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May we return to funny pictures?

Really? Length has a tendency to change, but diameter stays pretty constant.

In the living room there's a wall switch. Just looking at it you think it makes no sense because there is no ceiling light. On the same wall as a switch there is one socket. And that switch turns the socket on and off. This comes in handy. I've got a little table sitting next to the wall with a little lamp on it, with about a 25 watt bulb in the lamp. And the lamp is turned on. But the switch is off so the light's not burning. When I leave the house at night, I flip that switch on, which turns the light on so there's a night light on in the house, and when I come home I won't trip over stuff. And it's so much simpler to flip on that light switch then to reach down there underneath the shade and find the push button on the lamp. But my previous house. Had it completely rewired in 91. It had been built in the 40s, and it was wired with two strand paper insulated 16 gauge wire. All of the bedrooms had a ceiling fan with a light kit. And I had them put in a double light switch. One turned on the light kit, and the other turned on the ceiling fan. There was none of this nonsense of having to have the light turned on and then turn on the fan by pulling the string. Just turn the switch on. After the old lady left and took the kids with her I turned one of the bedrooms into my office. And I noticed that one wall socket did not work. I had a radio plugged into it, and when I finally decided that it wasn't the radio problem I just left it there. Along comes summer, and I turn on the ceiling fan, and the radio started playing. The idiot electrician who was only supposed to have the ceiling fan hooked up to that switch, also hooked up that wall socket for some damn reason. Annoying.

That's sort of cute. But if Little Billy was riding his pedal tractor, which was hitched up to a wagon load of hay - now that would have been cute.

The Navy doesn't have boot camp anymore? Because they certainly used to. My father went to boot camp in 1940. My cousin went to boot camp - somewhere in Central Florida. Orlando? - in the '80s.

There is an online story. West Texas. They found some dinosaur tracks. They have brought down a paleontologist and her crew from The Field museum in Chicago. Mention is casually made of the coolers full of ice and water. And it says that the man that owns the land the tracks are on has his chest freezer full of bags of ice. That makes sense. It does. Except - I have two chest freezers and they're full of food. Why would he have an empty freezer that he could fill up with ice so that they could keep the scientific party hydrated? Who has an empty freezer?

We must blame the Marshal. He posted a joke about a little girl going to the pet shop wanting to buy a "wittle wabbit", and saying that her python did not care what color his breakfast was. And that had me thinking about the snake swallowing the rabbit, which led to the question.

I have a couple of questions about that meme. Bear with me. Boot camp? Air Force? Boot camp is Navy. Marines are navy also, so they go to boot camp. But I thought the Army went to basic training and since the Air Force used to be the army I assumed they also went to basic training. Boot camp? Then the comment. DI. In the Air Force? Again, the Navy has drill instructors. If you can believe Forrest Gump (the scene where he's tearing his rifle down then putting it back together in basic. "You taught me drill sergeant."), the Army has drill sergeants. I don't know what the Air Force has but drill instructor doesn't sound right.

I would always run new brass through the sizer. Not so much to "shrink it down", but to make sure the mouth was square and the case was round. You have a sack full of dentable objects. It just makes sense to verify that they're not damaged in transit.

A mammal carnivore will tear the hide off of his prey, and then eat the meat off the bones. An owl will eat all of his prey and then regurgitate the bones and the skin. A snake will swallow his whole - meat, fur and bones. So question one is do other raptors do that, or is that simply owls? Do hawks and eagles, for example, tear their prey apart and just eat the meat and leave the bones and the skin behind? Snakes. Do they digest all of that - the bones and the fur? Or do they regurgitate the stuff that they don't digest, or do they poop it all out?

I don't think about growing older or not growing older. Just a part of life. But I find it a tad annoying when people who should remember my birthday don't. I got a phone call one year, a few years back. My granddaughters sang Happy Birthday to me. After I thank them and they got off the phone and went back to doing whatever teenagers do, my daughter got on the phone and she tells me that she had told them they absolutely had to remember this year because it was an important one. I asked what was important about it. She says, "You're sixty!" And I said, "I'm 61". Oops.

Only the first season, and she had brown hair.

My understanding is that some woman shooter was carrying spare ammo in her cleavage. And the other shooters raised hell, so they made it illegal to carry in the cleavage, and they figured as long as they was making that illegal. Because sure is God made a little green horse apples, somebody would hold it in their mouth, or stick a spare in their nostril. Remember the guy that showed up to shoot classic cowboy. The rules said spurs. He was wearing spurs. On his elbows. His argument was it didn't say where they had to be worn, just that they had to be worn. And that's why the rules now say "worn the way they're supposed to be". Another guy, wearing a watch with a long chain. He had a watch with a long chain. And he would take it out of his side pants pocket to show it to you if you wanted to see it.