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Curmudgeon Certificates | Now Purchase by Credit Card

You can now purchase Curmudgeon Certificates using your credit/debit card.  Quick run and shout it from the mountain top.  Stop the presses, we have a new lead story. Tell everyone you know. Scribble it on the job johnny walls.

Can there be a more perfect gift for your favorite curmudgeon for Christmas, for their birthday, for… well, just any occasional what so ever?

While every true curmudgeon is self-aware enough to know they are a curmudgeon, having official validation via a gold embossed, letter size, suitable for framing piece of card stock, is just icing on the cake.  Who knows, it might even elicit a smile.

Check it out @ Curmudgeon Certificates

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Cousin Perry Nailed Señora

My cousin Perry, whom we sometimes insult by calling him the sixth Rush boy, sent this to me with the comment “For Robin.”

Señora and I were on a camping trip a few years ago. I did not think my Tacoma was going to make it back home due to all the rocks she loaded on to it. Her many flower beds are bordered with rocks she has collected from various places, a couple of which are almost big enough to be classified as boulders.

Since I “borrowed” their cartoon for my blog, let me add a link to their online store: Luna’s Spiritual Shop

And so it goes.

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The Global Impact of Curmudgeon-Alley

The Global Impact of Curmudgeon-Alley

Okay, please be so kind as to pick yourself off the floor from laughing so uproariously at the title of this posting: The Global Impact of Curmudgeon-Alley.  It is not seemly to make such a display of yourself.

What Does It Signify

The above is a global hit map of the various places a page of my blog has been opened.  I did not add this little app to my website until I had been blogging for a few years, so many hits from my “early period” are lacking.  I did find what it says Continue reading “The Global Impact of Curmudgeon-Alley”

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #3,425

yeah I know you did not ask!

You should be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of them.

Okay, this was not my random thought, but it could well have been.

One of my brothers, a fellow curmudgeon, passed this onto me.  He was at Wally World purchasing light bulbs utilizing the latest technology.  He had the random realization that, as he put it,  “the fire of these new light bulbs would, in all probability, be burning long after my fire has extinguished.”

It is interesting that my parents had five male progeny, four of us whom morphed into curmudgeons a loooonng time ago.  Oh well, as I am fond of saying some of my best friends are curmudgeons.

As I write this I had my own random thought.  Is there an Al-Anon group for partners of curmudgeons? Just saying…

And so it goes.

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Matrimonial Log – Star Date 5784.284

“Matrimony… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Casamiento Segundo, its until-death-do-us-part mission… to explore a strange new relationship… to seek out a new life and new adventures… to boldly go where no sane couple has gone before.”

It is a beautiful autumnal morning here in the St. Louis metropolitan area. I had a routine dental appointment at 0900 for a cleaning and x-rays.  Teeth are great, thanks for asking.

As I was checking out the administrative person behind the desk asked what was I going to do with the rest of this beautiful day.

“Well,” I replied, “I am retired and I am going to do whatever my muse moves me to do.”

I went on to add, “Of course my muse’s name is Robin and I am married to her.”

For once I got a real laugh, not the pity laugh I am used to with my chronic, groan-worthy jokes that tend to cause people’s eyes to roll  backwards in their heads.

And so it goes.

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Word of the Day – Casus belli

  • Noun: Casus belli
    1. an event or action that justifies or allegedly justifies a war or conflict
  • Synonyms:
    1.  affront
    2.  harassment
    3.  insult
    4.  cause
    5.  challenge
    6.  grounds
    7.  incentive
    8.  inducement
    9.  injury
    10.  instigation
    11.  justification
    12.  motivation
    13.  offense
    14. provoking
  • Usage:
    1. “He hadn’t forgotten Ben-Gurion’s pledge at the end of the Suez Crisis that Israel would consider any blockade of its shipping a casus belli, an act justifying war. “
  • Encountered:
    1.  While reading Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch

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Quote of the Day – William Faulkner

With what is transpiring in Israel, this quote seemed very apropos.  Two peoples, both feeling they have legitimate claims to sole ownership of the same piece of terra firma. One through living there for millennium, the other through Biblical scripture.  Three religions seeing this small piece of land as holy, and all only accommodating the other religions through necessity. If there is a solution, it has been beyond our best political minds.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ~~William Faulkner

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #9,916


yeah I know you did not ask!

You should be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of them.

I was cleaning up the phone log on my cellular telephone today.  I noticed that from all appearances my best friend – the one who the calls me the most – must be a person with the uncommon first name of Scam and the unlikely last name of Likely.

They must be reasonable thick skinned as they keep calling back even with me not being a very good friend/buddy.  If I just don’t ignore their call, I decline it immediately.

And so it goes.