheepish!

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:54 PM (I0N4X)

78 A gal pal of mine could do this.

She'd sit on the floor, spread her legs and be able to (easily) lean forward and touch her forehead to the floor. If she was standing, she could bend over and pass her head and shoulders between her legs. With no injuries.

Damnedest thing I ever saw.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2025 02:55 PM (cYBz/)

79
That's nothing. Once, as children, we flipped a coin to settle who goes first, and we used a nickel. The coin ended up on its edge.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Could you read minds afterwards?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2025 02:56 PM (63Dwl)

80 77 Why did the genetically modified lamb blush?

He was sheepish!
Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:54 PM (I0N4X
Electric blue dreaming.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 02:56 PM (LHPAg)

81 I made a bunch of shredded pork roast yesterday. I believe a pork pot pie is in order. It should be out of the oven in time for the food thread.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 17, 2025 02:57 PM (/3eFd)

82 Although typically the wishbone breaks on one side or the other, it IS statistically possible for both pieces to reach their breaking point simultaneously. Like arm wrestlers.

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:58 PM (I0N4X)

83 Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pxUkb)

What are the odds of simultaneous relocation FWP posts. This place...

R'forge, moving is every bit the pain that it is reputed to be. I reduced my furniture inventory to my bedroom and dining room. My biggest advantage was that I've been renting. Still, lots of stress. Good luck with your decision and execution...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2025 02:58 PM (nbLIj)

84 Pfft

I can do that too
I just don't feel like it right now

Posted by: Don Black at August 17, 2025 02:58 PM (AOsQT)

85 Neighbor lady yelling at her spawn right now makes that other house look better and better.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 02:59 PM (pxUkb)

86 I'd have to move all my shit.
Posted by: Reforger

Just do it. It will be a week of hell. But. Then you will be really really happy.

Life is too short to not LOVE where you live.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 17, 2025 02:59 PM (mT+6a)

87 78 A gal pal of mine could do this.

She'd sit on the floor, spread her legs and be able to (easily) lean forward and touch her forehead to the floor. If she was standing, she could bend over and pass her head and shoulders between her legs. With no injuries.

Damnedest thing I ever saw.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2025 02:55 PM (cYBz/)
I had a girlfriend like that, Tonypete. Ballerina, dead ringer for Kate Bush, looks wise.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 02:59 PM (LHPAg)

88 "What are the rules? "

Rules? We don't need no stinkin rules.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2025 03:00 PM (0N4FZ)

89 CBD, maybe if you hadn’t moved to Frogland, this wouldn’t have happened. Jus’ sayin’.

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

90 Until a couple of weeks ago it’s been a pretty mild summer down here in South America . Pool finally hit 90.

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2025 03:01 PM (8uzBS)

91 81 I made a bunch of shredded pork roast yesterday. I believe a pork pot pie is in order

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Presentation is always important, but people forget that good alliteration can also make a meal special.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2025 03:01 PM (JkO4W)

92 Three moves equals one fire. -Ben Franklin

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 17, 2025 03:02 PM (/3eFd)

93 90 You’re in S. America? Where?

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

94
I been wanting to bring this up before...

Is There Anything Sadder Than An Estate Sale?

A "family" allowing a bunch of strangers to rummage through a man's cherished belongings. Of course I'm talking about the stuff in the Garage & Basements. All the Tools, all the Parts -- things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who survive you...

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:02 PM (tLzlD)

95 Speaking of chickens, there is a town in Alaska named Chicken, because the town fathers did not know how to spell ptarmigan.

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 03:03 PM (I0N4X)

96 I’m a renter too. Never be able to afford anything here in Seattle. That’s ok. Hopefully I can stay where I am now for a few more years. If Marine and wifey procreate and move to N Idaho and ask me to be closer to help with childcare, I’m totally on board with moving.

But. Moving is awful. I don’t know anyone who likes it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 17, 2025 03:03 PM (mT+6a)

97
Until a couple of weeks ago it’s been a pretty mild summer down here in South America . Pool finally hit 90.
Posted by: DanMan

Sous Vide a whole cow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2025 03:03 PM (63Dwl)

98 Closing in…

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2025 03:03 PM (8uzBS)

99 Nailed it!

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2025 03:04 PM (8uzBS)

100
Is...is that an autopsy photo from the fucking chicken?

Rest in Peace, you serially abused bird!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2025 03:04 PM (iJfKG)

101 Who choked that chicken?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 17, 2025 03:04 PM (zYNSI)

102
It sickens to me imagine someone else's grubby hands picking through all my Tools, only to sell them on ebay or craigslist.

