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Never heard that one before. That was good.

While I found that quite funny, I always have this desire for an entertainer to do something, then say thank you, and the audience sit there and nobody applauds. He did that early in the act and everybody applauded which they were supposed to do. But I would like to see they don't. Because I'm strange.

The first time I went to Puerto Rico, my son-in-law's mother was going to take me to the casino. I told her I did not gamble and I did not drink so I didn't see the attraction. It confused her. I guess she could understand people that did not gamble, but an adult that did not drink? I'm too cheap. Worked too hard for my money to throw it away.

Judging by the piano in that video of the entertainer, while the piano might have 88 keys, the middle 50 are the ones that are used the most. Guessing withTHAT a piano that old might actually have Ivory keys, the middle ones are yellowed, while the ones that he shouldn't are still white. WHILE THE ONES THAT HE SHOULDN'T???? While the ones at the ends are still white. Just appears that the ones in the middle get fingered more often. Skin oils. Perspiration.

Must be hard to lip sync to yourself. At 18 seconds he apparently forgot that he was supposed to run his hands down the keys. Because his hands and the music did not agree.

One of the bad things about having been in a marching band, is whenever you see people marching to music and a movie you can't help but see if they're in step. And frequently they're not. Because the music was added after the filming was made. If you've never marched in step it probably doesn't bother you. You don't even notice it. When they're a full step off it's not too bad. But frequently they're a half step off. And that grates. Does anyone else, when watching a movie that is based on a play, and they have a WOW scene, wonder how they did it on stage? Or even if they did it on stage? When they come out of the high school, and they're in them cheap crappy looking uniforms. And then all of a sudden - POW! - they're in really amazing looking uniforms. That's a great effect. But I wonder what they did on stage? Because they couldn't do that.

Seriously. Where do they come up with these stupidities?

The people popping in and out was kind of strange. In Heinlein's JOB, Alec is at a revival. And the evangelist(?) revivalist(?) (whatever he would be called), is playing a trombone. And Alec is thinking that there is nothing better than a trombone for getting down and wrasslin' with sin. The arm pumping in and out is a visual - fighting with the devil.

When you buy chips, do they want to see ID? Mark down how much you bought with your name? Let's say I go to the cage. I buy $10,000 worth of chips. I go out on the floor. 2 hours later I come back to the cage and I cash in $15,000 worth of chips. Obviously I won five grand. And they are going to tell the IRS I won five grand because I have to pay tax on that. But how do they know I only won five grand when I cashed in 15K?

I was reading some life hack kind of article one time and it was explaining the chair. The chair was not designed to be used on level ground. It was designed for use in the Adirondack mountains. That's why the back legs are so much shorter than the front legs. Because they're designed to be used on steep ground. And you put them on the mountainside and you end up sitting in them level. Now, personally, I think this is about like the story of the cow with the short legs on the left side so it could graze on the mountain without falling off. Cute story. Total BS, the cute story.

Good thing you're in Tennessee and not in Kentucky.

It's in the international Isle of my local Publix. Both Vegemite and Marmite. So you can be an Aussie one day and a Pom the next.

But overthinking is what I do.

If you read this, what would you think it meant? And there is no right answer because I have no idea what he meant. In the story we have two girls and they are going to the swimming pool but they have no bathing suits so they had to go shopping. "The girls bought matching bikinis and cover-ups". Would you take that to mean that Donna bought a red bikini with a red cover-up while Lauren bought a blue bikini with a blue cover-up - the cover-ups and bikinis matched? Or Lauren and Donna both bought red bikinis with blue cover-ups - the girls bought matching outfits? I've read this story several times and every time I come to that point it just makes me hesitate for a moment trying to figure out what exactly the author meant.

Color vision. My job required me to have color vision. I had to have a vision test every year, which included the ishihara plates. So I'm there one time and the doctor is asking me to tell him the number I see and to trace the squiggly path with my finger, and then he opens up a page that's mostly purple and asks what number it is. I told him I didn't see no number. Told me to look harder. I told him I still didn't say no number. He says to follow him, and he goes out the door. So I get up out of the chair and I follow him and we go outside and then he shows it to me. Oh, that's a four. He nodded his head wisely. "Fluorescent lights. They'll screw your vision sometimes." I could not see a difference in any of them damn dots, until we went out in the natural light and then that number four was jumping out slap you in the face.