‘Memory Lane’ Contest, Day 2

Okay! We’re off to a good start.

Each day, I’ll post a place for you to post your entries. That way they’ll all be in the same place.

Do You Remember? - Milk vending machine spotted in London ...

Let me get us started today–with milk machines. Remember them? The ones in our town had wooden platforms which sometimes fell to pieces. Golden opportunity! If you dug into the dirt where the platform used to be, you could find fabulous numbers of quarters that people dropped and that fell through the cracks in the platform. What a bonanza!

But that’s enough from me. Any readers’ memories today? Here’s the place to share them.

‘Waking the Giant’ (2021)

846 Slay Dragon Images, Stock Photos, 3D objects, & Vectors ...

There seems to be abundant evidence that most of the American people don’t like Woke: in fact, they hate it. (Don’t believe me? Check out CNN’s ratings.)

But I think we’re running out of time to slay this dragon.

https://leeduigon.com/2021/06/

Yes, there’s a lot of discontent out there. Everything they touch, Democrats ruin. This year’s national elections are very likely our last chance to rescue America.

Look at all the B.S. that was cheesing us off in 2021! We weren’t able to bring it home in 2022–so baby, we’d better do it now. Eventually you run out of chances and you’ve got the Soviet Union for the next 70 years.

And you know they’re going to cheat to win, they’re going to cheat like crazy–and they’re already doing it–so be prepared to vote accordingly. Don’t stay home this time!

Anyone who thinks we can take four more years of Biden and his playmates is off-the-charts crazy.

 

‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’

I can’t explain why I decided to post this Christmas hymn today, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. All I can say is, my heart cried out for it this morning.

And now I know where to put the comma in the title.

Sung by the Magdalen College Choir.

Do You Feed the Ground Hogs?

True story: There was a ground hog who lived under the left field fence of our softball field. I hit a ball that rolled to the fence–a sure double–and then disappeared before the left fielder could retrieve it. The ball had rolled into the ground hog’s burrow and couldn’t be reached–presuming anyone cared to thrust his hand down the burrow. There was no ground rule covering the situation, so I had an easy home run.

Just try doing that trick on purpose!

‘Scientific American’ Disses Homeschooling

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“You are getting sleepy, very sleepy… You will obey my commands…”

Remember the equation: Science + Politics = Politics.

Scientific American last month came down hard on homeschooling, calling for “background checks” (?) of homeschooling parents and a “federal mandate” to regulate homeschooling (https://mustreadalaska.com/scientific-american-calls-for-federal-regulation-of-homeschool-families/#:~:text=The%20magazine%20wants%20government%20oversight,federal%20government%20into%20families’%20lives.).

Yeah! Who needs a legislature, when a few nimrods in D.C. can hand down Mandates that everyone has to obey or else?

It’s all necessary, said the magazine writers, “just in case” there might be child abuse committed by parents instead of public school teachers and administrators.

Besides! Don’t you want your kids to learn about Changing Their Gender? Using new pronouns? Blaming white people for everything that goes wrong?

It has long since been proved that homeschooled children routinely outscore and out-perform public school students on all sorts of standardized tests. (Yeahbut, yeahbut! What if those evil homeschooling parents fail to teach Evolution? ‘Cause you need to believe in Evolution if you want to be a CPA or an aviation mechanic–or anything else!)

Heck, it’s been months since we had a brand-new Mandate! People are gonna get sloppy, ya know? Thinking they’re free citizens of a republic, or some silly thing like that.

I don’t know what kind of “science” lands your kids in Gendergarten. And I’d rather not find out.

Yum, Yum! Bill Gates Pushes Maggot Milk

Next time you want a glass of milk, zillionaire Bill Gates thinks you ought to swill a “dairy alternative” which he calls “Entomilk,” made from the larvae of black soldier flies.

Bill Gates Launches ‘Maggot Milk’ to Feed General Public

Just what we needed–a new Lord of the Flies.

But we gotta do this, see, because ordinary dairy products, like cows’ milk, are gonna Wreck The Planet: so we have to eat and drink bugs to Save The Planet.

File:Black soldier flies mating.jpg - Wikipedia

Mmm, mmm! Makes your mouth water, doesn’it it?

The only reason I can think of for trying to get the plebs to eat and drink fly larvae is that they despise us and want to humiliate us. You are not going to see John Kerry guzzling down a nice tall glass of maggot milk.

One more stolen election, and it’s “Bottoms up!” for us.

‘An All-New Perversion! Become Disabled on Purpose’ (2015)

This was a big Far Left Crazy fad, ten years ago. Have your leg cut off, or your eyes blinded–because that’s what you “feel.” Or something. It’s still too crazy for me to explain.

An All-New Perversion! Become Disabled on Purpose

I think the Transgender craze sucked all the oxygen out of the room and left the Voluntarily Disabled crowd out in the cold. Either way, it boils down to having yourself mutilated because (fill in the blank: I can’t).

Don’t you wish you could get off this ride?

‘Memory Lane’ Contest Rules, Etc.

Mr. Machine from Ideal (1960) | Toy Tales

How many of us had this toy–Mr. Machine?

Okay, our first Memory Lane contest is under way; and first I’m going to do something that should make it easier to follow.

Each day, I’ll post a brief remindet about the contest: and to that post, readers can attach as many comments and replies as they please.

Anyone can enter. You can enter as often as you like.

Somewhere along the way, someone’s going to come up with a memory that knocks me for a loop–and that’ll be the winner of the contest. The prize is an autographed book, your choice.

We’ve already got some entries from yesterday, and I’m looking forward to seeing more–lots more.

Because memories are a good thing to share.

By Request, ‘Just a Closer Walk With Thee’

(Sorry I’m late, but we did our grocery shopping early, to beat the heat. It’s been brutal here, the past few days.)

Requested by Erlene, sung by Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline–Just a Closer Walk With Thee.

Playful Bunnies

I love watching wild rabbits play tag. If some kindly human were to make the equipment available, would wild bunnies use it? The domestic rabbits in this video probably would. Domestic animals get to be very creative.