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>> in high school our home room made up a student

Some kids at my HS did that. It was a real triumph the day the announcements included "him" being absent, sick. Didn't make the yearbook, though.

Adding Stringer Davis to the pencil-point tat club.

Only tattoo that really tells a story is a serial number on your wrist.
I have met people who had those.
I have really long hair on the back of my neck. It stood right up.

Father of a friend of mine - I knew he was "Romanian," and arrived in the USA after the war with $10 and the clothes he was wearing. Became a successful self-employed businessman.

Then came the day I saw him with his sleeves rolled up, and there were the numbers on his forearm.

Drives that "history" right home, it does!

Daughter has started watching the Supergirl series. Late Sunday night she texted me:

Serious question. .. how did supergirl get pierced ears?

Me: On Krypton

She: Lol. Ok. Right

Next morning:

Me: Orrr... The comics used to show Superman "shaving" using a hand-held mirror and his super heat vision. (Must've smelled like burning steel wool.) Maybe SGirl did something like that. Ow!

She: Ah, the old in home super vision ear pierce!

(Hope I properly closed all those italicans.)

Wow! I share a rare tat style with CaliGirl! Cool!

Stabbed you in the leg? Ow. Wot a jerk.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dot... dot... at January 03, 2017 10:54 PM (+/zXg)
I have one of those pencil marks from the fifth grade. The son of the teacher stabbed me in the leg with a pencil when I walked past his desk. He didn't get in trouble. I was crying and the lead is still there.
He was a weird spazz.

I was going to say no tats on me, but then I remembered.

In IIRC 4th Grade, I managed somehow to poke myself in the finger with a freshly-sharpened pencil. Must've hit a vein because blood came gushing everywhere.

Still have two pencil-gray spots on that fingertip.

I should add a short curve to make a smiley.

Never was attracted to tats, but having many scars starting at age 9, I figure I've got my own kind of "ink."

Bandersnatch #95: I'm pretty sure Assange just said that Podesta's password was "password".

Fake news! That's not what I read!

It was "passw0rd" (zero for the letter o)

Michael the TEXIT #82: Did you finish watching this season's episodes of The Man in the High Castle? What did you think?

No spoilers!!

SPOILERS

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It got cold. I miss yesterday's 60° weather. Now we have to suffer through the arctic ravages until the next day in the 60s. Which should be a week from now.

Ooooooo-OH!klahoma...!

Having hereby pulled my chair up to the buffet, I now go to read the post.

Am I still here? I thought I went to bed several minutes ago. Huh. Guess I'll do that now.

We're up to #555. That'll have to do for me tonight.

Coyotes howling and squealing not far away. Glad all our kittehs and Gimli-dog are snuggled down and snoozing safely inside. It's a wild world and some 'safe spaces' are truly needed.

z y'all l8r

Every once in a while, I encounter words that I have to stop and think, do I really know what that means? Of course, it just takes a few clicks to look up a word now That's cool. (Knowing how to pronounce it is also easier nowadays - hate it when I find out I've been misprunooncing a word all my life.)

One I encountered tonight was "termagant." There was another one 'way back upstream tonight - I went looking for it again, but... how do you look for a word when you don't know what it was?

Kind of weird to re-live the earlier part of the thread, too. Now, how far behind did I get while doing that?

* lies down next to Tucker, whimpering sympathetically *

Axl Rose, Pearl Jam, Lovin' Spoonful...

Yeah, I thought 10cc, but I figured someone else would have already socked it. Not just one but two. That's how dull and mundane my moron wit is today. Besides slow.

I blame the flu.

clicknic4vid

I don't mish mash, but I do kinda miss some of the characters, like Radar and Fr Mulcahey RIP.

Howdy, mushrats! Now to read the Ooont.

Burnt Toast: The original caption was, "who knew I was joking when I said, Allahabad ackbar! I have a bomb!"

That caption is a great set-up for the implied action which it precipitates.

Hint: wasn't exactly hilarity which ensued.

Alternative caption:

"Our pilots have been bouncing us off mountainsides, flying directly into storms, and serving us piss and calling it beer for eight years now! Who else wants Captain Trump instead?"

(Wait, too many words for the Noo Yanker.)

Wow, I really need to sell some drawings and make some bucks. Mmm. Lessee, New Yorker readers.. elitists... dimwits... ah! I've got it! (starts scribbling)

Me: What was that caption Ace was going to put on all cartoons?

Splunge: I think it was Iowahawk...

I thought Ace was Iowahawk! Wow! Many 2017 is just one revelation after another.

(Thanks for the correction.)

* takes marker to screen and scratches out NYer cartoon caption, writes in "I'm going to kill myself." *

Yeah, that works.

Well, thanks; now I've had my fill of the New Yorker for the year. By Day 2.

What was that caption Ace was going to put on all cartoons? Apply it to this one...?

As it turned out, Russia hacked Stuxnet