Hello there fellow DFO’er.  Hope you’re well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain.  There’s no reason as to why some comments make it and others don’t.  

For the Canadian DFO’er, hope you enjoUyed your long weekend.  For the rest, happy Tuesday.  And holy shitballs, it’s already August.  I know that BFC covered this on Sunday, but I still cannot get over that it’s August.  Where does the time go?

Big news in these parts is the addition of 2 bunnies to the house.  My kidlets have had a tough year, like most of us, so we got the bunnies as therapy pets from an animal rescue place.  So far so good.  And even better news is that I’m nawt allergic to them as I am HIGHLY allergic to cats and dogs, which is why we didn’t get either as a pet. 

They are a bonded pair, so play well together and do most things together ( eat, sleep, poop).  The grey one is Lola and the white one is Rex.  And yes they have been fixed.  It’s been different to have them as pets as they are still very timid and jump at most noises still.  The other thing that I didn’t know is that they are considered exotic pets and that not every vet will take them. Oh and there’s fucking hay everywhere now.  They eat and drop it all over the place.  And as it’s too big to vacuum up, it needs to be swept or picked up by hand.  

As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post. Note that during the offseason, I’ll probably look at the Sunday posts.

Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.

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5th pick:

LemonJello

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“Fat, drunk, & stupid is no way to go through life, son”
BeefReeferLives

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People, stop citing other lines from movies/whatever where a line was just drafted in a reply to the pick. Do you want Blair Witches? Because that’s how you get Blair Witches!
Horatio Cornblower

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Sharkbait

Warthog

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I don’t think butterfly stroke is very reminiscent of butterflies. There should be more aimlessly fluttering around with the occasional stop for nectar
Doktor Zymm

And the last place finisher should be pinned to a styrofoam board.
Mr. Ayo

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Brocky

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The worst part about seeing the Russian gymnasts huddle up and speak to each other in Russian is knowing that they are conspiring to interfere with American elections.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

/logs in as new DFO user JohnnyEagleMAGAPatriot65234234

“Hello, fellow American sports fan. I think you have been reading the fake news. Russia is good friend of America and Putin wants only the best for you. Us. I mean us. Because I very big fan of American sports and the jokes of the dicks.”
Dunstan

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British ginger won the 200 free. What a world!
Gumbygirl

Ginger is supposed to help with seasickness, so that may give him an advantage in the water.
Doktor Zymm

Those Weasleys are always up to something.
TheRevanchist

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Here’s the first one. I may have posted an earlier version of this one here before I can’t remember. I hope I don’t bore anybody:

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I was an engineer in the US Navy submarine service, between the age of 18 and 23, and I did main propulsion, known as M-Division or a “Nuke.” I’m one of the last of the Rickover trained engineers.

If you don’t mind, let me tell you about being at sea in the North Atlantic and some of the different ways you can get the shit kicked out of you.

The first is called a “tail broach” and this is unique to submarines. Have you ever seen a nature documentary where a whale lifts it tail out of the water and then slaps it down? When we were snorkeling (once a week) and blowing our tanks and running the diesel and ventilating we always did this in fairly rough seas to keep the surface ships of five different Navies who were trying to follow us from getting too fresh. And it was rough for us (it was a violent ride) but we knew we would dive again after about an hour and get out of it, unlike the surface vessels who had to live in it. I served back aft in the engine room, and you learned very quickly when snorkeling that if you heard the main engines overspeed it meant the tail was out of the water and that it was going to slap back down on the stern planes, just like a whale. You held on to something and bent your knees in order to absorb the shock, which was considerable.

To civilians, the best way to describe this is if you were standing (not sitting) in a Boeing 737 parked on an airfield. A crane picks up the aircraft and lifts it to 10 or 15 feet, and then drops it back to the tarmac. That’s a quality tail broach.

Another was surface running, which we didn’t do very frequently. We were a submarine and being submerged was better and smoother and more comfortable and safer. Running on the surface is simply not what a nuclear submarine is hydrodynamical designed to do efficiently; if the sea is rough you are in for a rotten ride. Sometimes we almost rolled sideways. I had my sea legs but I once walked down the passageway outside the mess decks while surface running and the starboard bulkhead came over and pounded me in the face, as if the boat had suddenly pivoted ninety degrees. This happened more than once.

