Showing posts with label Mistakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mistakes. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Notes to self

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  1.  If you find an old bottle of Miralax , don't assume that just because it's old, it may not work as well as a fresh product wo...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Doofus Of The Day #1,129

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  An "influencer" in Nebraska appears to have generated entirely the wrong kind of influence in the firearms community. A Lincoln...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

I bet the locals were a bit garum-py over that...

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  For those who didn't know, the staple sauce throughout the Roman Empire of old was called garum . Garum is a fermented fish sauce that...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Er... about those berries...

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  I was amused to see this list over at Raconteur Press's Substack .  Click the image for a larger view. I've used literally all of ...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

I smell a large, hairy, stinking rat...

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  Guess what? The woman suspected of trying to blow up a Ukrainian tycoon in Monaco has been found shot dead near Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovsk...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Quote of the day

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  From Theodore Dalrymple, writing in City Journal about the abysmal architecture of American embassies: The new American embassy in Maputo...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

A different way to look at inflation

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  Inflation hits the contraceptive market!  Reuters reports : Malaysia's Karex Bhd, the world's top condom producer, plans to raise ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2026

Not false advertising - just different transatlantic meanings

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  I enjoyed a BBC article on the various ways and means British workers had used to wake up in time for their jobs.  Here's how it begi...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Doofus Of The Day #1,128

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  Today's award goes to police and tax authorities in South Korea for an epic blunder . Soon after South Korean police posted a press re...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The lighter side of relationships

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  This cartoon is a fun reminder of the early stages of relationships, when one is still finding out about the other's haps and mishaps,...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Cognitive dissonance - ammunition edition?

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  Fellow blogger Eaton Rapids Joe mentioned Republic Ammunition in a recent post , particularly their low-cost primers.  I took a look at t...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Fire in the hole!

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  Well, with a news report like this: Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt ... what other common...
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Friday, January 16, 2026

So... what sex am I, again???

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  I went to a local hospital this week to pick up some CD's containing recent diagnostic imagery.  I duly reported in, and was directed ...
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Friday, January 2, 2026

Oh, nicely played, sir!

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  It seems Ukraine's secret services (whatever they call themselves) have scored one for the home team against their Russian equivalent...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

It's the entitled attitude that gets me...

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  I can only hope she was hauled away in handcuffs - after being hosed down so that the paint didn't get all over the police cruiser! I...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Doofus Of The Day #1,127

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  Today's award goes to a particularly dense TikTok user who filmed herself committing a felony.  She threw a stolen gun off the Cross L...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Doofus Of The Day #1,126

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  Today's award goes to a bank robber in Ohio . A 42-year-old man was arrested Friday morning after robbing the Huntington Bank on West ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Is it possible for a politician to be even more cretinous than usual? Oh, yes...

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  The politician in question is Cory Booker .  Basically, if it moves, as far as he's concerned it's Fascist, and must be condemned ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Can't fool Grandma!

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  There's a wonderful video clip on X showing a perfectly healthy young man pretending to be disabled and begging for money . . . until ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

I've heard of a stool pigeon, but a stool parrot???

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  As I'm sure most readers know, the term " stool pigeon " is used to refer to an informant who provides police with informati...
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