Digging and Burying

Constant Reader Luc wrote in to chastise me that I haven't been pulling my weight here at Listen2UncleJay.

Sorry to keep you waiting, Luc. I'll try to keep up with more regular posting.

Been kinda busy here with all the Global Warming outside covering up the entire town.

Getting to work is a chore itself, let alone working on keeping access to the street open.

I have to do it all myself since I have jettisoned The Less-significant Other.

Seems he was helping a neighbor with some maintenance chores around her house and neglecting ours...

Good riddance to bad rubbish, as Momma always said.

She also said that he was a miserable bastard and didn't deserve me, but I couldn't read between the lines.

Oh well...

Stay warm everyone!

We Might Have to Rethink the Name

I Guess It Depends On Your Definition of Normal

A surgeon went to check on his blond patient after an operation.

She was awake, so he examined her.

“You’ll be fine,” he said.

She asked,

“How long will it be before I am able to have a normal sex life again doctor?”

The surgeon seemed to pause, which alarmed the girl.

“What’s the matter Doctor? I will be all right, won’t I?”

He replied,

“Yes, you’ll be fine..

It’s just that no one has ever asked me that after having their tonsils out.”

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree...

Luke 2:1 - 'Tis the season...

Breasfast Meat Nativity Scene

Medic!

(Dear TBG & Constant Readers,
Sorry my posting has been infrequent.
Got me some issues to deal with at the
place that Pays The Bills, so that makes
them Priority One.
Stay tuned- more to come when time permits.)

Perspective

Ewww.

Doorknob Hanger

Boy, that IS disturbing.

Blonde Joke

Small Changes

Hell Hath No Fury...

...like a woman scorned.

As these pictures illustrate, men just don't get it.

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Of course, sometimes guys can be just as evil...

Opinions. Not Worth A Tinkers Dam

When TBG started to go off regarding the TSA's new pat-downs and sooper-dooper xray machine, I thought to myself "That dude needs to switch to decaf."

After all, how bad can it be?

Look! CBS says most of us don't mind.
CBS Poll: 4 in 5 Support Full-Body Airport Scanners

Americans overwhelmingly approve of the use of full-body digital x-ray machines - a new technology in use at some airports in the U.S.

Problem is, I think those 4 out of 5 are like me, and only travel once every 5 years or so, and are NOT travelers like TBG (thank God) and travel all the frigging time.

I guess you might have a different view, if like TBG, you had to submit to both the scanner and a pat-down. (We exchanged a series of rather colorful emails about this... I'm sure a 4th Amendment post is in-process. Don't miss it.)

Two things regarding the CBS poll...
They are playing fast and loose with their stats and sources. I hate it when pollsters don't discuss their polling criteria and methodologies...

The fine print? Here:

This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,137 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone November 7-10, 2010. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

Do they travel? How often? Have they experienced the TSA enhanced pat-down?
If not, then STFU. You don't have a valid frame of reference to give an opinion.

So, since I have no frame of reference, or as TBG phrased it "you don't have a dog in this fight..." I'll just keep my lip buttoned and watch the game from the sidelines.

One other thing that might cast a suspicious pall over the CBS article is the following quote:

Most [Americans], meanwhile, do not approve of racial or ethnic profiling - a practice not in place.

I'm not sure they asked the question in an appropriate context.
How do you think the questions was asked?:

"Do you approve of racial profiling?"
-or-
"Should individuals meeting specific criteria for know terrorist activities be subjected to more scrutiny than the average traveler?"

Yeah. Get back to me on that...

Meanwhile, for your amusement, a cartoon that MIGHT have some validity, if you look at the situation pragmatically:


Proxi, a non-traveler.

Childhood Fears - Pt. 10

We didn't have the dirt floor, but we DID have the open stair risers...

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960

Childhood Fears - Pt. 9

It's that frickin' clown again.

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960

Childhood Fears - Pt. 8

A classic from everyone's Book O' Scary Shit - The Thing Under The Bed.

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960

Childhood Fears - Pt. 7

Never trust anyone wearing a mask.
You never know what's under it.

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960

Childhood Fears - Pt. 6

On camp-outs in the backyard when I was a kid dogs howling in the distance always freaked me out. Probably from watching too many Werewolf movies on Creature Feature.
(Isn't the human hand instead of a paw a great touch?)

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960

Childhood Fears - Pt. 5

Wasn't there a haunted house in every neighborhood?

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960.

Childhood Fears - Pt. 4

Thank Gawd we didn't have an unfinished basement. One of my best friends up the road from us did and it stank. This might have been the reason.

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960.

Childhood Fears - Pt. 3

Funny how all the creaks and groans of an old house made watching "Creature Feature" on Channel 36 a nightmare.
But we kept doing it anyway.

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960.

Childhood Fears - Pt. 2

The clown on the right side of the pic would have done me in. I hate clowns.

Proxi - Living in fear since 1960.