A submarine that is surface running at night carries very minimal running lights (unlike a cruise ship, for example, which is lit up like a circus). If you are in the cockpit on the sail at night in clear weather you can look up and see the entire universe. There is a falling star about once a minute. We would go down to the Caribbean every so often to do torpedo qualifications, and by day the water is bluer than blue (turquoise) and by night our considerable wake would stir up bioluminescent plankton that would leave an extraordinary beautiful glowing green trail behind us.

Another one, also a work in progress. I appreciate you reading these.

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On a nuclear submarine the diesel is the most important piece of damage control equipment on the boat. We constantly drilled with reactor scrams and fast scram recoveries, and therefore snorkeling (operating the diesel) was an extremely big deal.

Ours was a Fairbanks-Morse ND-8-1/8, and starting it was was one of my watch duties. It was air started; no electricity required.

Not only did the diesel provide auxiliary electrical power, it could move serious amounts of air. If there was a fire on a submarine you are in an enclosed space. Visibility goes to zero almost immediately. The boat goes up to periscope depth and we start snorkeling with the diesel, and the air intake is aligned to the smoke-filled compartment. The diesel and its big “roots blower” supercharger will clear that compartment in short order.

Our diesel loved being loaded. It was like working dog. If it just idled it got cranky but the more the electrical operator put a load on it the happier it got. That thing was a champ.

Machines have personalities.
Brick Meathook

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The Olympics are making the women play beach volleyball during a tropical rainstorm.

Probably because it’s the only way those old fucks on the Olympic Committee can get a woman wet.
Horatio Cornblower

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Five Points On How Ashli Babbitt Has Become A Martyr For The Far-Right https://t.co/FPnZpiuZBi via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 27, 2021

I haven’t seen points this hollow since the one that went straight through that traitor’s neck.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’ve seen the video of the shooting.

She’s trying to break through a locked door while he’s got his gun drawn, giving clear, loud instructions for them all to move away.

The “just comply with the police and you won’t have trouble” crowd seems to have missed that one.
Anthony In TX

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Florio is a clown and got snippy at Schefter for implying that A A Ron got a good deal. Rodgers pushed for a quicker out and got it. Bonus! Rodgers is spiteful enough to leave Green Bay after a Super Bowl loss. We should just step back and savor the rancor.
Don T

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Social media: Are you living your best life?

Me: /caresses enchilada stain on bedsheets
Don T

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Found a funny:

Me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?

Librarian: stop talking
rockingdog

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Kudos to the Swiss women’s mountain bike team that swept the podium-a very rare accomplishment.
scotchnaut

Nice of them to clean the podium.

How’d they do in competition?
Anthony In TX

Couldn’t get out of neutral.
LemonJello

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Hey all.
With the NuAids variant surging, & mask mandates for indoor areas going back up, I can imagine many of you are thinking “Well FUCK THAT. If those science denying fools don’t get vaxxed, FUCK ‘EM. I’m sure Darwin would applaud their deaths.” &, frankly, I would agree with you if it was that simple.

However it ain’t that simple. Case in point, I have a chum whose treasonous body has decided his kidneys don’t smell right, and are trying to reject them. So, he has to take drugs that suppress his immune system. He has gotten the jabs, but they didn’t quite take as much as they would have otherwise. So, he is vulnerable. As a result, he has to really watch where he is, what he does, and who he hangs out with. I have kept on wearing my mask in populous, indoor areas because he enjoys my company and I don’t want to kill him.

My chum is seeing an immunologist to see if there is any action he can take to get fully protected, but even if he does achieve full immunity, I think I’m going to continue wearing my face diaper when in a populous, indoor area. It’s a bit stuffy, but there’s a lot of people out there with immune issues.

Just wanted to throw that out there.
BeefReeferLives

If anything, you buddy’s situation makes it even more important for the idiots that CHOOSE not to get vaccinated to either disappear or get the jab.

