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Is that the famous Washington DC cherry trees? I ask because of the guy with the camera appears to be Japanese, and it seems like every Japanese tourist that comes to America takes pictures of the cherry trees in DC.

Can I blame otto for this also?

Was there supposed to be video? Cause I got a minute 17 of audio - wind blowing and wind chimes being beat all to hell. But no picture.

I remember on Sea Hunt, Lloyd Bridges would sit on the gunnel, hold his mask tight to his face and just fall back wasBACKWARDS out of the boat. That would have been fun if there had been a great white 5 feet below the surface. At least that girl bent over and looked first.

I almost put this in Australia. But it seemed like it fit here better. It's her own fault. She has sharks on her flippers. They must have been calling their big brother.

This is at a comic book convention. The middle frame. The guy on the left, just about to walk out of frame. He is dressed as an X-Wing fighter pilot. The baby in the backpack is wearing an R2-D2 cap. Because X-Wing fighters have an R2 unit in the back. I just thought that was neat.

My water bill is supposed to arrive the first Monday of the month. I know this because I called them once before asking why I hadn't got a bill yet. So I just called and I asked if maybe the water was free this month because I hadn't received a bill yet. And the lady said something - Mumble Mumble mumble and they just went out today - and then she told me how much it would be. And I asked her what the due date was. The 18th. So they are sending the bill out from the water department on the 15th, so I might receive it on the 18th, and it's due on the 18th. I hope no water gets turned off because of this.

That snake picture reminds me of a story. Whenever I meet a puppy for the first time, I pick it up and hold it right up to my face, nose to nose, and we breathe on each other for a while. So I'm at a friend's house one day, and a friend of his came over bringing his pet ferret, Bear. I had never had anything to do with a ferret before. And Keith hands me Bear, and I treated him just like I would a puppy. Brought him up to my face and we breathed on each other for a little bit. And then I set him down. Keith was impressed. "I didn't know he would do that", so he picked him up and brought him up to his face nose to nose. And Bear latched on to him. It shocked him so much he dropped the ferret, and it just was hanging there off his nose.

Not before just now.

Long damn way between the redneck Riviera and the mouth of the Rat.

I see nothing genius about it. He apparently watched the Dukes of Hazzard. A later episode. Enus had quit and gone to Los Angeles to have his own spin-off series. So Roscoe's new deputy was boss's nephew, or some such relation. As part of their speed trap, this deputy had a hair dryer they had painted olive drab, and he would point that at out of state cars. Then pull them over and write them a speeding ticket. Didn't matter that they said they weren't speeding. He had his radar gun.

I had to thread the other day about parents of kids that make a lot of money, possibly spending the kids' money. And many people responded saying they were laws against that. Can the kids handle their own money? There was a show years ago called Family Ties. Two Democrat liberal tree huggers had three kids, and the boy was a staunch Conservative Republican. Alex P Keaton, 15 years old, played by 23 year old Michael J Fox. Mr Fox, at that age, was an adult and therefore should be expected to be able to take care of himself and his salary, so of course he can spend it however he wanted. His little sister in the show was 12 or 13, so as a child she would be too stupid to be trusted with her own money. Right? I'm reading Marcia Brady's memoir. When she was 16, her brother went to Europe where he met a German girl and fell in love. When he came home the German girl came with him, and she and Maureen became friends. When the German girl went back home to Germany she invited Maureen to come spend the summer break with her. So 16 year old Maureen flies to Europe. Also 16-year-old Maureen, now with a driver's license, wants a car. Her father's insistence upon "safety for my little girl" to the salesman has her driving away with a large diesel Mercedes sedan. And also 16-year-old Maureen's brother wished to start a nightclub. He had seven grand, and borrowed three more from the credit union, and his parents loaned him 10, and Maureen loaned him five. So there in that one year she flew to Europe, which probably cost a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars, and bought a Mercedes which probably cost six or seven thousand (this was 1972), and gave her brother $5,000 for his nightclub. The Brady kids were making a big $1,100 an episode, so that was maybe 30 grand a year. It appears she spent a lot of that $30,000 that year. And that just got me wondering if there was laws saying that kids earning lots of money like that have to have it put away. You can't let him spend it because he'll blow it. Ronny Howard got an allowance of 50 cents a week while he was playing Opie. While he was playing Opie he made over $100,000 a year. And it got put in the bank. But that seemed to be his father's idea, not a requirement.

And pineapple?