Mike A

Welcome to the real world, kid: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/viral-tiktok-college-graduate-9-to-5-job-b2435504.html I was shocked on my first day at my first 9 to 5 job as well. After the first day, I came home planning to watch Monday Night Football, which started at 6:00 PM. I was home in time to watch the beginning, but by 6:15, I was asleep in the armchair 🤣😆🤪.

That’s for sure. I remember being able to wander around a lot, just as long as I showed up by dinner time. Noel posted a story about wandering around San Francisco with his brother when they were kids. There was a local dairy owned by a former San Francisco mayor, George Christopher. Cristopher Milk would print tickets on their milk cartoons for kids 12 and under to get in free for certain Giants, 49ers & Warriors games. Candlestick Park was my second home. Got to see lots of games with Willie Mays, Willie McCovey & Juan Marichal with my friends without any parents and for just bus fare to & from Candlestick. Nowadays kids have “play dates”? Where’s the spontaneity? Also remember wandering around Fisherman’s Wharf in the summer to gawk at the tourists shivering in their summer clothes 😊

In Germany it is called the Teufelsrad but in the USA it would be called the Litigation Wheel 🤣 I only just discovered it two weeks ago on YouTube and never seen anything like it, I've never been to an Octoberfest so it looks like fun Oh, yeah, those spinning disk rides have been around for many decades in the U.S. Check out the features section in this Wikipedia article on Funhouses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funhouse San Francisco had a Funhouse at Playland-At-The-Beach, an amusement park from 1926-1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playland_(San_Francisco) And their fun house had a spinning disk, called the Joy Wheel I remember that disk very well, rode it many times (55-60 years ago, where did all that time go 🤔). You waited in line and watched other kids being thrown off it & wondered "Should I really do this............OF COURSE!!" We were moths drawn to the flame 🤣. You observed how other kids did, who survived. Obviously, the key is to get to the exact center of the disk. Then you try to judge where your position in line will be when the group you go in with is let in. Hopefully in front, so you stand a chance of elbowing your way in the ensuing scrum that goes diving for the center. If you're towards the end, you're walking dead, the amusement park equivalent of cannon fodder, as the first ones off the disk are those on the edges. And when the disk starts turning, all thoughts of strategy go out the window as the world starts spinning around and centrifugal force decides your fate. Dangerous? One of the girls that lived across the street from me, about 6 or 7 years older, broke her hip on that ride. I remember it because I saw the ambulance stop by at her house to let her mother know what happened and which hospital they were taking her to (no cellphones for kids to call their parents in those days).

Or you could get this cat:

Reminds me of a younger couple that used to live next door to us. They had a cat and a dog. My wife & I used to baby sit their animals if the couple would go away for a weekend, or if they were going to be late getting home from work, they'd phone us & we would go next door to feed their cat and dog. Anyway, I had a DVD similar to the one above, and gave it to the guy to borrow for his cat. He looked at the DVD and said "Ohhh...KITTY PORN!!!!" 🤣

We have live performances over here. After breakfast, Karmellow (left) & Tigger (right) spend the morning binge watching their favorite program:

Luckily I stumbled upon it & was able to post it at 2150 Pacific Daylight Time before October 16 expired. 😅

Happy Global Cat Day!

Funny you should mention that; I was thinking about a nickname when remembering Russ Francis. I think you may mean the following. Jerry Rice was drafted in 1985. He had an interesting haircut when he arrived: Russ Francis coined the nickname his teammates called him: "FiFi"🐩. Jerry Rice subsequently changed his hair styling. 😂 P.S. Niners looking "Purdy-good" with Mr. Irrelevant.

49ers as well.

https://news.yahoo.com/amish-communities-using-surprising-kind-113000850.html

Is it a good idea to put this type of car in the hands of non-expert drivers? 🤔

I thought the same, why is he's reporting a heat wave and advising to wear light clothes when he's wearing a dark & hooded jacket? I had to look up who he is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_MacDonald

What was he thinking? 🤣 Could this be something that a rancher who is experiencing a mid-life crisis would do?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huell_Howser

What did the bull think? “Holy Cow, that ride scared the $#*& out of me!”

Joe Pesci is the absolute greatest as a mobster, wise guy, etc. I love him, he's funny as *&#% ! This is a sketch from when he appeared on Saturday Night Live years ago, about a mobster shopping for a pinky ring (read his lips🤣)

The Flaming Tar Barrels video states "the origins of this tradition are lost in time." Well, maybe some serfs who got burned by the pennies from Honiton relocated to Ottery St. Mary & one day came back to Honiton carrying flaming tar barrels & threw them into the homes of those who threw those hot pennies as payback 🔥🤪

Same here.

As Ricky Ricardo would say, “Lemee ‘splain it to yoo”🤪. The lady at the Bay Bridge was crazy. The guy going to court for a previous charge by traveling in a stolen car is stupid.

From this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle: Man arrested after allegedly parking stolen car at East Bay courthouse “A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly driving a stolen vehicle to an East Bay courthouse for an appearance tied to an unrelated separate alleged crime, authorities said. William Fletcher, 54, was booked at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion for possession of a stolen vehicle, said Lt. Jared Hattaway with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dublin police were alerted by one of the city’s license plate readers of a possible stolen car entering the city, Hattaway said. Officers went looking for the vehicle and found it unoccupied in the parking lot of the East County Hall of Justice Superior Court building. After monitoring the vehicle to make an arrest, officers arrested Fletcher without incident as he was getting into the car, authorities said. “Upon further investigation, Mr. Fletcher had driven the stolen vehicle to the courthouse for an unrelated criminal matter,” Hattaway said in an email. He did not provide more details about the unrelated crime.”