The longer they wait, the more in danger your buddy is.
ballsofsteelandfury

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If your last name is Chalmers your nickname has to be Super Nintendo, right?
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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I played volleyball in high school. Its insane how much the game has changed since then. Nobody jump served then
Sharkbait

Did they also wear onions on their belt? As it was the style at the time.
litre_cola

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Just as our Premier DiSantised our province I got a text.

Basically fuck it you are all on your own and we are going to stop asymptomatic testing just in time for school. Good times.
litre_cola

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The NFL Confronts Vaccine Refusers – The Atlantic

Last month, the Washington Football Team invited the renowned immunologist Kizzmekia S. Corbett to speak with players and address any questions they might have about the coronavirus vaccines. Corbett isn’t just a random expert; she helped create the Moderna vaccine. Despite Corbett’s impeccable credentials and expertise, Washington’s defensive end Montez Sweat remained staunchly opposed to vaccination even after hearing from her. He claimed he needed more information, although Corbett was on hand to answer any questions he might have had. “I probably won’t get vaccinated until I get more facts and that stuff,” Sweat said.

On the one hand, I’ve heard from an immunologist who helped create the vaccine. On the other hand, let me hear what Joe Rogan has to say…
Dunstan

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Hey guys what’s up?
DontHair

Glad to see my new haircut is the stuff of tributes!

But seriously, welcome. And never strive for having Steve Bannon’s ‘do.
Don T

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I love mr bean pic.twitter.com/sTimCIgUrI

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 29, 2021

TheRevanchist

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Doktor Zymm

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Found a mantra

Don T

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On many days, the best thing I’ve read on the web is a BGR post. You’ve spoiled us with quality and quantity. Don’t get lost, prof.
Don T

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found a funny:

DOCTOR: The tests are back. You have cancer and Alzheimers.

PATIENT: At least I don’t have cancer.

(h/t to rocking dog for stealing his shtick)
Brick Meathook

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found a funny:

[clown college commencement]
what you’ve accomplished here today…
hushed murmur
is no small feet
clowns go fuckin nuts
rockingdog

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Hippo no can haz Qatar as Coupe D’Or champs.
litre_cola

Hippo can NEVAR haz wut he wants
King Hippo

That’s because you have better taste than the real world

#Blackberry4Lyfe
Doktor Zymm

makes gang sign, nods at Dok knowingly
King Hippo

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Bring Back Matt!
BrettFavresColonoscopy

I keed, i keed. BGR, you can’t say goodbye to us, only see you later. I’ve learned a ton from you, not just about Canadia but about the history of countries and people that matter to Americans, too. Your writing is first-rate, your research unmatched, and your dogs fluffy and adorable.
BrettFavresColonoscopy

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Figures, Beerguyrob leaves and doesn’t show us pictures of Riga and Lambeau.

Dick.
Horatio Cornblower

From today’s hike. Just for you, baby.

Beerguyrob

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If Qatar wins this Golden Shower Cup:

(i) North America should cease being a continent;
(ii) it will be like 9/11 come early for the Middle East; and
(iii) I will perhaps die* of laughter

*just not one of them drool-y vegetative states PLEAZ GOD
King Hippo

So, North America will become incontinent? Way ahead of you, buddy.
TheRevanchist

Come on man, it’s only a little bit, mostly when I sneeze.
Gumbygirl

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Your in-depth history posts were my favoUrites. You obviously couldn’t craft them that same day and the work you put into them was amazing. [salutes]
scotchnaut

Thanks. I’m actually going to use them to show students how to proper reference internet sites, because I made sure to source everything correctly.
Beerguyrob

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Signing off, here ya go nerds!

Gumbygirl

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All those tits are nice but let’s get down to men’s work. I think I posted an earlier version of this story before but here’s a more refined one. I’m an obsessive re-writer so it’s different.

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On a nuclear submarine the diesel generator is the most important piece of damage control equipment on the boat. We constantly drilled with reactor scrams and fast scram recoveries, not just weekly but daily, and therefore “snorkeling” (going up to periscope depth and operating the air breathing diesel through an induction mast) was an extremely big deal.

