I just sent my wife a picture of me with a pen in my mouth and I mentioned I had a pen in my mouth, and I realized the significance of the space in the sentence "A pen is in my mouth."

I thought I'd warn you guys about this thing I just realized.

I played little league at Rehoboth Church when I was a kid. — Hanover

Rehoboth Beach started out as a Methodist beach camp back in the 1870s.

Rehoboth Beach started out as a Methodist beach camp back in the 1870s. — T Clark

By the time it got down here, it was Baptist.

Would you mind giving the warnings at the beginning of your posts in future?

Maybe: Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman, I am about to write a joke of a sexual nature. If you are easily offended, please avert your eyes.

You can just copy-paste that if you like. :up:

(It's always afternoon somewhere, so you don't even ever need to change that bit. :victory: )

Methodist beach camp back in the 1870s — T Clark

Maybe @BC was there.

The following piece of gossip may contain nuts. If you are a nut and do not wish to be contained, you are advised to stop reading here.

My daughter is visiting from Dow Nunder with her bloke who hails from Brazil, and they just offered me a can of Heineken (est. 1873) Made with pure malt, it says, but I suspect it has a yeast infection.

Move on, nuts!

I have never been at Rehoboth Beach. I was at Frontenac Methodist Camp on Lake Pepin (Mississippi River) in the 1970s. The camp was old and run down, sort of like the Methodist Church itself. The river was dirtier then than it is now, and swimming in it still makes one a bit squeamish, being the recipient of the big Metro Sewage Treatment plant outfall.

I spent 8 heavenly months living in the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1968-69. This was while the national park was being built, so almost nobody was there.

WARNING!!!

Bear helps itself to 60 cupcakes from Connecticut bakery, scares employees
today

AVON, Conn. (AP) — A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away. — AP News

Black bear breaks into vehicle, guzzles 69 cans of pop

A woman on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast awoke to a sticky situation last Thursday when she found a bear with a sweet tooth had broken into her car and crushed dozens of cans of soda she had left there overnight. Sharon Rosel said she was awakened by her dog around 3 a.m. PT Thursday and looked outside to see a black bear surrounded by shattered glass from her car window.

"He was drinking massive amounts of soda," said Rosel. — CBC News

Coincidence? Is there danger of an ursine diabetes outbreak?

have never been at Rehoboth Beach. I was at Frontenac Methodist Camp on Lake Pepin (Mississippi River) in the 1970s. The camp was old and run down, sort of like the Methodist Church itself. The river was dirtier then than it is now, and swimming in it still makes one a bit squeamish, being the recipient of the big Metro Sewage Treatment plant outfall. — BC

Not far from Rehoboth church was a small lake they stocked with catfish and carp and you'd pay a few dollars to fish there. They once loaded these massive channel catfish in there off a truck and the fish were still stunned and not swimming yet, so I tried to snag one with my hook. The lady came out there and yelled at me.

They sold snacks there, and that's when I got my first sweet taste of Mountsin Dew, which was before the meth heads made that drink cool.

I never caught a carp, but once one the size of a shark bit the line when my brother wasn't paying attention and swam off with his fishing pole. I think at night, when no one was around, that carp would fish for catfish with that pole. But I could be wrong.

My story about Rehoboth is better than yours I think. It has a certain down home feel to it, sort of like I'm Huck Finn or some other character from another book I was supposed to read but didn't.

Would you mind giving the warnings at the beginning of your posts in future? — Baden

Can I just have a standing warning that is never withdrawn so as to not require the formality of me reciting those words at the beginning of every post?

I'll similarly give you a standing objection, so you don't have to constantly object, and we'll just stipulate that that objection isn't waived by you.

This will make the transcript cleaner and all issues for appeal will be preserved.

My cat purrs before she gets her prednisone because I put it in cheese.

That's a follow to the story about how my cat was shedding so much that you might remember.

My story about Rehoboth is better than yours I think. — Hanover

Catfish vs. sewage? Toss-up.

There were very big catfish in the Chernobyl cooling ponds before the place blew up; they are still there. Some of them are up to 200 lbs in weight. Catfish live up to 80 years. Given the opportunity, a big catfish would eat you.

And, no doubt, they want to eat you -- tender, succulent, learn´d, randy, southern fried.

The catfish that snatches you off the dock might take your clothes and drive home in your car, and tell weird jokes in this esteemed echo-chamber. Or, maybe that has already happened?

Is there danger of an ursine diabetes outbreak? — T Clark

Didn't they cap the monthly cost of insulin at $30? That should fit into any bear's budget, considering they aren't paying for their sugar highs.

I just came from Mercadona. I saw in the breads section a new type, "Cruapan": Croissant + bread in the same slice. It smells really nice and let's give it a try with Andalucían olive oil.

Cool monkey pic. Thanks for posting!

monkey — Hanover

:angry:

My apologies. Like you, he's a great ape.

More alarming news:

Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

MADRID, May 25 (Reuters) - Killer whales severely damaged a sailing boat off the coast of southern Spain, the local maritime rescue service said on Thursday, adding to dozens of orca attacks on vessels recorded so far this year on Spanish and Portuguese coasts. — Reuters

The article does not indicate whether the whales took cupcakes, orange soda, or other similar food items.

Incel orcas, probably.

Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain — Reuters

Barbate, Cádiz...

When I read the headline that's the location I thought about. Fantastic and gorgeous port city. The Japanese companies pay a lot of money to the Spanish government to buy tuna and seafood there.

Incel orcas, probably. — BC

I would not be at all surprised.

Hopefully they'll spray some sort of poison into that area and kill those killer whales before it's a bigger problem.

Hopefully they'll spray some sort of poison into that area and kill those killer whales before it's a bigger problem. — Hanover

My understanding is that they plan to plant kudzu on the ocean bottom as a way of controlling the whales.

Here's the movie listing for the Ron DeSantis film festival:

• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Mulan
• I was a Male War Bride
• Tootsie
• The Crying Game
• Some Like it Hot

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert is good drag comedy.

Will Ron Himself attend? If he does, he'll probably need to be in a straitjacket and glued to his seat, lest he bolt or go crazy and attack the screen,

Lou Reed's Take a Walk on the Wild Side can play as background before the previews.

… Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
… She says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Said, "Hey, honey
Take a walk on the wild side"
… Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
… She says, "Hey, babe...

Since Ronny will be all tied up anyway, might as well screen PINK FLAMINGOES for the finale. It'll blow his head off (assuming he doesn't secretly adore Divine--not to be ruled out).

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert — BC

I also thought of "Boys Don't Cry," but decided I only want to include movies that would generally be considered inoffensive in order to underline the irony and hypocrisy of DeSantis's actions.

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert — BC

Thinking about it again, I should probably leave "The Crying Game" off the list. We can add "Hairspray" to make up for that.