JD Salinger had an early draft of The Catcher in the Rye in his bag with him when he took part in the Normandy Landings  in 1944. 

John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog.

Carrie, Stephen King’s debut novel, was fished out of his trash bin by his wife after he originally discarded it.

Despite popular belief, there are not 1,001 stories in the Arabian Nights collection. The 900 or so stories instead were said to have originally been read over 1,001 nights.

In an early version of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” the bird that repeatedly croaks “nevermore” was going to be a parrot. A meeting with Charles Dickens convinced Poe to change his mind, as Dickens had a pet raven at the time.

Bibliosmia is the name given to the scent of old books.

Harry Potter creator, JK Rowling, is popularly said to be the first author in history to make $1 billion from book sales alone.

Ray Bradbury’s original title for his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman.

Jane Austen’s original title for Pride and Prejudice was First Impressions.

I can resist anything  except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Trump plans to rebrand ICE.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/05/trump-just-gave-us-a-look-into-the-ice-rebrand-n2675588

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What a poor excuse for a judge.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/04/wait-a-judge-did-what-to-the-guy-who-tried-to-assassinate-trump-n2675515

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Baby Dangerfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK5TzbAWw0

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Lock her up.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/02/us-news/ilhan-omars-name-came-up-6-times-in-resurfaced-trial-exhibits-from-feeding-our-future-fraud-case/

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What a joke.   The Democrats and Hollywood types are the biggest dividers in America.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/03/mallory-mcmorrow-interview-n2201954

 

The Trump Ballroom.

https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/01/this-is-the-real-reason-the-democrats-hate-president-trumps-ballroom-n4952410

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Other than replacing the Socialist-Democrats the one thing to do is keep Federal Taxpayer Money away from them.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/05/ahmed-abdullah-osman-seattle-cctv-refugees-n2675546

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/02/reporter-asks-seattle-mayor-a-question-n2201928

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The Democrats and media say, there are no problems with voting security.   

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/05/01/west-coast-messed-coast-suddenly-stealing-elections-just-became-much-much-harder-n4952401

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McDonald’s is ending self-service sodas.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/business/mcdonalds-is-quietly-ditching-a-popular-in-store-feature-nationwide/

Their biggest rival is closing 700 locations.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/business/mcdonalds-biggest-us-rival-shutters-over-700-restaurants/

Bezos is selling his mega-yacht.

https://pagesix.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-news/jeff-bezos-is-selling-his-500-million-superyacht-koru/?_gl=1*6g4omp*_ga*NTg1MzMxMTkyLjE3NzIyMTkxMjU.*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3Nzc4OTY4Njgkbzg2JGcxJHQxNzc3ODk4MTkwJGo1OSRsMCRoMA

Give the family guy a medal.   Some people are learning to lock their cars when they are inside.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/05/05/alleged-carjacker-shot-dead-by-father-while-trying-to-steal-vehicle-with-family-inside/

A good policy.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/05/trump-just-brought-back-a-major-initiative-that-obama-killed-n2675586

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The Science Editor:   What is up, LL ?

The Maybe Cat:    I guess it means ‘above something else’.    Here is what Webster says.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up

This is for reference only.

https://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/grammar/parts_of_speech.html

As an adverb it could mean–the sun came up or sit up.

As an adjective it might mean the corn is up.

I always liked ‘liquored up’ in Westerns, before the mob stormed the jail.

A great adverb is ‘uptown’.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=uptown+girl+song+billy+joel#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ab4c7cb2,vid:xUZ2TYsEM5Y,st:0

Downtown is a good song, but most cities have lost the ‘downtown’ excitement to other places.

Be careful.

https://theonion.com/report-you-probably-due-to-experience-big-life-tragedy-soon-sub-its-been-a-while/

https://www.bbc.com/news/england/london

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Trump is the man.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-enters-ceasefire-talks-with-democrats

https://townhall.com/

The roof painter

The Cat Who Made A Bad Decision

Mark with a “C”

The classic cake failure

The learning curve

Another cat who made a bad decision

A story in 4 parts

The squirrel who fell

The stapler from floor four

Grown ass man stuck in playground

School teachers?