Our diesel was a Fairbanks-Morse ND-8-1/8, and starting it was was one of my watch duties. It was only operated at or near the surface because it was an air breathing engine. It was started with compressed air; no electricity was required. Starting the diesel required both hands and one foot, and we were usually rolling pretty hard at periscope depth. My left hand operated the “air start quadrant lever,” my right hand turned the “snorkel safety cut-out switch,” my left foot was on the “kick-valve,” and I could stand on my right foot.

Not only did the diesel provide auxiliary electrical power (800KW), it could move enormous amounts of air. If there was ever a fire on a submarine (most likely petroleum) you are in big trouble in an enclosed space. Visibility would go to zero almost immediately, and we would don breathing masks. The casualty response was the boat would go up to periscope depth and start snorkeling. The diesel would be started and its air intake would be aligned to the smoke-filled compartment. The suction of its big “roots blower” supercharger would be used to clear the smoke in the compartment (assuming we had put out the fire). That engine could gobble up all that smoke without missing a beat, and exhausted directly overboard through water-cooled pressure tight valves.

At the same time, fresh air was brought in through the snorkel mast by a different air pump up forward called “the low pressure blower.”

Remember, we’re not really surfaced, we only have a few masts sticking up out of the water of the North Atlantic Ocean. We’re still submerged. Due to heavy seas it was usually an extremely rough operation. This was not a cruise ship, we were a combat ship, so crew comfort is not a priority. Back aft in the engine room, because we were in the stern, when we snorkeled we got the most violent ride.

Our snorkel air induction mast had a valve at the top with three electric sensors. If any two of the three got wet the valve shut momentarily to prevent seawater from entering. Back in engineering, with the diesel firing away and consuming vast amounts of air, when that valve shut it would draw a vacuum in our compartment and cause our ears to pop badly, and practically suck the air out of our lungs.

However, our diesel loved being “loaded.“ It was like a working dog. If it idled it got cranky, but the more its power output was “potted” onto the main AC electrical buses the happier it got. That thing was a champ.

Machines have personalities.
Brick Meathook

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Sitting outside and I had to put a sweater on, so clearly global warming is a hoax.
Dunstan

My AC went out last night, so global warming is totally not a hoax.
BugEyedBoo

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The marine layer is underrated as a weird weather phenomenon. It’s no thunder snow, but it is still interesting and weird
Doktor Zymm

If weird weather delights you, you should experience some thrilling moments over the next few decades.
Viva La Tabula Raza

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I’m in Toledo visiting family for my wife’s great aunt’s 100th birthday.* Had to wait 2+ hours at the car rental place because they only had 2 people working the counter… on a Friday afternoon. Yeesh.

Weather’s nicer than Texas, at least.

*She’s not “lying in the bed, decrepit” 100. She’s “lives alone in her own house, still gardens and surfs the internet all the time, just bought another house” 100. Aunt Emily’s one of the coolest people I’ve ever met.
Anthony In TX

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I almost screamed “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?!?” at the ‘you must be logged in to comment’ AI, just in case you were wondering how I’m doing.
Horatio Cornblower

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Canuck men haven’t won a medal yet. sarcasm alert Even though the swim team featured Brent Hayden, a dude that bronzed way back in 2012 (London) and was retired for seven years. At 37 years young, he’s the best on offer for the team. Multiple lifeguards were employed when he swam his heat.
scotchnaut

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A little too on the nose.

Mr. Ayo

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Went to the Bengals Open Practice this afternoon. Burrow looked okay, well, Training Camp Okay. His passes looked the same when he had two good knees. Fans still optimistic, but Mike Brown’s minions are already in mid season form. It took 30 minutes for them to let in about a 10,000 to 20,000 people. Eventually, they gave up and just let us in since the tickets were free and 65,000 people weren’t showing up to watch 90 people practice, while COVID-19’s Entrance Music was blaring.

The Bengals’ stadium itself looked pretty good. It doesn’t have the open feel as Reds’ ballpark, but its not that bad really. Hopefully with the Ring of Honor, they’ll try to improve it, assuming they don’t pull a Baltimore Colts and leave for San Diego in the cover of night in about five years. With the exception of my first seat. I was sitting in the corner, and the P.A. sounded like I was hearing the same thing five times a second apart. I felt like Peter Parker or Clark Kent when their Spider-Hearing/Super-Hearing started to kick in for the first time.
Redshirt

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Getting ready to make soondubu from last week’s Sunday Gravy.

