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                                                    Alice in Dairyland
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 8:40:08 AM
                                                 
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 In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: What are those evergreen needles doing on the table? Are they part of a complete breakfast?  Breakfast at Euell Gibbons' house.  The evergreen needles are the main course.
 
  
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                                                    JCM
                                                    
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                                                    Alice in Dairyland
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 10:27:44 AM
                                                 
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                                             Reply to JCM in 3:  Now that would be funny.
 
  
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                                                    buzzsawmonkey
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 11:14:39 AM
                                                 
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                                            I understand that, in the interests of ethnic "inclusiveness," Procter & Gamble are bringing out a household cleaning product whose spokesperson will be a shaven-headed Asian man called Mr. Korean.
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                                                    10/10/2021 11:29:10 AM
                                                 
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 In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: What are those evergreen needles doing on the table? Are they part of a complete breakfast? 
 I’m pining for such a repast.
 
  Anyway. Took Little OR to a pancake place, then an art museum.  In the latter, at the obligatory gift shop visit before leaving, he surveyed a table full of “Black Artists Matter” material, and asked me, “why is everything about black people now?”. 
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                                                    buzzsawmonkey
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 12:14:35 PM
                                                 
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                                            James Bond has been around so long, I would love to see him going to "Q" for a specially-gadgetized walker.
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                                                    buzzsawmonkey
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 12:15:08 PM
                                                 
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 In #6 Occasional Reader said: Took Little OR to a pancake place, then an art museum.  In the latter, at the obligatory gift shop visit before leaving, he surveyed a table full of “Black Artists Matter” material, and asked me, “why is everything about black people now?”. Perceptive young man...
 
  
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                                                    Occasional Reader
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 12:39:53 PM
                                                 
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                                             Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8:  
 
 His usual riposte when seeing BLM signs is to say “*everybody’s* life matters.” That’s my boy. 
  
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                                                    Alice in Dairyland
                                                    
                                                    10/10/2021 2:24:42 PM
                                                 
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 In #6 Occasional Reader said: I’m pining for such a repast. Now don't get sappy on me.
 
  
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