I'm going to burn it. I'll burn all of it before I go.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:04 PM (tLzlD)

103 Shut?

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2025 03:04 PM (8uzBS)

104 It sickens to me imagine someone else's grubby hands picking through all my Tools, only to sell them on ebay or craigslist.

I'm going to burn it. I'll burn all of it before I go.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:04 PM (tLzlD

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Good luck getting those crescent wrenches to light up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2025 03:05 PM (dDmld)

105 My FWP is that I bought a top of the line Weber grill about 15 years ago. The wheels on the thing are coming apart due to UV decay, and the flavor bars inside are dying from using it 3-4 times per week. I also need to replace the ignitors. The price tag on the parts I need are going to approach the purchase price.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 17, 2025 03:05 PM (0U5gm)

106 A "family" allowing a bunch of strangers to rummage through a man's cherished belongings. Of course I'm talking about the stuff in the Garage & Basements. All the Tools, all the Parts -- things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who survive you...

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:02 PM

I have multiple complete sears socket, wrench and assorted tool sets that I bought 30-40 years ago that will wind up in the dumpster when I die. I know this is what is going to happen and it makes me sad.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2025 03:05 PM (0N4FZ)

107 When my parents visited us in Alaska we gifted them with T-shirts printed with "Ptarm" and "Ptarmigan".

They thought it was hilarious and would wear them together in public.

Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 03:06 PM (I0N4X)

108
I spent Years accumulating & acquiring Made In USA tools. But who will appreciate it?

Not your own kids, that's for sure. Not your nephews. They'll just want to sell it all to strangers.

Empty the house, is there only priority. Get rid of all that "junk" so we can sell & close on the house.

Jerks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:06 PM (tLzlD)

109 94
I been wanting to bring this up before...

Is There Anything Sadder Than An Estate Sale?

A "family" allowing a bunch of strangers to rummage through a man's cherished belongings. Of course I'm talking about the stuff in the Garage & Basements. All the Tools, all the Parts -- things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who survive you...

All the Prince Albert cans stacked neatly, according to size of nuts.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 03:07 PM (LHPAg)

110 106 A "family" allowing a bunch of strangers to rummage through a man's cherished belongings. Of course I'm talking about the stuff in the Garage & Basements. All the Tools, all the Parts -- things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who survive you...

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:02 PM

I have multiple complete sears socket, wrench and assorted tool sets that I bought 30-40 years ago that will wind up in the dumpster when I die. I know this is what is going to happen and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Mister Scott

How about finding a school that teaches shop? A tech school or community college or even a high school. Donate your tools to them.

For the children.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 17, 2025 03:07 PM (mT+6a)

111
How about your "old" car you've been meticulously caring for for so many years? Your "family" "letting it go" for peanuts at an estate sale...

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:08 PM (tLzlD)

112 Sous Vide Chicken will lead to the above result. That's why I deep fry everything.

Posted by: Grease Trap Jones at August 17, 2025 03:09 PM (G5+As)

113 I have multiple complete sears socket, wrench and assorted tool sets that I bought 30-40 years ago that will wind up in the dumpster when I die. I know this is what is going to happen and it makes me sad.

Posted by: Mister Scott

When Craftsman was sold several years ago, I raced to the local Ace Hardware, and grabbed the last made in US 108 piece set of wrenches, screwdrivers, etc. they had. A year or so ago, I gave it to my kid for Christmas. In my family, tools are always handed down, and we needed one more set for every child.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 17, 2025 03:09 PM (0U5gm)

114
Sous Vide a whole cow.

Moo vide.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 17, 2025 03:10 PM (XQuPc)

115 How about your "old" car you've been meticulously caring for for so many years? Your "family" "letting it go" for peanuts at an estate sale...

Posted by: Soothsayer

Such is the way of all flesh and invariably, everything visible. There are no pockets in a shroud!

