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It is Wednesday! Time for our Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke! ============================================================= RIDDLES What do cats eat for breakfast? Mice Krispies! How do you stop an elephant from charging? Take away its credit card! Why do elephants have wrinkles? Elephants don't fit on the ironing board! Where can you learn to make ice cream? Sundae school! What instrument will you find in the bathroom? A tuba toothpaste! What's brown, hairy, and wears sunscreen? A coconut on vacation!

Creator Of One Of The World's Most Beloved Breakfast Treats Has Died William Post, one of the inventors of an iconic breakfast staple that's become an anytime snack with $1 billion in U.S. annual sales, has died. He was 96. Post, known to friends as "Bill," helped create the Pop-Tart, an idea he said most people couldn't get their heads around at the time. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/creator-one-worlds-most-beloved-050118754.html

That remains a great website. Amazing that any information squishes out of the DPRK at all. I'm also rather surprised that His Godship Li'l Porkchop hasn't decreed that everyone should have kids.

Yes, this is what the police reported. The BB obviously relied on the earlier reporting.

Good article! OK to merge it with this one? https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/811294-the-sickness-of-our-universities—and-the-cure/

United Nations Warns Israeli Attack On Rafah Could Lead To More Hostages Being Rescued NEW YORK, NY — Officials with the United Nations are condemning the Israeli attack on Rafah to rescue two hostages, warning that such attacks could lead to even more hostages being rescued. "These atrocious and inhumane rescue missions cannot be allowed to continue," said Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/united-nations-warns-israeli-attack-on-rafah-could-lead-to-more-hostages-being-rescued

Houston PD Says We May Never Know Motive Of Church Shooter Who Wrote 'Free Palestine' On Gun HOUSTON, TX — As investigators continue to put together the pieces of the puzzle left behind by the shooting at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, Houston Police said they may never know the motive of the shooter who wrote "Free Palestine" on his gun. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/houston-pd-says-we-may-never-know-motive-of-church-shooter-who-wrote-free-palestine-on-gun

This is tiny in comparison with the usual critters in Ecu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venomous 1-foot-long creature found hunting in forest of Ecuador. It's a new species In a forest of Ecuador, a roughly 1-foot-long creature with spiky "eyelashes" perched on a plant and waited. The venomous animal was hunting, but what came along next was not a meal. Scientists encountered the patient predator and captured it. It turned out to be a new species. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/venomous-1-foot-long-creature-221323015.html

Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: We were delayed getting out, Uncle T-B.'s CD came through and we online-supported him man. Lunch (at normal time, imagine that man!) was the remaining 2 corn dogs from Two Guys week, ingest we man. Left after noon, good grief man. Went to favorite large thrift store, discount day man. Got Mini-B. Many (2+2+2) short pants, Many (2+2) shirts, and an underwear, purchase we man. A couple of pants/shirts were men's size, little wee man growing up man . Got ourself an underwear, purchase we man. Total amount was $Many ($2x2x2x2x2 + 2+2+2), si man; discount saved us $Many ($2x2x2x2 +1), whee man. Presidents' Day will be half-off entire store, but a complete madhouse, jammed with fat Mexicanas man. Went to Costco Business Center, cash out annual rebate man. Rebate was $Many, pretty good man. We spent $Many, about Many % of the rebate man. Went to regular Costco, look for 2 items man. They had one, on sale man. They did not have the desired burgers for Two Guys weeks, uh-oh man. Din-din (at Many [2+1] p.m.) was the Costco hot dog + Pepsi, too good a deal to pass up while there man. At the casa, put away stuff after servicing demanding miu, treats/lunch Daddy man. Got siesta of less than an hour, sucks but every zzz helps man. Diligently combed Mini-B.'s short pants, measure length of every one man. Also went through his short-sleeved shirts, wee man refuses to wear some* man. *anything too small; with more than a tiny logo; slightest hint of V-neck; etc. man We shall take the Many (2x2x2 +2+2) pants, Many (2x2x2) shirts, and a long pants to the kids' resale place, financially savvy Business Typhoon we man. Don't know if we'll get up early enough to do it Wednesday before seeing Mama T-B., need all energy for that encounter we man. We are debating a possible second din-din, possibly ingest we man. We are considering at least 2 sandwiches of cotto salami, drool and slaver and slobber we man. Wednesday is V.D., Amateur Night man. It's also Two Guys eve, Two Guys man. The demanding rubias can go suck eggs, all of them fully replaceable man. We might cavort with them later tonight just to show them what they'll be missing, so there man.

