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AdakWillie

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Owned by a Tonkinese cat. Old guy who wrote technical manuals for a long-gone minicomputer company. There's a lot of water out there....and that's only the top of it. P.Butterfield. The Cure. Mahler.

created December 19, 2023

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You're right! My bad.

1/9/2025, 11:28:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was there an ambulance at the Butler, PA, site? Was it used?

1/9/2025, 5:04:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn't he go silent just prior to Butler, PA, stunt?

1/9/2025, 1:23:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, but they'll place restrictions on who's qualified to get one.

30/8/2025, 11:39:28 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But what about my desire to convert interstate medians for wind turbines & solar farms? Can't we get along?

27/8/2025, 12:03:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've got the Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie-Woogie flu on my list of what that dead bear-eatin', sewer water-bathin' guy will unleash on us next.

26/8/2025, 11:09:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lisckspittles United.

26/8/2025, 7:53:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same at local CVS in Massachusetts.

26/8/2025, 7:50:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TR, who fought in the Spanish-American war? Whose son Quentin was KIA in WWI? Whose son TR Jr., who served in WWI and died in France at 56 after taking part in the D-Day invasion? Shame.

26/8/2025, 7:17:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should be "45 + 47" but nice try.

25/8/2025, 10:12:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Service absolutely vaporized Reagan.

25/8/2025, 8:41:50 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd been hoping it was the result of improved auto aerodynamics...

24/8/2025, 9:39:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am not an Intel shareholder. Are shareholders pleased with this state of affairs or no?

24/8/2025, 4:49:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gil Scott-Heron had all this figured out in 1981. From his album "Reflections."

Photo of Gil Scott-Heron from his album
22/8/2025, 8:08:18 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Four Seasons Totoal Landscaping probably begs to differ.

22/8/2025, 3:01:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At this very moment....as usual.

22/8/2025, 1:09:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same with this little girl.

Annie the Tonkinese Kat.
21/8/2025, 11:23:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Home is Where the Hatred Is.

21/8/2025, 11:19:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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White Fiat, Puglia.
21/8/2025, 8:31:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get the felons off the streets!

21/8/2025, 7:05:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those DOGE folks should look into this waste of time, money, and "human" resources.

21/8/2025, 5:12:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cue the nagging requests for a Congressional Medal of Honor.....

21/8/2025, 4:54:32 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Show your work, JD. Give us the actual statistics.

20/8/2025, 7:50:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My life in a nutshell.

20/8/2025, 7:39:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait til DOGE hears this.

20/8/2025, 1:54:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why does he think other nations pay the tariffs he declares? He doesn't understand anything.

19/8/2025, 2:36:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't remember much suit-wearing in the White House by Musk.

18/8/2025, 3:52:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fleetwood Cheese.

17/8/2025, 6:13:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gums of Navarone.

17/8/2025, 4:03:52 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amateur hour.

16/8/2025, 5:05:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sad Sack.

16/8/2025, 2:47:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey--wait! I was born on one of those islands!!

15/8/2025, 11:51:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More like a "Summat with Putin."

15/8/2025, 11:31:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ernest Hemingway is moderately entertained.

15/8/2025, 11:28:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. Next: Tumblebug!

15/8/2025, 11:11:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Has (Ras)Putin ever sat like that before?

15/8/2025, 11:01:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks. Sadly, he took his own life five years ago at age 95. He never got over his experiences in the Pacific.

15/8/2025, 10:58:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I was ever going to get a tattoo.....

15/8/2025, 5:57:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My Marine uncle Dave left his tiny town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, to fight in the Pacific. He was seriously wounded on Iwo Jima. These hucksters can go to hell.

15/8/2025, 2:21:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I think I'm done with ice (brrr)." Great choice--so are we all.

14/8/2025, 11:18:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Viva Dagwood Brigade!

Dagwood Bumstead prepares for battle.
14/8/2025, 4:46:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Hope Diamond is about to go "into storage" isn't it?

13/8/2025, 10:21:22 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Slightly diminish a (fictional) band: Benny and the Jerks.

13/8/2025, 10:07:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AdakWillie (@rapidrascal.bsky.social) reply parent

DoD's budget is obviously incredibly inflated if they can make these things just happen.

12/8/2025, 3:55:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AdakWillie (@rapidrascal.bsky.social) reply parent

So.....Where in the U.S. budget are the funds to support these growing actions? Have we been giving the military much more funding than they've needed all these years?

12/8/2025, 2:27:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He says this after fomenting January 6th spit fest.

11/8/2025, 8:42:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who do you think you're talking to--Patrick Brontë?

11/8/2025, 8:40:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He said the quiet part out loud.

11/8/2025, 8:39:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then it'll be a pincer movement on Canada.

11/8/2025, 4:30:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where are the DC thought police headquartered?

11/8/2025, 4:25:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the "I Have a Back-Up Camera--Look at This!" syndrome. My across-the-street neighbor started doing this last year: She pulls into my driveway then backs into her garage. Needs a quick getaway from our age 55+ neighborhood, I guess.

11/8/2025, 2:51:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Quite missing the word "alleged" here.