Posted by: Robert W. Service at August 17, 2025 03:11 PM (G5+As)

116
Why bother rebuilding your dream "Hot Rod" when your "loved ones" will just discard it to the first best offer before your corpse is cold?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:11 PM (tLzlD)

117 Did the meal include cranberry sauce?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 17, 2025 03:13 PM (VPPG8)

118 In all honesty, I don't care what my kids or spouse keep or throw away after I'm gone.

Cuz, you know, I'll have no use for it.

Just don't give everything the heave-ho while I'm still around.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2025 03:14 PM (iJfKG)

119 Donate the stuff to a worthy charity. Unless you really need the cash.

Posted by: Don Black at August 17, 2025 03:14 PM (AOsQT)

120
Your vinyl record collection?

Your vintage 8-tracks?

Your belt buckle collection?

Your original print Farah Fawcett poster?

All gone to some stranger with an ebay account.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:15 PM (tLzlD)

121 I still say that 8 tracks are going to make a comeback.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 17, 2025 03:15 PM (0U5gm)

122 117 Did the meal include cranberry sauce?
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 17, 2025 03:13 PM (VPPG8
Giblet gravy, oyster dressing, mashed potatoes, then cranberry sauce. And of course crisp cool weather1

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 03:15 PM (LHPAg)

123 Oh, good grief, people. You can’t keep everything. Let it go, and accept that when you die, your hobbies and interests die with you.

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

124
Oh, good grief, people. You can’t keep everything. Let it go, and accept that when you die, your hobbies and interests die with you.
Posted by: Bulg

You ought to write for Hallmark.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:17 PM (tLzlD)

125 Is There Anything Sadder Than An Estate Sale?

A "family" allowing a bunch of strangers to rummage through a man's cherished belongings. Of course I'm talking about the stuff in the Garage & Basements. All the Tools, all the Parts -- things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who things that mean NOTHING to the Vultures who survive you...

And not a single 10mm socket in the bunch!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)

126 The young missionaries who were murdered in South America put it this way:
Giving up your life for the gospel is giving up something you can't keep for something you can't loose.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 03:19 PM (LHPAg)

127
You'd better start building that Eromero Museum in your backyard and get it declared a Texas Landmark if you don't want nobody touching nuthin.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2025 03:21 PM (iJfKG)

128 And not a single 10mm socket in the bunch!
Posted by: Diogenes

Don't scoff. You think your vast collection of ordnance and artillery shells won't be on ebay?

Posted by: Cannonball Express at August 17, 2025 03:21 PM (G5+As)

129 You can't force someone to like what you like.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2025 03:21 PM (63Dwl)

130 But. Moving is awful. I don’t know anyone who likes it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 17, 2025 03:03 PM (mT+6a)

It's all about the result. One unexpected bonus was when Little unearthed a cache of long lost pictures of me at various stages of my life. He'd heard the stories before, and it was like finding the illustrations. Turning him on to the music from those times during the cross-country drive was fun, too...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2025 03:21 PM (nbLIj)

131 And not a single 10mm socket in the bunch!

Posted by: Diogenes

Heh, one set I inherited had about six of those. I suppose he got tired of them running away, and just bought a herd.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 17, 2025 03:22 PM (0U5gm)

132 CBD, I will take the positive side, something unusual for me: I think you both get your wishes.

Posted by: Ralph at August 17, 2025 03:27 PM (8WZD4)

133 FWP here is needing to clean the ash pit in the green egg before burning the barnyard animals. Probably gonna do some marinated chicken thighs on the grill and some rice with hatch chilis for dinner.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2025 03:27 PM (3Ope8)

134 Has this ever happened to anyone in the history of the world? This is new territory. Nothing has prepared us for this unprecedented event. What are the rules?

Seriously? This happens and has happened since the very beginning. That the LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remain forever ceaseless because the Value illicitly obtained retains no value.

It is their Drumbeat so Appealing which keeps them scurrying ever faster upon the Hamster wheel where the Truly Evil abide -- those abetted by the Venal and the WEAK.

There is, was, and always be one Absolute Power which holds sway over objective reality just as it presides over the course of each Individuals lives: The Power of IDEAS.

That Good Ideas will Replace the Bad.

That Evil has NO POWER when the Good remain unafraid.

That in the end, the desperate and deliberately Evil have always been a historical minority, emboldened, Sponsored, DEFENDED by the LIBs who will Proudly do unto their People PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.

