Dr Wingnut

Category: General

  • Spring is just one month away

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    Wear cotton for comfort and leather for looks, but if it’s warmth you want, put on the wool.Bob Joyce’s Norwegian Grandmother – StarTribune 2021-02-20

  • Super Bowl LV

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    Insipid, boring, and stupid pretty much sums up the event. The game was boring (Big blowout for Tampa Bay), half-time was insipid (The Weeknd), and the commercials were stupid. There was only one commercial, for some hard lemonade that was mildly amusing. I did however see a new product I needed, a Pittbull skull shaver.

  • Doctor Zhivago

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    In the scene when the doctor returns from stealing wood from the fence and Yevgraf (Alec Guinness) snaps his fingers which causes the mob to magically dissipate from the apartment, my wife said, “Ooooooh. He has the force even in this one.” Pretty good observation from someone who’s not that into Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I…

  • On 2020…

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    Never make Father Time say “Hold my beer” while he attempts some new move that will really put him in the record books.James Lileks, Star-Tribune, 2021-01-04

  • Words of the year – 2020

    Words of the year – 2020

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    Not “word” of the year this year, but “words.” This list was posted in the 2020-12-25/28 issue of Time. My favorite was Blursday which pretty much sums up 2020 for me and I first heard it on CBS Sunday Morning on the 2020-12-27 episode, just before I picked up the paper copy of Time.. Antiracist, adjective:…

  • Who knew???

    Who knew???

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    Coronavirus crisis may bet “worse and worse and worse,” WHO chief warns…

  • Cottage Industry

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    The $400 clue in the category, “The Second Millennium” on Jeopardy! yesterday, 2020-12-03, was: “Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked from home in what’s called this kind of house industry.” The COVID-19 pandemic is really making WFH (Work from Home) the predominant cottage industry of the 21st Century.