Alpo
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Is that why they're so sweet?
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That's a bummer.
That looks like a choate, and that would be a real good deal for a choate - Brownells wants a hundred and a quarter.
But I'm just not willing to take a chance on an unknown. Sorry.
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The current Arc in the comic strip for better or for worse has April, who is about 4 years old, going down to the river to sail a toy boat, and falling in.
The family dog goes in after her, and keeps her afloat until Daddy gets down there and rescues her. They also pull the dog out. And the dog collapses but they figure that's just cuz he's tired. They're making a big thing out of April - is she all right? And the teenager points out that the dog is not breathing.
So the old family dog died saving the little girl.
The other two kids are at least 10 years older than April, so they've had Farley around all their life.
In reality - I know this is a comic strip and it's all fiction and all made up - in reality do you suppose the other kids would blame April for the death of Farley? If she hadn't been playing by the river he wouldn't have had to go in to save her.
There's a Dick Francis novel. Lawn party, and everybody parked their cars up on the hill overlooking the house and the grounds. One of the cars was a horse van. British term, but I visualize something about the size of a Snap-On truck. And they didn't lock their car.
"Who locks their car at a friend's house?"
And this little kid, finding the open door, got in and fiddled around and knocked it out of gear and took the brake off. And shortly after the kid left, it rolled down the hill. Right into the party. Killed 8 or 10 people.
The protagonist of the story was thinking that he hoped, for the kid's sake, that nobody ever told him that he killed all those people. But knowing people like he did, he expected someone would.
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This reminded me of a true story. Guy I used to work with went out to dinner with our secretary. He ordered boiled shrimp. When they arrived she was telling him that she had tried them once before, on someone's recommendation, but did not like them. They were too crunchy.
And then as he begins peeling the shrimp she says, "What are you doing?"
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My insurance company has a program were they attach some kind of doohickey to your car, and that allows them to keep track of how far you drive and where you drive. The theory being that if you don't drive very far or if you don't drive it to dangerous areas, there's less risk of your car being damaged or stolen, so they can make your premium less.
But I don't want my insurance company, or the government, or my next door neighbor, or anybody else knowing how far I drive and where I go. So I have opted not to sign up for that program, and I have to pay more.
Kind of sucks.
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I'm a cop, I want to get a search warrant. Do I have to go to a specific judge? Or can any guy that has the right to sit behind the bench with the robe on give me one?
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It's Almost Friday Humor Thread
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