LIBs plead for a Morality which holds COMPROMISE as its standard of Value, making it possible to judge Virtue on the basis of the number of Values which one is willing to Betray.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 17, 2025 03:28 PM (Pffb2)

135
Her Majesty is giving away most of her enormous collection of Borzoi artwork, statuary and trophies won over 50 years of showing. All going to specialty clubs, Borzoi rescue or National Specialty auctions.

All free, all transported by her as she travels. Every trophy offered at next week's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club Specialty is being offered by her. Delilah won a lovely statue in 2021 for going Best of Breed. HM turned it around and returned it to be a challenge trophy.

So, no concerns what happens when she goes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2025 03:32 PM (kkTda)

136 Amother week I'll comment on my head shaver.

First beers in 6 weeks. I'm so tired but my friends who have been amazing for me are away and their lawn needs to be mowed.

This will be a nice surprise for them.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.2% at August 17, 2025 03:32 PM (jvJvP)

137 It's called mono no aware, round eyes.

Posted by: serene Japanese dude at August 17, 2025 03:33 PM (DgGvY)

138 "You can’t keep everything. Let it go, and accept that when you die, your hobbies and interests die with you.
Posted by: Bulg "

When my grandfather died, it was like inheriting a hardware store. Every once in a while when I use something from his stash I will look heavenward and say "Thanks Grandpa!"

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 03:34 PM (vFG9F)

139 Not to mention China sets

Posted by: Javems at August 17, 2025 03:34 PM (8I4hW)

140 Ok, this is not a sea story. I won a Kimber in a raffle and gave it back to run again. The next year rolled around and I won it again.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 03:34 PM (LHPAg)

141
When my grandfather died, it was like inheriting a hardware store. Every once in a while when I use something from his stash I will look heavenward and say "Thanks Grandpa!"
Posted by: fd

This Is The Way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:35 PM (D8r4G)

142 Almost stepped on snek.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2025 03:36 PM (viF8m)

143 Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 17, 2025 03:28 PM (Pffb2)

Hmmm. Then how do you respond to the idea that our system of government is based on compromise?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 17, 2025 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

144 Are these really the questions I was called here to answer? Wishbones and superstitions? I'm an educated man, Lt. Caffey, but I can't speak about the breaking habits of roasted chicken bones. Maybe he had osteoporosis, or maybe he just liked breaking non-conventionally. All I know is that chicken was due to leave the pot at oh-six-hundred. Now these two kids are wishing for their lives. Please tell me you have something more to go on than a breastbone and a phone call.
Posted by: muldoon at August 17, 2025 02:32 PM (I0N4X)

You want a wishbone??? You can't handle a wishbone!

I WANT THE BREAST!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

145 fd, that’s fine, it you’re a tool guy. I am not a tool guy, so there would be no sense in my keeping the tools. Maybe a few, but not the whole collection.

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

146 It means someone else's hopes, dreams, desires, goals and wishes will be forever thwarted. Great job, you ruined a life.

Posted by: Congratulations on passing the karmic buck at August 17, 2025 03:37 PM (TbWk/)

147 "Almost stepped on snek.
Posted by: JackStraw "

When I cut the grass Friday, I think I ran over a snake. I saw something on the lawn later and it was the middle part of a snake that would have been a couple of feet long. No sign of the ends though .

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 03:38 PM (vFG9F)

148 My precisely prepared pork pot pie (with pre-made, processed pie-crusts) is presently perched on the middle rack of my electric oven.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 17, 2025 03:38 PM (/3eFd)

149 I do love where I live, Nurse. It's a dump but it's my dump. I really like not having a morgage payment too. Therein is the issue. This place is a serious upgrade in one aspect yet a downgrade in two. Wife gets an awesome house. I downsize the shop pretty hard and then we have a morgage again.
I think it's been on the market for a bit. I'm going to keep an eye on it and see if it comes down fitty grand or so.
The realtor is Chase, our ex morgage holder and current car loan holder so if she inquires they'll be all SELL IT TO THEM!! They pay everything on or before time.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2025 03:39 PM (pxUkb)

150 Eromeno you were ment to have it

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2025 03:40 PM (+qU29)

151 >>When I cut the grass Friday, I think I ran over a snake. I saw something on the lawn later and it was the middle part of a snake that would have been a couple of feet long. No sign of the ends though .

All we get around here are garter snakes. I have one that lives in my retaining wall.