11/8/2025, 2:43:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time -- Pozo Seco Singers.

11/8/2025, 2:29:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for your attention to this matter.

10/8/2025, 6:30:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is he including an invisible person wearing the dumb cap in this conversation?

9/8/2025, 6:27:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The horror! The horror!"

9/8/2025, 6:20:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putting will get Alaska by telling Trump Russian presence there will pave Trump's way to getting Canada.

9/8/2025, 2:23:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's going to sell AK, isn't he?

9/8/2025, 12:36:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guns of Navarone. (Not a real island, but.....)

8/8/2025, 4:44:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My father had a lively "discussion" with a former B-17 pilot abt which was better--B-17 or B-24. Dad flew 'em both and was B-24 all the way.

8/8/2025, 3:56:39 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed. My father was a B-24 pilot with the 15th Army Air Force (and a 30-year career in that branch); one uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge & another seriously wounded on Iwo Jima. Not for this.

8/8/2025, 3:29:33 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reading the attached article it appears the word "allegedly" was underrepresented.

8/8/2025, 3:25:10 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Consummatum est, populi!

Cartoon character Cicero the Pig announcing
8/8/2025, 3:11:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sic!

8/8/2025, 3:03:14 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That dog won't hunt.

6/8/2025, 11:09:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why is your voice coming from the foot locker on that guy's back??

6/8/2025, 8:32:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Checking sightlines for the gallows to be installed for the public executions of his critics.

6/8/2025, 11:14:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cancel U.S. World Cup games. Cancel Summer Olympics.

5/8/2025, 11:06:02 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I must be missing something--why can't writs of habeas corpus be filed?

5/8/2025, 10:58:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd advise this driver he'd be safer if he sat there with both hands on the wheel still asked for his documents instead of moving atound reaching into his pocket or the glove compartment.

5/8/2025, 7:57:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Useful hood for disappearing someone.

4/8/2025, 1:59:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really enjoyed the 12.5% fixed rate home mortgage we were able to get. Let the good times roll.

4/8/2025, 1:56:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Throw in reduction of available health-related resources and disease prevention-related technology & resources while you're at it.

2/8/2025, 6:55:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TFG's impeachments were not matters of interpretation, they were matters of fact. Shame on the Smithsonian.

2/8/2025, 12:32:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Darkness, darkness, Long and lonesome, Ease the day that brings me pain.

1/8/2025, 12:36:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does Burgum crank his car to get it started?

31/7/2025, 10:42:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think you mean Sweeney Todt.

31/7/2025, 7:56:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they left out an "F."

28/7/2025, 10:45:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Backpfeifengesicht!

28/7/2025, 12:54:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't remember which boxer it was that, when asked by a post-fight announcer if his opponent had knocked him out, responded, "Not to the best of my knowledge." Words to live by.

27/7/2025, 2:03:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ain't a contract unless there's an acceptance thereof.

25/7/2025, 2:07:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ladies and gentlemen--Killer Kowalski. Vegetarisn who attended Canada's Royal Military College and later University of Detroit. Studied electrical engineering. Ripping the ear off an opponent was unfortunate.

25/7/2025, 9:52:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Free Chuck E.!

24/7/2025, 11:11:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The richest 0.1% won't even notice that $83K.

24/7/2025, 10:59:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oligarchs vs serfs. No in-between. Russia 2.0.

24/7/2025, 10:56:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn't there a single GOP Congressperson who even for a second wonders, "My constituents voted for me.....to do this? Halt the work of the people to protect TFG?"

22/7/2025, 3:05:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Right here in River City!"

20/7/2025, 6:59:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Marvin Gaye asked the same question 54 years ago. And I still haven't found what he was looking for.

20/7/2025, 6:06:42 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for your attention to this matter.

20/7/2025, 3:54:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Neither.

18/7/2025, 6:58:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His (tiny) hand doesn't seem to hurt him much when he does his patented "I'll get the upper hand" handshake & yank move.

18/7/2025, 6:47:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Adventure of a Lifetime.

17/7/2025, 2:58:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our Scoutmaster had taught survival skills at the Air Force Academy--Troop 855 was hard-core! I'm afraid I let the side down.

17/7/2025, 12:25:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So no Order of the Arrow for you!

17/7/2025, 12:00:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tacky in a 1955 Buick sort of way. My parents were born in 1920 and the Kirby was purchased in '60 or '61. It was still going strong in the 1st decade of the 21st century.

16/7/2025, 6:56:12 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely--with ruby red plastic trim.

16/7/2025, 6:44:37 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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A Kirby Butler resided in our house. My son-in-law was fascinated by it. Shiny!

16/7/2025, 6:37:24 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be the Vampire Killer.

16/7/2025, 3:45:54 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So a NJ animal shelter has an alarm system, but a TX summer camp for children in a flood-prone area doesn't.

16/7/2025, 3:03:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At 5 I could already read so at kindergarten (Manchester, TN) I was placed alone in a small, separate room with a blazing hot pot-bellied stove while everyone colored or played with clay. It made me who I am today. Not blazing hot--pot bellied.

16/7/2025, 2:57:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view