I knew if I held on a little longer, I would witness a valid argument in favor of plastic!
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Monday Morning Meme Madness
Hell hath no fury…..
A sixteen year-old boy came home with a brand new Ford F150. His parents look at the truck and ask, “Where did you get that truck?!”
“I bought it today,” he says.
“With what money?” says his mother.
They knew what a new F150 cost.
“Well,” he says, “this one cost me just fifteen dollars.”
The father looks at him like he’s crazy.
“Who would sell a truck like that for fifteen dollars?” he says.
“It was the lady up the street,” says the boy. “I don’t know her name – they just moved in. She saw me ride past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy her F150 for fifteen dollars.
“Oh my Goodness!” says the mother. “Maybe she’s mentally ill or has Alzheimer’s something. John, you better go see what’s going on.”
So the boy’s father walks up the street to the house where the lady lives and finds her out in the yard calmly planting petunias.
He introduces himself as the father of the boy to whom she had sold a new Ford F150 truck for fifteen dollars and asks to know why she did it.
“Well,” she says, “two days ago my husband left on a business trip. Yesterday I got a phone call from his boss and found out that he really ran off to Hawaii with his secretary and doesn’t intend to come back.”
“Oh, my goodness, I’m so sorry,” the father says. “But what does that have to do with my son and your truck?”
“Well, this morning he called and told me he was stranded because he got robbed of his wallet with all his credit cards and cash. He told me to sell his new F150 and send him the money. So I did.”
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Fun Facts: Airplanes & Airports Part 4
In September of 1940, two planes collided over Brocklesby, Australia, their engines interlocked, and the top plane’s engines stopped working. The engines on the plane underneath continued to work and the pilot of that craft landed both planes safely and all four crewmen survived.
Planes used to be a lot more comfortable. In the 1940’s, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser had reclining club chairs throughout the cabin. On intercontinental flights, every seat could adjust into a bed so that each passenger could sleep.
Sir Richard Branson once lost a bet with Air Asia’s CEO, Tony Fernandes, on the winner of the 2010 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. He had to work as a flight attendant on Tony’s airline from Perth to Kuala Lumpur.
The SR-71 Blackbird was the world’s fastest air-breathing, man-made aircraft and outran 4,000 missiles fired at it during its service.
Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom
Success is like a great haircut- it takes time, skills, effort, and a little trimming…and sometimes fixing the irreversible mess you made.
Anonymous
I was surprised…
Just found out the local barber
has been arrested for selling drugs.
I’ve been a customer of his for 15 years
and I didn’t even know he cut hair.
THE SPHINX—WHAT IS BIG ENOUGH
California measles.
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Don’t turn your back on the Democrats.
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Newscum’s comment on the Reflecting Pool.
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Amazon passes Walmart as number one.
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Elton wants a little more equality.
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Ohio Medicaid frauds.
A future bomber is stopped.
It is almost impossible to change anything about anyone over 25, unless they have a disaster in their life.
One viewpoint.
Will Supergirl be a BOMB.
Jobs creation in May.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/06/05/trump-boom-america-created-172000-jobs-in-may/
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The Urban Editor: Are cities ever big enough, LL ?
Trapped In Traffic Cat: Most cities reported in the major news outlets are WAY to big. Take Chicago, NYC, and Los Angeles as examples.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities
They are largely unfit for raising a family. They are concrete rat mazes with unqualified political leaders. The schools have more students than some prisons. Laws aren’t enforced, and teachers are union members who teach sex change abuse on minors.
Rapid transit is a daily chance to get robbed, stabbed, or set on fire. Most of them dump half clean water back into the rivers or ocean.
Maybe Charlotte can make a difference.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/real-estate/charlotte-is-approaching-a-population-of-1-million/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachtree_City,_Georgia
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A repeat.
https://babylonbee.com/news/everyone-in-chicago-shot-over-the-weekend
https://www.chicagotribune.com/
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Mousse Man.
https://genesiustimes.com/gavin-newsoms-state-budget-includes-33000-for-a-portrait-of-himself/
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet R3 PanSTARRS Through Time
Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Kuřák & Martin Mašek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Explanation: What happens to a comet as it leaves our inner Solar System? Now, the arrival of a comet into the inner Solar System is typically heralded with great fanfare and high hopes that the comet will become bright and photogenic. But on the way out, the comet’s nucleus is less warmed by the Sun, less gas and dust are expelled, the bright coma around the nucleus shrinks and fades, and the tail length drops off. Many comets will then return to the outer Solar System and only return in hundreds or thousands of years. In contrast, some comets — like Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) — receive a gravitational kick from the planets and so will never return. Pictured, Comet R3 PanSTARRs was imaged deeply many nights in early to mid-May near Cerro Paranal in Chile. Later images appear closer to the top and clearly show the shrinking ion tail.
Tomorrow’s picture: heady Thor
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