Or maybe I have two because one looked a bit different.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2025 03:41 PM (viF8m)

152 Almost stepped on snek.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2025 03:36 PM (viF8m)

*runs and grabs shotgun*

WHERE???WHERE???

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 03:42 PM (2WIwB)

153 108
Empty the house, is there only priority. Get rid of all that "junk" so we can sell & close on the house.

Jerks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025

I suggest you haunt them. Slam cabinets in the middle of the night. Write in the steamed up mirrors “you sold my socket and your soul”.

Posted by: Piper at August 17, 2025 03:44 PM (OoFl2)

154
That's right. It's not about the material possessions. It's about disregarding a person's mark in this world.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:45 PM (hFjSj)

155 It means both of the people have to rub a one-legged midget's stump, or the cow's milk will turn blue
Posted by: imp at August 17, 2025 02:18 PM (g6TN6)

______________________

I hate imprecision. The midget must be male, have a single gold tooth, and all parties must be singing "I love to go swimmin' with bow-legged women, and swim between their legs." Screw up the ritual, and you're playing with fire.

Posted by: Orson at August 17, 2025 03:45 PM (dIske)

156 Bulg, the South American DanMan is referring to is actually the Gulf Coast Prairie in Texas.

Posted by: DanMa'am at August 17, 2025 03:46 PM (8uzBS)

157 Is be a piece agreement maid in Ukrane it must also includes protection for gays and transginde rs too.

Posted by: Mary Clogerstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 17, 2025 03:48 PM (ibfWm)

158 Or maybe I have two because one looked a bit different.
Posted by: JackStraw

Garter snakes can change their pigment according to the background a good bit.

Posted by: Snake Lady From Duel at August 17, 2025 03:48 PM (G5+As)

159 When my mom passed in 2020 it was at the peak of the covid stupidity. My brother and sister and I had only a few days, initially, to sort out her estate. We packed up what we could, what we wanted to take back with us and left the rest for the following visit, about 2-3 weeks later.

It was overwhelming.

We ended up leaving/donating all her clothes, several pieces of antique furniture, silver and crystal that we just couldn't find space for at our places or in our vehicles. I'd estimate there was $50K worth of stuff left in the place. Absurd.

And because of the covid protocols we were unable to do any sort of auction, so the state got everything left. By design.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2025 03:49 PM (Q4IgG)

160 Reforger--

FWIW, when I retired 9.5 years ago, we initially had no thoughts of moving but after 6 months we changed our minds and jumped in with both feet. Mind you we'd both said we were NEVER moving again and had been in the same place for 27 years so it took quite a bit to stir us to action.

Yes, moving was a pain but it was very purifying and I can't think of a single thing that we could have done that would have made us happier than we are now. We loved our old house, but now we wake up every day in a place that feels like paradise. Just my opinion, but it's worth it.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 17, 2025 03:49 PM (FEVMW)

161 I hoped my boys will take my collection when I'm gone but I can understand why someone might not want a 50s vintage oscilloscope and freq generator, or the pre WWII arc welder that looks like it would blow up if you plugged it in.

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 03:50 PM (vFG9F)

162 I WANT THE BREAST!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

Take your pick. https://anodtothegods.com/?p=41984

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2025 03:50 PM (3Ope8)

163 156 OK, thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at August 17, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

164 >>Garter snakes can change their pigment according to the background a good bit.

Well if he lies on on grass while I'm walking I'm liable to change his pigment permanently. He's lucky I happened to look down just as I was about to step on his head.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)

165
or the pre WWII arc welder that looks like it would blow up if you plugged it in.
Posted by: fd

Or your "vintage" battery charger with the replaced two-pronged plug and hums loudly when plugged in?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 17, 2025 03:54 PM (5hc3S)

166 Soothsayer--

I have a "flip side" story about acquiring someone's possessions. The previous owner of our house had died and we bought the house from his estate. His family was planning on an estate sale but we wound up buying all of the contents in addition to the house. We have mostly kept the prior owner's possessions, although he had a lot more tchotchkes than I'd like. Whenever we give away something that was his, I try to make sure it goes to a place where it will be appreciated.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 17, 2025 03:54 PM (FEVMW)

167 Take your pick. https://anodtothegods.com/?p=41984
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2025 03:50 PM (3Ope

Hmmmm.
I have had a very, very bad day. A two-hander if you will.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 03:55 PM (2WIwB)

168 "Or your "vintage" battery charger with the replaced two-pronged plug and hums loudly when plugged in?
Posted by: Soothsayer"

Hey, I've had that thing for 40 years and it still works fine if you hold the cord just right.

