Tolley’s Topics Wishes A Happy Halloween To All You Little Monsters In Readerland

A little kid was out trick-or-treating on Halloween dressed as a pirate. He rang a house’s doorbell and the door was opened by a lady.

“Oh, how cute! A little pirate! And where are your buccaneers?” she asked.

The boy replied, “Under my buckin’ hat.”

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I generally avoid temptation unless
I can’t resist it.
Mae West

 

An African grey parrot, N’kisi, has a whopping 950-word vocabulary that even impressed the famous primatologist, Jane Goodall.

Despite being much smaller in size, the wolverine can successfully attack much larger animals including caribous and elk.

There’s a fish called the black dragon fish that looks like the creature from the Alien movies.

Some non-venomous snakes, like the Tiger Keelback, will actually protect their babies by eating poisonous frogs while being pregnant. They then pass the poison onto their eggs which makes their newborns poisonous when they’re born.

The grasshopper mouse is carnivorous, immune to venom, eats scorpions, and howls like a wolf to claim its territory.

 The Lord himself goes in front of you. He will always be with you, to help you. He will never leave you. So do not be afraid. Be brave!’

Three score and fifteen years ago, my Mother brought forth into this world, a new baby…… Me……All I can say at this point is, “What A Ride!”

I wore…Go-Go Boots, Saddle Oxford and Penny Loafer shoes, Bell bottoms, Tie-Dye T-Shirts, Mini-skirts, Maxi-skirts, Tight Sweaters, Bulky Sweaters, Mood Rings, and Love Beads.

I owned a Barbie Doll, Black Light & Glow in the dark posters, Old Maid Cards, Slinky, Lava lamp, an Ouija Board, Pet Rock, Nancy Drew Books, Paper Dolls, Puzzles, an 8X10 Glossy Picture Of Elvis and a Rubik’s Cube.

I have modeled so many hair styles….including, but not limited to…..Teased & Sprayed, Flat & Dippity-Dood, Layered & Wind-Blown, Curly, Straight, Long, Short, Frosted, Tipped, Colored, Bleached and Streaked.

I have survived Hair Ironing, The Twist and Limbo, Ear Piercing, Fake Nails, Blind Dates, Jumping off the Flat Shoals Bridge and using a shampoo called “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.”

I have driven behind hundreds of vehicles whose bumper sticker bragged about what they had on board (Baby On Board) while hundreds of others told me when they applied their brakes (I Brake for Unicorns, Railroad Tracks, etc). We all remember the most disgusting bumper sticker from yesteryear, the one that was eventually banned because it informed us that SHIT HAPPENS. Not to be outdone, the bumper sticker genius’s replaced it with Doo Doo Happens. My Other Car Is A Porsche, Mercedes, etc., remember those? Of that group, I liked the bumper sticker that read “My Other Car Is Also A Piece Of Junk.”

I have lived through Segregations, Integrations and  Liberations. I watched as a Gold Metal Olympic Winner morphed from  Bruce Jenner into Caitlyn Jenner. I have wondered how Elizabeth Warren could be a part-time Native American and  a Caucasian woman, Rachel Dolezal, could trick the NAACP into thinking she was an African-American. I watched as American cities burned because the dope addict George Floyd died of a confirmed drug overdose but a policeman went to jail for life as Floyd’s family got rich from their GoFundMe accounts. I watched the news as a former nurse, Lindsay Clancy, from Duxbury, Massachusetts admitted to strangling her three young children to death with exercise bands…then she jumped from a window to attempt suicide. (She failed at that, she should have jumped from a higher window or her roof.) Then, the only Juror who found her guilty is being harassed by the news media, the Pink Shirt Crowd and the Old Blue Hair Hippies on their walkers from the nursing homes.

Like I said…What A Ride! 

In my America, I have watched as massive demonstrations take place in defense of Gun Control, Defunding The Police, Abortions, Illegal Immigrants, Women, African Americans, Animals, LGBTQIA+(diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and biological sex characteristics.) We have more genders than we have mosquitos now. They march for defense of Black Lives Matter, Muslims, and Mothers murdering their children. Now, as I pointed out previously, they have even brought the old Hippies out of nursing homes on their walkers who have dyed their hair blue to march in protest for anything that The Soros Family will sponsor. 

In fact, there are only two groups that are not supported in America today. The first one defended and  made America great through all the major wars & created every patented invention from the Cotton Gin to Junipero Gin to the Internet & Cell Phone. The second one was used to reduce diseases. Those two FABULOUS groups are:

1. White Men
2. White Rats.

 

Baby elephants will suck on their trunks for comfort just like human babies suck on their thumbs.

The colossal squid has the largest eyes ever studies in the animal kingdom, measuring almost eleven inches, which is roughly the same size as a volleyball. In fact, researchers believe that they may be the largest eyes that ever existed.

Some sharks can live up to 100 years old. Although most of them live 20 to 30 years in the wild, some species, such as the spiny dogfish, live well beyond a hundred years.

Cats actually sweat through their paws. Cats do have sweat glands, but their skin is covered in fur, so the amount of cooling that the sweat glands can provide is minimal. The paw pads have the most sweat glands, so they mostly sweat there.

Rabbits have the ability to sleep with their eyes open. They go into a trance-like state, which is half-sleep. The benefit of this is in the wild; it allows them to get away from predators in a hurry.