Deke wins the lottery for making me laugh this week, with his surprise guest appearance by his buddy T-Bone on Friday’s live stream.
Going all out this time, Deke got a picture of T-Bone printed out at Walmart, taped it to a paper plate, taped that to a wooden spoon, and had “T-Bone” read his Favourite Concerts list on the show.
Thanks for making me laugh dude!
Good doggies! Music is “Contentions” by Dr. Kathryn Ladano, from Masked.
Do you hate birds? Dr. Sheldon Cooper isn’t a fan. I saw this on the back of a delivery truck the other day, and couldn’t help but think that these icons for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram spell out “f’in bird”!
I’m not a fishing guy at all, but I have a lot of friends who enjoy it regularly. I saw this sticker on the back of a car and I had to take a photo. This one is for my fishing buddies!
My favourite single comic book growing up was Marvel Star Wars issue #47: “Droid World”. I have three copies today including the one I originally had back in 1981. The post-Empire period is the one I remember most fondly, even though Han Solo was absent from the story, frozen in Jabba’s dungeon. I took this issue everywhere with me. It is tattered but still barely holding together. At the lake or at home, I kept it near. I tried to draw the robots inside, with the comic pages splashed open on the driveway. Best friend friend Bob was with me with pen in hand.
I recently opened it again and came across a page that had to be Bob’s handiwork. He was the destructive one, not me. In ink he scrawled a word bubble on an ad page featuring the Hulk and a dollar bill with the face of Stan Lee. Stan Lee + Hulk = Stulk?
Whatever the reason for this comic book graffiti, at least I have my two backup copies of “Droid World”. I can’t remember him doing this but it had to be Bob!
Instead of a Sunday Chuckle, I give you something better: this video (which has a couple chuckles in it) and three Max the Axe songs: “River Grand”, “Overload” and “Gods on the Radio”.
The video above is just a summation of our awesome weekend. Look for a cameo by Superdekes from our Live Streamin’ Weekend. I hope you were able to stay cool in this heat as I was! Sometimes people talk about the Top Ten Swims they’ve ever had in their lives. I may have had two of the top ten this weekend. You be the judge!
And thank you to John Snow of 2 Loud 2 Old Music for the birthday gift below. I promise I will review it soon!
Also a special Happy Birthday to my Grandma Dolly who turns 96 today!
I guess the guy across the road at the lake fancies himself a bit of a do-it-yourself-er. He has all the accoutrements: a pickup truck, some kind of four-wheeler ATV, and assorted doohickies. This season there has been a skunk spotted running between his place to my sister’s. Though the skunk hasn’t been bothering anyone, he decided it would be smart to try and catch this skunk. Without assistance.
I came into this story when I was burning up my dad’s old rotten wood last week. “Whew!” I said when I caught a strong whiff of skunk. “It must be coming from the wood.” It was so powerful, I assumed the skunk had its way with the woodpile and that’s what I was smelling. I was wrong. It was Tool Time With Tim across the street. He might have caught the skunk, but in retaliation it unleashed its full fury and you could still smell it a week later.
Lesson here: don’t be like Tool Time. Call a professional, or just leave it the hell alone!
Thussy here with another Sunday Chuckle Takeover. You can buy absolutely anything on the internet, and Wish.com is definitely a site that offers some of the weirder things. Here comes another four that the powers-that-be think we cannot live without.
Chicken helmets, and they come in seven different colours. I want to go out and buy a chicken just to buy it a little helmet. Ride down the road on a motorcycle with a chicken sitting on the gas tank. Pull up to a biker bar with little Oscar Goldman.*
A home laser tattoo removal system. There are some things that should never be done at home and tattoo removal is definitely one of them. What are they going to sell next, My First Home Laser Eye Surgery Kit? Don’t add another stupid decision to an already stupid tattoo choice. If a professional put the tattoo on you get a professional to take it off you.
Where the hell was this when I was a kid? A muffler for when you put a playing card in your spokes. So then I wouldn’t just be annoying my parents riding around the driveway I could amplify it and annoy the entire neighbourhood.
Meat socks, all I know is my bacon budget would go way up because every time I wore these they make me crave bacon. Also why is one of the options to make your socks looks like shoes, just wear shoes.
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As you know, I’ve been live streaming on weekends during lockdown. Well that’s not all!
Maybe you’ve caught a live instalment of Ladano’s Wild Kingdom too? I get these massive earthworms on the front lawn, and since we’re locked down with nothing else to do, people have been watching live streams of worms! For your Sunday Chuckle, here’s an episode of Ladano’s Wild Kingdom.
It’s an historic episode too. It’s the first one where James Kalyn offered me $7 to eat a worm and a stick!
On Saturday the phone rang. I was expecting it to be my dad, since I had just attempted to call him.
“Hello!” I answered in a goofy Seinfeld-like voice.
“Well hello!” said the voice on the other end. It kind of sounded like my favourite aunt.
“Hello!” I answered back in the same goofy voice.
“I’m just calling to check in and see how you’re doing in this pandemic!” said the voice on the other end. It was not my aunt and my guard was now up.
“I’m doing great!” I said, not exactly lying, all things considered.
“This is Kathy calling from the Jehova’s Witnesses!”
I froze and reverted back to my basic phone instincts. I hung up.
Long story shot, Kathy called back two more times thinking we just got disconnected. The second time I still thought it was my dad! It is comforting to know that the Jehova’s Witnesses have evolved to deal with the pandemic! They are not able to go door to door, so now I have to avoid them in different ways!
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