She's an unattractive sow who verbally abuses at least her youngest child, yuck man. Her kids are sullen and depressed, great parenting skills man. Even we don't eat delivery/carry-out food every day, no man. You see above, see man!

Safari 17.3.1 -- have had no issues since the automatic update to that version.

Biden Says He's Looking Forward To A Great Super Bowl Tonight [...] Addressing members of the media on Monday morning following a weekend of growing concerns over his mental competency, Biden shrugged off the criticism and expressed his excitement to watch the big game tonight. "Looks like it's going to be a good one, folks," Biden said. "I was just talking to my good friend Vince Lombardi last week, and he said [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-says-hes-looking-forward-to-a-great-super-bowl-tonight

Canada Sees Record Crossings As Illegal Immigrants See US Northern Border As 'Plan B' [...] It appears that, for immigrants who are intent on breaking into the United States, if crossing the southern border is too difficult -- hard to believe -- there is always the U.S. northern border. [...] https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/02/12/illegal-immigrants-see-us-northern-border-as-plan-b-as-northern-states-see-record-border-crossings-n2169993

Biden a Complete Mess as He Gets Confused, Makes Concerning Comments With Jordan's Leader Joe Biden met with King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday and it was bad, even by Joe Biden standards. [...] https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/12/biden-mess-with-king-abdullah-n2170016

Hamas Member Reveals That Organization's Goal Is Not Just to Free 'Palestine' Virtually every political and media analyst in the Western world agrees that Hamas is a national liberation movement, dedicated to freeing Palestine from an alleged Israeli occupation. Most also assume that if the Palestinians are given a state, Hamas' mission will end, and the organization will fade away. A video that surfaced Saturday, however, suggests that all of that analysis, despite being nearly universally accepted, is false. [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/02/12/hamas-member-reveals-that-organizations-goal-is-not-just-to-free-palestine-n4926375

Eye-opening comments from the young women who were interviewed, but what other result could be expected? Comments on this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When the State Engineers Families, Family Structure Eventually Breaks Apart [...] China's getting older rapidly and just waking up to the fact that they don't have enough people to replace themselves. When you're a country bent on world domination, that's a calculus guaranteed to jack with your plans. [...] https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/02/12/when-the-state-engineers-families-family-structure-eventually-breaks-apart-n3782834

It's Been a Rough Week for What's Left of the Mighty British Navy [...] this has to be mortifying for Brits who still give a flying fig about their proud military history. [...] https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/02/12/its-been-a-rough-week-for-whats-left-of-the-mighty-british-navy-n3782829

One of the precious few times when National Review makes sense. Note their obligatory slam at Trump. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joe Biden Should Step Aside Joe Biden is a crisis in the making. The last president to run for reelection who was so obviously incapable of serving another four years was FDR in 1944. But Roosevelt was in the midst of ably managing a world war and, as it turned out, chose his vice president wisely. [...] https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/joe-biden-should-step-aside/

How cool to randomly come across something so small! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hiker in Israel discovers ancient scarab dating back nearly 2,800 years A small sparkling item seen by a hiker in Israel turned out to be an ancient scarab dating back nearly 2,800 years. Erez Avrahamov, a 45-year resident of Padoel, was hiking Tabor Stream Reserve in the Lower Galilee in Israel when he stumbled upon something unusual. It could have easily been overlooked, measuring around the size of a fingernail, but once Avrahamov picked up the item and took a closer look, he knew he had found something special. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/hiker-israel-discovers-ancient-scarab-131021577.html

