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Slender waists, AND small, proportional, shapely asses.

F dat Kim Kardashian bull chit.
Does Calcasieu Parish report moving violations to the Office of Motor Vehicles, therefore adding it to your driving record?

Some parishes and small towns don't, and if that is the case, pay your $200-ish dollar fine and walk away otherwise unscathed.
If I do make it to 300, I will be a few weeks shy of turning 116, so I think it is a safe to say, "No; I won't be there."

My grandsons, though, should be 62, 60, and 58 ( with 59 being a few months away), so for them, assuming we still have a recognizable country, I hope they get to share the day with their grandkids.
Given Beth and Rip's characters, as well as what we came to expect on Yellowstone, I shouldn't have been surprised, yet I was.

Several very contentious scenarios were set up that should make for some compelling TV next season.

I do have one question that I hope is appropriately vague: near the end of the episode, was Rip at the burial site of his diseased cattle, or was it the 10 Petal, Beulah's ranch? It was dark, and somewhat indistinguishable.

re: For those 60 and up

Posted by ronniep1 on 7/3/26 at 11:20 pm to
I was 16 in '76, so I remember it well. Yes, we were more united as a country, but companies and businesses over-hyped the shite out of it, too. Ads for tires, TV's, cars, and damn near everything had the word "Bicentennial" attached to it. About the only product I didn't see was Bicentennial toilet paper.

I love this country, but honestly, I was happy when the calendar turned to July 5th, as I had a bad case of Bicentennial fatigue.
IMO, more than anything else, Tony Spell and Woody Jenkins, Siamese twins joined at the penis and anus, are primarily concerned with self promotion and narcissism.

Nothing is beneath either individual if it keeps them in the news with others continuing to talk about them.
And I bitch about my $90 water, sewer, garbage bill. Water averages $18 - $19, and the rest is sewer & garbage.
Whether it is the Iranian Guard, Hezbollah, Hamas, The Houthis, or all of the above, if we know that missiles were launched from a particular site or area, why don't we strike power plants supplying that area?

If we'd do that a few times, I'd think someone would finally get the message and stop this shite unless they want the entire country to "go dark."

I've heard it suggested that taking out power plants would be considered a war crime. IF this is true, how do we punish the perpetrators to the point that they finally stop?

re: Tony Spell arrested for Battery!

Posted by ronniep1 on 6/23/26 at 7:28 pm to
This may be a technicality, but since Tony is paid by his congregation/parishoners, but isn't it all "church money?"

Semi Trucks Passing Each Other

Posted by ronniep1 on 6/21/26 at 11:37 am
A comment below about big trucks hogging the left lane reminded me of a question regarding these trucks: do they have governors or other devices that limit their top speed?

I have a part time retirement job delivering and picking up vehicles for a dealership, and it aggravates me to no end when one truck passes another and it takes a long time to accomplish the move. Very often a backup accumulates behind the passing vehicle as it slowly creeps ahead of the truck in the right lane.

If they are speed limited, given the abilities of modern electronics, I wish something could be programmed to allow temporary bursts of power or speed so that a passing maneuver did not take 5 minutes.

So FWIW, that's my first world trivial problem of the day . . .
Charo resembles a ventriloquist's doll.

She used to be a very attractive woman. Now, though, she looks totally fake and plastic.
"We go from there."

My brother drives me crazy with that oft spoken phrase.
Though there will never be another Paul McCartney, IMO, it's time for him to retire. Two or so weeks ago, he was the musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and one of his backup singers helped on the high notes, masking Paul's inability to still hit those notes.

18 months ago, I think, McCartney was the musical guest SNL's Christmas show. For that performance, he did all the singing alone, and badly missed the higher notes.

Paul will forever be rock/pop royalty, he was a member of a genre changing band in The Beatles, and with John Lennon, he was arguably one the best ever writers/composers.

But with all those accolades and honors, there's something to be said for knowing when to call it quits. IMO, when it comes to Mr McCartney, he is long past his "best if used by" date.
Stanchions at concession stands are desperately needed for halftime of SEC games. It is damn aggravating to attempt to go to the bathroom, only to have to break through multiple lines across the entire concourse width of people trying to get concessions.

Use the damn stanchions, let people line up in a more efficient manner, and let people move to the next open cashier or station rather than being stuck forever in one slow moving line.

They're probably not needed for in-state, or rent-a-win games, but I'd advise using them anyway so people don't forget.
Those sum-bitches are building subdivisions in my yard, with a small mound only a few inches away from a larger mound.

Is all the rain in the B.R. area affecting how fast they are spreading?

I keep spreading ant poison, but all it seems to do is to drive them a few inches away where they start over with a new mound.
Yes - Absolutely worth it. Because I have a gas stove/oven, I have a 20 Kw Kohler generator that runs everything else. I got it in '22. Luckily there's not been a serious hurricane hit Baton Rougr since then, but I've occasionally had power outages for several hours and I've been glad to still have A/C or heat.

A few times when the generator had been on, I've been something of a dick because I have turned on my porch lights while the rest of the street is dark.
Apparently greed makes people stupid, as this is not the first story I've read in which people, going for "minimal" amounts of money get exposed, or found out, for much larger sums.

While $77,000 is a quite the payday for most of us, it represents only 2 tenths of 1% if you're already sitting on $40,000,000.

I'm not endorsing the man's theft, but I am shaking my head at his inability to "know when to say when."
You have my sympathy. My 1978 graduation was held in the badly overcrowded gym at Central High (Baton Rouge). Whatever the gym's capacity was, there were at least 50% more people jammed in. Because of overcrowding, and the A/C's inability to overcome so much CO2 (hot breath) and body heat, the gym was miserably hot.

I can't imagine having to tolerate the heat AND a stench reminiscent of a 5 day dead animal. I'm glad you survived to tell the tale.

re: Will Wade lands another one

Posted by ronniep1 on 5/19/26 at 6:46 pm to
It's possible I've posted this already, but I'm gonna need a Pronunciation guide for all the names we've signed for this year's team!
His jeans are only starched up to the knee. That's lazy. If you're gonna use starch, bring it all the way up to the crotch/pockets. That's how my mom did it 55 or so years ago.
My wife is a (sarcastically) recycling Nazi, so we'll keep various things (batteries, compact fluorescent lights, etc) for months in an attempt to find a CONVENIENT way or place to turn them in.

Recently, though, between scheduling collection days maybe once or twice a year, long and slow lines at LSU, and several stores not accepting, say, old medicines, batteries, and CFL's even though web sites say "bring it here" we've taken a different approach.

Simply put, it all goes into the garbage can now. I'm more than willing to do reasonable things to recycle, but when it becomes unreasonable, and inconvenient, I'm not going out of my way, and wasting hours, to comply with a pain-in-the-arse procedure.