
Isn’t this less “suicide pact” than a form of Russian Roulette? Or Railroad Roulette, whatever? Because only one of them is going to die.

Isn’t this less “suicide pact” than a form of Russian Roulette? Or Railroad Roulette, whatever? Because only one of them is going to die.

If you build a hot tub right next to an adjoining home, and you don’t build an appropriately tall fence, it seems to me not only shouldn’t you be surprised if somebody’s watching you, but you probably want to be watched.

Never take “net profits.” Ever. She won’t ever see a cent (until Barney dies, of course, but that’s another matter)
(And yes, the doctor’s name is Captcha)




A couple of people sent me this for the Geezer file. I have to disagree because the reruns have never left us. Otherwise Lucretia wouldn’t be old enough to know what this was. Neither would I. Neither, I assume, would Barney, or the two people who sent this to me.
I also can’t go along with “violent,” because Ralph is all bluster and nobody takes any of it seriously.
I’m not sure I’d call it misogynist — but if it were, Alice’s comment about Ralph’s weight wouldn’t make it any less so.

I’d never heard of Ōmisoka until few days ago when I updated the site’s subject line. And today…
So I need to add a Baader-Meinhof tag.
And absolutely true story: I’d never heard of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon until last month, and then two days later…

This has already been sent to me as a CIDU twice today.
My aunt and uncle were married for over 60 years. My aunt is really, really smart, but… a bit on the gullible side. He would always be saying things… well, like this… and she’d always fall for it.
Toward the end of his life, when I saw him doing it again, I said “Uncle Doug, doesn’t this ever get old?” and he said “Nope. Never.”