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 03:55 PM (vFG9F)

169 Soothsayer- nothing says you have to leave things to family. You can will your possessions to someone who you know would appreciate them the way you do. That way the positive associations you have keep going.

Posted by: Piper at August 17, 2025 03:57 PM (OoFl2)

170 Just saw a black cat walk under a ladder just to knock a mirror off a high ledge. Dafuq did you lot DO?

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 17, 2025 03:59 PM (xlB7b)

171 Rules? We don't need no stinkin rules.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2025 03:00 PM

Yah, looks like the pants requirement has disappeared from The Book Thread.

"The horror. ... The horror."
-- Col. Kurz

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 17, 2025 04:01 PM (0sNs1)

172 168 "Or your "vintage" battery charger with the replaced two-pronged plug and hums loudly when plugged in?
Posted by: Soothsayer"

Hey, I've had that thing for 40 years and it still works fine if you hold the cord just right.
Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 03:55 PM (vFG9F)
My old charger was big as a a cooler and my 'new' one is the size of a meatloaf pan.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 04:01 PM (LHPAg)

173 I WANT THE BREAST!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2025 03:37 PM

Yeah, you and everyone else, it seems.

Posted by: Sydney S. at August 17, 2025 04:03 PM (0sNs1)

174 154
That's right. It's not about the material possessions. It's about disregarding a person's mark in this world.
Posted by: Soothsayer
======
I've learned over the years in these matters, some people have sentiments about the memories from material goods--others are transactional.

Find things a good home before bad things happen is my motto after cleaning out my mother's and in-laws homes. My mother, in a way was too sentimental and house was filled to the brim. In laws weren't nearly as sentimental but the more of the Depression mindset in keeping everything just in case.

Posted by: whig at August 17, 2025 04:03 PM (ctrM5)

175 FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2025 04:03 PM (+qU29)

176 I remember the good ole days where you could work on your car and electronic gadgets. Now you need a BSEE degree just to fix your car...

One mistake and you fry a circuit board or Chip that costs you a $1000.

Posted by: Jackson at August 17, 2025 04:05 PM (q/j2W)

177 All the Prince Albert cans stacked neatly, according to size of nuts.
Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 03:07 PM

Ummm, I'm no expert when it comes to body modifications, but I don't think the 'Prince Albert' is related to the size of the nuts, but rather something else.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 17, 2025 04:06 PM (0sNs1)

178 Society of Automotive Engineers:

Key people
Andrew L. Riker
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Glenn Martin
Orville Wright
Charles Kettering

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2025 04:06 PM (Dl5u9)

179 My parents are hoarders, and not in a good horde way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2025 04:07 PM (pEm+o)

180 I was asked by my girlfriend at KFC if I was a Breast or Thigh person......

And I said yes....

Posted by: Jackson at August 17, 2025 04:10 PM (q/j2W)

181 I think relatives sometimes pick one in the younger generation that they know will care. I have my grandmother's wedding trunk, also my husband's grandmother's. I have wood foot long needles that a few-greats grandfather used to mend sails and netting on a whaler before the Civil War. I treasure them. People apparently understood that I would.

Posted by: Wenda at August 17, 2025 04:12 PM (4k3J4)

182 I have what I guess now is a vintage trombone. I've played that horn for nearly 50 years and it kind of shows it. The bell is Sterling silver and at one point the lacquer looked so bad I stripped it all off and polished it up real nice. It plays like a dream. The model is highly desired and they go for $3 to $5K in good condition.

The problem is that I can't play anymore and I bought it from someone many years ago who was a good friend and I promised him that I would never sell it unless he had a chance to buy it. He's joked to me over the years about how much he wants that horn "back" and I shut him down every time.

And the real problem is that the guy hates my guts now because of Trump. etc. He's been enraptured with politics his whole life and a rabid leftist who always bullied me to start a political argument but I always refused.

He refuses to return my messages and phone calls over the last five years. His family who I know well are worried about him. He's built a room in his garage and rarely comes out.

The guy is a seriously gifted musician who you might have even heard play before.

I don't know what to do? Even if I don't give it back to him, I don't know what to do.