The thought Process

 💮 Law of equality :

 The time taken by a wife when she says I’ll get ready in 5 min is exactly equal to the time taken by husband when he says ‘I’ll call u in 5 min!

  💮 Law of Queue:

 If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

 💮 Law of Telephone:

 When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy tone.😅

 💮 Law of Mechanical Repair:

 After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

 💮 Law of the Workshop:

 Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.😐

 💮Bath Theorem:

 When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

 💮 Law of Encounters:

 The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

 💮 Law of the Result:

 When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

 💮 Law of Bio mechanics:

 The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

 💮 Theater Rule:

 People with the seats at the farthest from the entry arrive last. 😅

 💮 Law of Coffee:

 As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. 😩

 💮 Law of Proposal :

 After u accept a proposal you will get a better one…😜

The secret to happiness is
low expectations.
Warren Buffett

Agatha Christie is popularly said to be the bestselling literary author of all time. Her 85 novels have sold an estimated three billion copies worldwide.

The single bestselling book of all time is the Bible.

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, the authors of The Lord of the Rings and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, were best friends.

The earliest known use of the word “hobbit” in print dates from 1897-40 years before JRR Tolkien’s book was published.

Sixty five years before Dr. Seuss wrote How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudyard Kipling used the word “grinch” as a verb meaning to crush or grate in 1892.

The English novelist Enid Blyton, known for the Famous Five books, published 762 books in her lifetime.

Roald Dahl was inspired to write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because British chocolate company Cadbury used to send boxes of chocolates to his school as a child to test.

In none of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels does Sherlock Holmes ever say “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs And Ham after his publisher bet him that he couldn’t write a story using no more than 50 different words.

PIZZA AND OTHER RECALLS.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/frozen-pizza-sold-walmart-aldi-recalled-over-salmonella-concerns

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The Secret Service is still rotten to the core.    Don’t tell me they work long hours and are away from their families.   Put them on the USS Gerald Ford.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/04/secret-service-agent-arrested-public-masturbation-miami/

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/aircraft-carrier-uss-gerald-r-ford-record/2026/04/15/id/1253083/

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Baby Trump and Baby King Charles.

This is what the Democrats want for America.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/04/30/canadas-newly-diverse-military-fights-itself/

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This is great if you can get the law enforced—SEE JOE BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT OPEN BORDER POLICY.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/01/indiana-employers-n2675304

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Another fool elected by other fools.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/05/01/secwar-pete-hegseth-gives-sara-jacobs-a-lesson-on-what-hypocrisy-looks-like-n2201898

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Take his parking space away and move his office to the basement.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/01/business/how-to-convince-jerome-powell-to-leave-the-fed-take-away-his-parking-spot/

Poisoning of baby food in Austria.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/austrian-police-detain-suspect-in-case-of-rat-poison-found-in-baby-food-jars-on-supermarket-shelves/

Seattle loses another.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/03/elite-skyscraper-club-now-closing-amid-seattle-downturn-n2201949

Some people just can’t function in society.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-news/entitled-delta-passenger-causes-plane-to-return-to-agte-after-refusing-to-hang-up-phone-before-takeoff/

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One more time, state and national politicians come from cities.   Give strangers your house key or bank account number.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/04/los-angeles-democrats-seek-to-open-door-to-foreigners-voting-in-city-elections/

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The Old Editor:    What are your memes today, LL ?

The Goldie Oldie Cat:    They are some old hits.    The first is our Olympic Gold Medal Meme.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXr1nhuW0AEP85_?format=jpg&name=medium

Joe reading a map of where Hunter left his cocaine and gun.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgU9BC2a0AA-xMx?format=jpg&name=900×900

You can add the despots in Iran and Venezuela.

https://tolleystopics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/18266.jpg

ICE drop box—-like the Democrat Ballot Boxes.

https://tolleystopics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/01jz255zt2akccts7y641y8m7p.jpeg

It’s science.

https://tolleystopics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/01jssetf00txek5vp1r5fr5xvz.jpeg

Times are a changing.

https://theonion.com/regulars-angry-dive-bar-now-popular-enough-to-be-financially-solvent/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/

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Help the Babylon Bee.

https://babylonbee.com/news/10-amazing-organizations-funded-by-the-splc

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