Thrilling Monday report, see man: Got embedded at half-past 2 a.m. and awoke at Many (2x2x2 +1) a.m., zzz we man. Today was monthly bulk-trash collection, anything too big for curbside bins man. We have routinely curbsided our regular garbage, and they collect it, opportune we man. They have taken things as big as sofas, fun to see the truck blades crush those man. Relevant rant #1 with background, see and man: Our next-door neighborette moved in perhaps Many years ago, si man. She has Many (2+1) kids, all (plus her) fat as pigs man. Kids are markedly sullen and even ignore friendly greetings, sigh man. Neighborette is pleasant enough to us if we speak to her, si man. However, when we're outside at 1 a.m., we can hear her screaming psychotically* at the youngest, wow man. *we've been strongly tempted to call the cops, that level of psycho man Their entire diet is 'za and Doordash food, observe personally we man. No father figure has ever been around except for a young hood-rat who briefly moved in, sad man. They had a free-standing Spalding basketball hoop** in their driveway, ugly and mammoth man. **Mini-B.'s is on our back patio, much more appropriate man They neglected to fill the base with water or sand***, man. ***we filled ours with water as part of installation, duh man Their apparatus therefore fell over during a winter windstorm, backboard shattered man. They threw out the shattered backboard pieces almost immediately, fit in garbage bin man. The useless rest of it has been lying on its side in their driveway ever since, many weeks man. Today, they curbsided it for bulk collection, but all in one piece, man. We saw the garbage guys slap a yellow sticker on it, couldn't take it unless disassembled man. The apparatus is now dragged back onto their driveway, will probably sit there for weeks man. (These are the same people who let their dog poop in our back yard through a busted fence, sigh man.) We're tempted to call the HOA, enough is enough man. However, the risks the HOA's nailing us for something, never invite busybodies over man. We're wondering what our options are, si man. Breakfast/lunch (at 2 p.m.) was Subway****, ingest we man. ****bought WUOC, financially savvy we man Rant #2, see and man: Mama T-B. gave us some bags full of papers to shred, old bank statements et al. man. These dated from 2 to Many (2x2x2x2 -2) -- si man, Many (2x2x2x2 -2) -- years ago, man. She calls us and says, "I want those shredded today -- today, si man!" aysheep senior she man. We said that we were doing it and that there was no need to go aysheep, si and no man. Our shredder overheated several times, wait half an hour each time we man. We had to dump the shredder bin Many (2+2) -- si man, Many (2+2) -- times, si man. Despite our bagging efforts, some spilled onto our recently maid-cleaned floor, man. As we swept it up, miu decided to play in it, skid it across floor and get caught in miu-fur man. Din-din was a square of carrot cake donated by Mama T-B., ingest we man. Rant #Many (2+1), see and man: Mini-B. is now boycotting any short pants less than Many (2x2x2x2 +2+2) inches long, picky wee man. Of course, most of his pants are Many (2x2x2x2 +2+1) inches long, man. We shall therefore go to favorite large thrift shop on Tuesday during discount day, $i and $igh man. Of course, Mama T-B. wants us to come over to help her buy a CD, stop the world for this man. Rant #Many (2+2), see and man: The rubias are pestering us about what we're going to do for them on V.D., Wednesday man. They will not shut up, bothersome rubias man. The obvious V.D. gift is a personal case of V.D., obvious man. We're tempted to suspend cavorting until we can contract V.D. to give them on V.D., that's one idea man. The other idea is to find new and less-demanding rubias, leaning this direction we man. Advice is solicited, si man.

Indecent, if we look at how much Mama T-B.'s place charges her for it, $$$$$igh man. She was more concerned with Mini-B., see man: "I think he'll like this better than last time's, si man. Oh, and you can get one for yourself, too, si man."

What the dickens is this? Some furrin language? English-only outside the regional forums! Reported!!!!!!!

The only British-English word/spelling worth keeping is "tyre," si man. The time in writing and typing that we bloody Colonists have saved by eliminating the superfluous "U" from all your words is why we Colonists have the greatest nation ever (well, pre-Bidementia) and why the sun has set on the British Umpire.

Wishing you perfect closure, si DA man. Enjoy friends and the holiday, si DA man. We meant to tell you that Carolinian English is not so much a dialect as it is a throat disease, si DA man. We lived in Charlotte Many years ago, we speak from experience man.

Good luck, and keep us apprised.