Posted by: pawn at August 17, 2025 04:15 PM (9heow)

183 Wenda, what are you going to do?

Posted by: pawn at August 17, 2025 04:17 PM (9heow)

184 You think you have problems? Zombie cats have invaded LA.

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 04:18 PM (vFG9F)

185 You think you have problems? Zombie cats have invaded LA.
Posted by: fd

I think that's just an anime show.

Posted by: Nyaight of the Living Cat at August 17, 2025 04:20 PM (DgGvY)

186 "Residents in a Los Angeles neighborhood say dozens of “zombie’’ stray cats have invaded their area, knocking and scratching at everyone’s doors late at night like something out of a horror movie."

Mrs Slocumbe, do you know where your pussy is?

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2025 04:23 PM (vFG9F)

187 And the real problem is that the guy hates my guts now because of Trump. etc. He's been enraptured with politics his whole life and a rabid leftist who always bullied me to start a political argument but I always refused.

He refuses to return my messages and phone calls over the last five years. His family who I know well are worried about him. He's built a room in his garage and rarely comes out.

The guy is a seriously gifted musician who you might have even heard play before.

I don't know what to do? Even if I don't give it back to him, I don't know what to do.
Posted by: pawn at August 17, 2025 04:15 PM (9heow)
Back over that trombone with your truck, then give it back to him. Say 'hey dude here's your horn back for free.

Posted by: Eromero at August 17, 2025 04:24 PM (LHPAg)

188 pawn---

Over the last several years my husband and I have been in a faith journey and I'm in a very different place than I would have been otherwise. Don't know that the background matters to you but it informed my thoughts about what I would do if I were you.

I'd figure out a way to anonymously deliver the trombone to your former friend's place. It probably won't make any difference, but God has ways of reaching people who don't want to be reached. It could help him.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 17, 2025 04:28 PM (FEVMW)

189 How about your "old" car you've been meticulously caring for for so many years? Your "family" "letting it go" for peanuts at an estate sale...

Posted by: Soothsayer
===

When my parents moved after their retirement they liquidated almost everything and chose to sell valuables on the market because family would feel entitled to getting it for free..
Most notable -
- 1967 Chevy SS convertable w/ 396
- Really freekin old Farmall tractor,, maybe c. 1920s, weird engine that starts with gas and then switchover to diesel oil.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 17, 2025 04:33 PM (/lPRQ)

190 Borderlands Mexico:
US trade with Mexico tops $73B in June;
Pharmaceutical maker plans $188M investment in Mexico; and Border agents find $7.6M in meth hidden in shipment of roses.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2025 04:41 PM (Dl5u9)

191 Society of Automotive Engineers:

Key people:

Charles Kettering
Posted by: Braenyard
--------

Don't get me started on this...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2025 04:55 PM (XeU6L)

192 Test

Posted by: Test Pattern at August 17, 2025 05:19 PM (feH6S)

193 143 Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 17, 2025 03:28 PM (Pffb2)
>Hmmm. Then how do you respond to the idea that our system of government is based on compromise?

If AI is NOT a solution to coding, then why would anyone believe Politics is the answer to Governance?

A deadly escalation between Technology and Politics -- So sez, Thiel, who sponsored Musk and JD Vance to install Trump over ctHARRIS -- good Idea, but then impeach him on the basis of Epstein to be pardon'd by JD as the new president in Thiel's back pocket...

No more Deadly Escalation? hardly, if Loomer is anything but a three-letter wannabe if not more, the pope isn't American.

The establishment will stay established no matter how many millions ($ or people, it matters not, left/right, up/down all are their playthings).

There only one 'tiny' thing in their way: Trump
And what could possibly go wrong there?

After all, Gov't Influence comes in only one flavor: Coercive Force.

https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-OneNation
https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-TheFrankenRabbit
https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-theOBAMANOMICON
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-OrangeLotus

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 17, 2025 06:35 PM (IhcIr)

194 Bittersweet memory of youth. I had a wishbone from a chicken or turkey that we set on the windowsill waiting for the perfect moment to collect its boon. Weeks passed. Finally, my brother and I grasped the bone of wishes, we pulled, and sadly, it yielded the result shown in the picture. It has been over a half-century since that fateful day and I still grieve for that lost wish.

Posted by: steve poling at August 17, 2025 08:51 PM (J3cMN)

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