This borders on needing the Geezer tag, I think.
Category / Bill Bickel
[OT] Okay, honest answers here…
Am I the only person surprised to find out that Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Whitey Ford are all still with us rather than playing in the Field of Dreams?
Fun Fact [OT]
Back in the day, it was common for people to walk around carrying modesty armadilloes.
You thought I was behind on responding to e-mail before…
I’ll be roasting in Dallas this week, and I probably won’t be dealing with anything CIDU-related until the pop-up timer comes up through my belly button.
Death says “Relax”
Not singling out B.C. here, but… Is it my imagination, or have there been a lot of “Death says ‘Relax'” gags lately? I’m pretty sure we just had two near- identical “Relax, I’m just here for your houseplants” gags.
Back to School
Actually, once you’re a parent, that’s often replaced by Christmas-level anticipation.
Incredibly OT baseball-related trivia
As far as anybody knows, this is the oldest (surviving) photo of somebody “giving the finger.”
Why Charles Radbourne, standing at the far left in this team photo of the 1886 Boston Beaneaters (later the Braves), felt compelled to flip off the photographer is a matter lost to time.
Okay, here’s one that was queued up as a CIDU and just as I was about to post it, I went “Oh.”
Totally OT other than the fact that the lightning was why today’s CIDU went up half a day late
Okay, so big boom and the neighborhood went dark. Once power was restored and my wife switch on her computer (Compaq PC) this afternoon, this was the screen and the computer isn’t responding to any keyboard commands. We rebooted several times, with and without various accessories attached.
Any suggestions other than “Well, the computer lived a long and full life”?
(In hindsight we should have unplugged it to eliminate any chance of a sudden power surge doing damage, but that’s not the sort of thing you think of when everything’s dark at 4am)
Okay, not really synchronicity and off by quite a few years, but…
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