You all know my kid is autistic and mostly non-verbal. He does speak around home, where he is most comfortable, I guess. He can name every dinosaur, but has never said his last name, didn't say his first name until he was five. One of his words that he will say is skank. You know, a long limbless reptile which has no eyelids, a short tail, and jaws that are capable of considerable extension. Some skanks have a venomous bite. It's fucking hilarious watching a movie with snakes in it this morning. "Watch out! Skank!"
I think you mean skink. A skank is a never-fail device used to cure the pain of being dumped by your girlfriend.
Part of me doesn't want to correct him until after we go to the science center, where he'll have the opportunity to innocently use skank in place of saying snake and making me giggle a lot. But I know I should correct it.
The human race, ladies and gentlemen. You take a quick forty-five year nap and microwaves still can’t handle metal, I guess.
A shopping plaza about 10 miles from here had a massive drive thru “trunk or treat” event today. They planned for a lot of kids, had traffic patterns all laid out, etc. What they didn’t account for was the number of shit birds that live around here. People began causing accidents and fighting so the police pulled the plug on the whole event. The DJ’s from the local radio station that helped organize it took to social media to scold the adults that couldn’t control themselves. I wish I could say I was surprised but I’m not. There’s so much trash living in this county anymore, we really can’t have nice things.
We said “not this year” and have only had a single group show up at 5:30... still daylight, lights off. Doesn’t help that we’re in a major construction zone so there are tons of new curbs, potholes, safety fences, exposed manhole covers, etc. Nobody in their right mind would even try our atea, COVID or not. Even then, COVID has made it a “hard no” this year.
Everyone in our neighborhood has a bowl of individual bags with 2-3 pieces of candy in each one and is setup in lawn chairs from a distance or just left their bowls at the bottom of their driveways. It was our town Select Board’s idea and people actually listened.
Man. It’s almost 10 pm and we are still getting people streaming in. I’m guessing over 500 people at least. I WOULD like to take this shit down eventually, people.
We had one "group". Couple kids 3 houses down showed up with no bags. I handed as much as their little hands could hold.
Dude... you can't set up your place well enough that it makes the news every year and then BITCH about people coming to see it. Congrats on the great turnout!
Thanks. There are still people outside photographing as I type this. I had to take down the electric/motion things, the rain will ruin them for sure. After that I’m stopping. I am drained, I’m having a few drinks and collapsing until morning.
I just bought the complete series of Rocky and Bullwinkle...including Dudley Doo Right, Fractured Fairy Tales, Sherman and whatever that kid's name was...
Trying to figure out how to pull a rabbit out of a hat? Apparently me asking all the Russians on my project to say “moose and squirrel” is frowned upon. Snowflakes. Congrats on the purchase... it’s a fun watch!
Snidely Whiplash is one of the greatest characters ever, right down to having the perfect name. The live action movie wasn’t very good, but Alfred Molina KILLED IT (does he ever not?) as Whiplash: