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Week 554 – Established Beasts, Superb Versions And Rest For Mickey Pearce.

Here we are at Week 554!

Okay, this may be a bit strong, but if any fucker tries to pull the wool over our eyes with some sort of AI, all I can say is I hope that you drown in the mess of your own pustules exploding!!!

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Week 553: Sunshine Squirrel v. Pulsar

Perstephanie

The young lady in the second image is “Peerless Perstephanie the Sunshine Squirrel of Twirl.” Her friends call her Percy. She holds the record for being the “spinniest” living creature known to Rodent-kind, and she is currently in training to break the record of fastest spinning object. (This is why she appears to be “shimmering”; or, perhaps, a shaky hand holding the phone contributed to the effect.)

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Week 552 – A Black And White Thief, A Couple Of Questions And Orange Juice.

Week 552

I think I learned something this week that surprised me.

…Should that be ‘learnt’?? I always get those two mixed up.

I was made aware that it’s only British folks who salute a lone Magpie.

Is that correct??

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Week 551: The Attack of the MWCM; The Week That Was; A Belated Happy 80th to Debbie

I was riding the bus last week when I was attacked by a MWCM, which stands for “Misty Water Colored Memory” (lifted from that gooey Barb song she sang before she got the perm that made her look like “Arnold Horshack” on Welcome Back Kotter–a dated reference but very true). As you have likely guessed MWCM is a sarcastic term. It defines an elderly concept in my “Ago” that is always attempting to change me into a sniveling old Shrew. We all have something like that inside (or will once fifty or so comes creeping), an ugsome, nettlesome something that (apparently) has invested heavily in old Shrew futures. I cannot kill mine but I can temporarily beat it to atoms by using my hard, old cold heart as a hammer. I often take satisfaction in imaginary acts of violence. They keep me balanced.

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Week 550 – 45 Wins!! I Enjoyed ‘The Natural’ Even Though The Two That Are Thought Of Are Immense And I Could Have Told Worse.

Here we are at Week 550!

Before I start…R.I.P Ricky Hatton and Robert Redford!!!

Both were legends in their own right!

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Week 549: “Be Nicer, Goddammit!”

The world has always been a snippy place (for instance, the title of this wrap was sneered at me by my boss in 1981. You can’t say stuff like that to employees anymore, but I am certain that the feeling is still felt). In big cities, especially, people go out in public with war faces on. Regardless, you used to be able to count on a reasonable degree of faked manners from clerks when you were shopping (I was often one of those clerks). Not anymore. Nowadays, it appears that the Corporate Stores hire only soulless people for customer service.

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Week 548 – The Simplicity Of The Choirboys, Concussion Did Us no Harm And A Blood Test Has No Comic Value.

Hello there folks and folkesses!

Not in a good mood this week. I hate what we have become.

There are those who worry far too much about consequence when there is none to worry about or none of it would matter anyway. It surprises me that some of them can manage to get out of bed with all the worry of ‘What if?’ or ‘I can’t offend.’

You may wonder what has enraged my already raged wrath and it may surprise you.

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Week 547: Scofflawing the Scythe

In 1978, at age twenty-one, my brother Jack blew the windows out of his small apartment when he attempted to light the pilot in his oven. He went from some windows to none very quickly. Somehow, he was neither singed nor injured by the brief fireball he described, but the windows did not hold up as well, nor did the landlord’s temper.

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Week 546 -Motorhomes, Fandabbydozzy And Eldorado Has It’s Place.

Hello there folks!

Here we are at Week 546. The year is fair flying in!

I’m trying something that I’ve not done before and I hope it works. You see, fingers crossed, this posting will have four clips on it!!

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Week 544 -More Blocking, Plasticine Creativity And Turn Away From The Rat.

Another week has come and gone!

I was interested to read Leila’s take on having nothing to write but having to write something.

I think the best tip I can give is, don’t think and then type, just type and then hopefully you will begin to think!

To be fair though, not thinking is my comfort zone!!

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