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ReplyDeleteWhat sends chills up your spine? Nuthin', I expect, which youse bums is so tough.
The only thing that sends chills up my spine is a guarantee of customer satisfaction! MAD Magazine and Tales Of The Unexpected comics never guaranteed anything. I loved them both.
ReplyDeleteNot to be too clinical: the hypothalamus part of my brain sends a signal to my arrector pili muscle, ergo chills up my spine.
ReplyDeleteCoulrophobia. Seriously, clowns scare the shit out of me.
Jesus freaking christ yes. The ones meant to be scary - not so much. It's the kids' party clowns, the circus clowns, the ones you're supposed to laugh at ... the eldritch spawn of th' Elder Gods ...
DeleteThe 2022 Midterm elections come to mind..............
ReplyDeleteGood call. I think Texas should be allowed to secede and form a nation-state. All Republicans will get a free ticket there on cattle trucks. They can build their own wall around it and watch their economy die as oil loses value. They'll be happier there, maskless, anti-vax and free as God Intended Americans To Be. Also, every citizen will automatically be sworn in as a militia-style cop and allowed to open carry. It'll be like heaven for them. For a while, anyway.
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DeleteI read an article yesterday that showed once again what a sneering and condescending prick Don Henley is. Then I thought of his old buddy JD Souther who is also a sneering condescending prick and then I remembered that they're both from Texas.
DeleteTexans gonna Texan, I guess.
The only good news (maybe?): It's not freakin' Florida. But it's definitely giving it a run for its money in the worst of the worst of the decidedly un-united states sweepstakes.
What frightens me is Canadian town names that sound like futuristic racial slurs.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure we all have our favorites!
Deletefrom your mind to my nightmare....
ReplyDeleteWho dares explore the depths of eeriness?
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Ventriloquist dummies, especially the creepy little wooden bastard in the old movie Dead of Night.
ReplyDeleteHey! Shug! It's not an "old" movie! It's just a movie!
DeleteAnd one of the finest, too.