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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,594

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

I can be good, I really can.  I can control my mouth, at least part of the time, I really can.

On one of the golf courses I go to when you finish the 18th hole, you pass by the first tee.  Which is what I was doing yesterday afternoon.  On the first tee were four young men, late teens or early twenties, teeing off.  Just as an aside, it is so hard for me tell ages these days, especially with that group, they all look like babies to me.

All four of them were dressed very similarly, tee shirts and Tom Selleck shorts.  However, one of the youngsters had on a pair of very red sneakers (to use an antiquated word).  I so wanted to  say to him, “nice shoes, Dorothy,” but I refrained.

See I can be nice.  Besides it would have be four against one.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,594

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

All I am saying is that is a good thing they do not put horns on golf carts.  I would be trouble at least some of the time.

What brought that up?  I was playing behind a twosome who had loaded up with beer before teeing off.  By about the 15th hole their golf had become very erratic, and their concern for we folks playing behind them nil. Unfortunately, there are more than a few souls who use golf as an excuse to drink. Oh well.

I don’t know if behavior has become worse on public golf courses, but it seems to have.  COVID brought out a lot of new golfers as it was seen as semi-safe activity to do with other folks.  Then you add in Bluetooth speakers that allow folks to play music on the golf course, usually much too loud.  I have had more than one “discussion” with other golfers about their music.  It amazes me at one level with ear buds, mini audio-phones so ubiquitous.

As my granddaddy was fond of saying, “there is a time place for everything.”

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #6,000

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

I am beginning to understand something I have seen often, and, is in fact, a bit of a stereotype.  It may be due to the weight I have lost of late, or perhaps the way my body has changed as my hair has whitened. Whatever the cause, I find myself hitching my britches up way up past my hips in an attempt to keep them from sagging down around my knees. I show my ass often enough without actually showing my ass.

So, if you see  me walking with my trousers up around my armpits, I am not trying to imitate Steve Urkel, I am just old.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,467

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

I was on a beer run.  As I was entering the package store late on this sunny afternoon, three sweet young things were exiting. They were dressed in their best summertime, revealing outfits.  Even if you only had a few milligrams of testosterone floating around in your system, it would have been hard to not have checked them out, which I was.  As I got near to the gaggle of girls I overheard one of them say to another, “I will turn 25 before you turn 23.”

All of sudden I felt like a dirty old man… oh well.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #9,374

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

I was shopping for staples at Aldi, browsing through the produce section I encountered cucumbers in their original shipping cartons, labeled both in English and Spanish.  What caught my attention was the carton labeled “conventional cucumber”.  Made wonder what an unconventional cucumber was, and could I get one to try.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #7,863

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

My moment of terror:

There I was lying wide awake in our king size bed, staring at the ceiling, listening to Señora and the The Wee Dog breathing, but in not rhythm.  Then it suddenly dawned on me, I was THAT guy!

Ouch.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #9,638

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

The only time I really look at myself is when I am shaving in the morning as it is almost impossible to do a good job shaving without peering in a mirror.  The rest of time I prefer to not see the old man glaring at me in the looking glass.

This morning, for some reason, I focused on the nearly bilaterally symmetrical wrinkles I have developed at the corners of  my mouth that descend vertically, almost darting under my chin. They are even more prominent as my resting face mouth is a bit of a frown.

To me they appear to be the lines similiar to the mouth of a ventriloquist’s dummy or that of a puppet that allow the opening and closing of that orifice.

All of which started me wondering, who is pulling my strings?

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #5,905

yeah I know you did not ask!

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





Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner, Mark Zuckerberg,  Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos while they do not look exactly alike, they do look very similar.

Coincidence?

I am beginning to believe they are from the same alien race. Kokopelli only knows how they reproduce on their planet or in their dimension, but they all appear to be brood mates. They all appear to be from a species that feeds on the misery of others, from a species that their need to consume this form of substance knows no bounds.  There cannot be too much misery in the world for them and their insatiable appetites .

Wait, you are telling me they cannot be aliens as they have birth certificates.  Well, Obama‘s supposed birth in Hawaii   is proof that birth certificates can be forged.

Perhaps AI can help us come up with a facial template to identify these unwanted visitors.  Wait.  Are you trying to tell me AI is also an import from this same extraterrestrial source? Time to duck and cover.

And so it should not be.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #9,306

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

Tattoos and piercings are like spices… a little will do ya.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,186

yeah I know you did not ask!

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

Sanford and Son was originally aired from 1972 to 1977. I do not recall watching the show during that period, but at one point in my life I watched the reruns a lot. Redd Foxx was born in 1922, which would have made him 50 to 55 years old during the original run of the show. I remember thinking how old he appeared in those 30 minute comedic episodes.

I was flipping through the channels the other day, and I came across an episode of the show.  I watched a few minutes of it, thinking how young Redd Foxx looked.

Ouch.

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