I’m going with uncooked, shell-on shrimp (to be cooked in the broth for maximum flavoUr), some oyster mushrooms, firm tofu, and yes, MOAR garlic and gochugang than yeah right or the Surgeon General advise.
Dunstan

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August 1, 2021 5:30 pm
I suppose I should save this for Sexy Friday, but it’s legit interesting, too:

Pulp Librarian on Twitter: “Many readers have asked me about the raft of lesbian pulp novels published in the ’50s and ’60s. How did they come about? And did they actually change people’s attitudes to same-sex relationships? Let’s look back at the lesbian pulp explosion and try to uncover its legacy… https://t.co/S337Q8efyE” / Twitter
Dunstan

“‘Hmmm. Lesbian pulp explosion? Seems interesting. Can I get that with a side of ranch dip?”

-A. Reid
scotchnaut

I saw Lesbian Pulp Explosion play Lillith Fair once, they were great.
Dunstan

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Did Taj use the sauce on the pork chops? Next time rib-eye or NY strip go on sale, I’m making this sauce. Hope I can find that mustard, or “mustid”, as my people say, in our little one horse town.

Just want to thank you for all the work that goes into these. I’m constantly scouring the archives when I’m planning the week’s meals, which is now🤓.

One of the many reasons I love your recipes is that there aren’t ads flashing and hopping all over the (goddamn) screen causing my tablet to be in a constant state of reloading. Here, I can take my time, enjoy the prose, study the photos and get fucking inspired. I guess Our Internet Dad is to thank for this, and it is MIGHTILY appreciated on this end.
Fronkenshteen

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Canuck Announcer: “Dr. Harold Shipman was a prolific serial killer. Imagine if Wayne Gretzky preferred the taste of human blood instead of scoring goals and you’d have some idea as to the number of lives Shipman ended!”
scotchnaut

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Coach Zimmer has been raining almighty fury about Cap’n Dingleberry and his mah fReeDum! pals
King Hippo

So when blaxito turned 3, as agreed with the Mrs, I reevaluated my position on the stupid vaccine. I still think it’s stupid but the nurse wife pretty much had the leverage on me that I had to get the shot. Not happy about it. Not excited about it. But it’s done.

Point is, Walgreens gave me the card then I had to wait like ten minutes for the shit. Why don’t these guys just get the card and not the shot and move on? It doesn’t matter if you actually get the shot. Just do the bare minimum and move on.
blaxabbath

Aside from Gumbygirl, I think it’s a safe rule of thumb for any Glorious Commentist Party Member – whenever your spouse strenuously objects to your behavioUr and/or decisionmaking, just assume you are wrong.
King Hippo

Yeah she’s right. And what makes her right is she always gives me just enough rope to hang myself. And, like the good spouse I am, I never fail to slip that noose over my neck and execute a Shoulda-Been-Mike-Pence.
blaxabbath

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Great to see the USMNT win the cup. But starting to get really sick of the phrase “Big Boy Pants”

I just explained my aversion to the phrase “big boy pants” to The Good Mrs. Reefer.
She said that I would be hearing it a lot so I should just put on my big boy pants and get over it…

Damn, she’s good…
BeefReeferLives

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THIS GAME I CALL IT THE GADSDEN PURCHASE, BECAUSE MEXICANS ARE ARGUING ABOUT A DONE DEAL!!
Horatio Cornblower

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The US has blown so many chances in this game it may as well be Traci Lord’s quinceanara.
Horatio Cornblower

Well, this tweet aged about as well as most of Ms. Lord’s early film work.
Horatio Cornblower

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Optimism? I’ll bite. My wife and I have been leading separate lives in different locations for 3 1/2 years because our teenage kids are going to different high schools. We’ve spent the last two days mucking out one place and I think we just might be a family again very soon.
scotchnaut

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Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.

Stay busy and safe out there.

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