Year: 2024

Memory Lane: ‘That Happy Feeling’

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Ach! I’m tired, I’m stiff and sore all over, it’s raining again (!), and this computer is giving me fits, it doesn’t want to work today.

So what am I doing, posting a tune called That Happy Feeling?

Well, it’s a happy memory, then. Band leader Bert Kaempfert had a lot of hits when I was in my early teens, back in the early 1960s, before our culture imploded. I don’t think music sounds like this anymore.

If you’re young, here’s a little bit of what you missed. I wish I could have missed rap music.

‘The Inquiring Quokka’ (2020)

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Meet the Quokka

I don’t know how, but somehow that COVID business blasted this blog’s readership and it’s still nowhere near recovering. I put Byron the Quokka on the job in 2020. I guess I’ll have to do it again.

The Inquiring Quokka

He calls this “market research.” Well, that’s what it is, for all I know. I guess it sounds better than “spinning our wheels.”

(I do wish it would stop raining here…)

‘This Is My Father’s World’

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We know God through the work of His hands, the beauties of nature–all of His creation, all under His care.

A Sunday school favorite: This Is My Father’s World, sung by Fernando Ortega. Background sets by God the Father.

Cats Doing Cat Stuff

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We love to watch our cats–I mean, at least, as long as we don’t have to clean up afterward. Have you noticed how creative they can be? I remember the time our cat Henry snuck out and got caught in heavy rain. A little too creative, that time.

Byron’s TV Listings, May 11

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From the Pages of TV Guide

G’day, boys ‘n’ girls! Byron the Quokka here, with another weekend of TV that’ll restore your sanity and make you lucky at cards. At least that’s what they tell me.

6:30 P.M.   Ch. 60   BUZZWORD!–Incredibly annoying game show

Is it “iconic”? Were you “assigned the male gender at birth”? Were you ever a “pregnant person”? Join host Jimmy Fraud as celebrity guests try to outdo each other at spouting buzzwords. There can only be one winner! The others get tossed into the shark tank–always the favorite part of the show.

6:32 P.M.  Ch. 14   MOVIE–Horror, suspense, terror, etc.

In Night of the Dachshund (Serbo-Colchian, 1732: 14 minutes), retired mouthwash taster Roy LeBoy (Eddie Albert), bitten by he knew not what, turns into a ravening, savage dachshund whenever there’s a full moon. Mrs. Tweedle: Adrienne Barbeau. Tongue-tied man with pince-nez glasses: Arnold Stang.

7 P.M.   Ch. 08   ALEXANDER THE NOT-SO-GREAT–Sitcom

His dream is to conquer Asia–if he can find it on a map. This Alexander, played by this guy we found in Shipping & Receiving, doesn’t like being King of Kaput; he wants to be King of Somewhere Else. General Fung: Jayne Payne. Queen Poprock: Alice Ghastly. Assorted soldiers et al: The June Taylor Dancers.

Ch. 34   NEWS FOR NINNIES–News you won’t see anywhere else

Reporters Angus Kabong and Sarah Bosh investigate unused picnic tables. Sports: Is pro wrestling really fixed? Really? Science news: Why does the ball in a Fly-Back always come back to the paddle? Anchors: Jeremy Skrinch, Sue Persimmins.

Well, folks, if those shows don’t do it for you, I don’t know what will.

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Now all I have to do is get in somehow. Where did they put the door?

Now I Have a Cane

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“What goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?”

Such was the riddle of the sphinx; and when Oedipus answered “man,” the sphinx cast herself off a cliff.

Well, I have a cane now. Bat Masterson, that’s me (or could be, if I had a derby). It shouldn’t be too hard to learn to use it properly. When I had to borrow my Grandpa’s cane, forty-some years ago, I didn’t do it right and it threw my back out. Very painful, and for a long time!

I have now experienced by riddle of the sphinx in person. I’d just as soon have missed it. But these things sneak up on you.

By Request, ‘Sweet Hour of Prayer’

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Requested by Erlene, Sweet Hour of Prayer–and how it brings back to me my mother and my grandma. They’d sing this hymn while doing their chores.

And I do enjoy the scenery rounded up by S.E. Samonte.

How Biden Would ‘Support Women’s Sports’

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Why is he grinning? What new mischief is he contemplating?

If hypocrisy were intelligence, SloJo Biden would be a genius.

First he rewrites Title IX to get more trannies–that is, mentally ill men–into women’s sports. And then he turns to the camera and pleads with America to “support women’s sports.” Oh, yeah–“by showing up in person or watching on TV” (https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/05/10/joe-biden-pleads-americans-watch-womens-sports-amid-push-include-trans-athletes/).

Have your cake and eat it, too!

Hey, Joe! Waddaya say to women’s ice hockey, with as many trannies on the ice as you can find? How long would would it take for every woman in the league to be landed in the hospital or battered into early retirement?

That’s what you and your Democrat playmates call “women’s sports.”

Disgusting, isn’t it? Do they really, truly, actually expect normal people to accept these surgically-mutilated wackos as women?

I do not understand how these people wind up enjoying power over us.

‘Amazing! Good News!’ (2016)

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Wow, this was eight years ago. With the COVID circus in between. If wonder if the atheists ever came back for a rematch.

Amazing! Good News!

As we drift into graduation season–for those schools not shut down for assorted “protests”–we should remember the Class of ’16 at East Liverpool High School, Ohio. Their School Officials (always a bunch of weasels!) caved to the atheists’ threat of a lawsuit, if the graduates were allowed to sing the Lord’s Prayer. But the graduating seniors did not cave. They sang it anyway, and no lawsuit got filed.

If being led by teenagers is what it takes to free our country from wicked fools and tyrants–follow the teens!

‘Behold the Mountain of the Lord’

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I love this hymn, and it’s been too long since I last posted it: traditional Scottish hymn, sung by Godfrey Birtill–Behold the Mountain of the Lord. It stirs my soul. I hope it stirs yours.