Month: August 2021

FRIIIIIIIIDAY!!

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Today is the birthday, in 1929, of Mike Elliott, saxophonist for The Foundations. They played this…

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I’m a little bit THURSDAY

Forest Walk

On this day in 1956, Doris Day was at the top of the charts with her single, Que Sera Sera. The song was featured in Alfred Hitchcocks’s movie, The Man Who Knew Too Much starring James Stewart and Doris Day.

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Wet WEDNESDAY

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Brothers in spirit

Working from home?

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Today is the birthday, in 1936. of Elsbeary Hobbs of The Drifters.

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toot toot TUESDAY

We have to make choices in life

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Replacing your potato chips with grapefruit as a snack you can lose up to 90% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

BADA BING!

An engineer and an anti-vaxxer walk up to a bridge. The bridge is the only crossing over a notoriously crocodile-infested river, so the two prepare to cross. Just before they set foot on the bridge the anti-vaxxer halts the engineer. “How safe is it to cross this bridge exactly?” he asks. “99.97%,” the engineer replies confidently. The anti-vaxxer thinks for a moment before turning around. “Guess I’m swimming then.”

How do you properly milk a flock of sheep? Tell them the election was stolen, then ask for money.

A Burglar broke into our house last night. I didn’t shoot him. I just put the red laser dot on his forehead. Our three cats did the rest.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Our government struggles with the decision of whether to cripple an entire generation with debt or tax 3 billionaires a bit more.

Today my daughter called me ‘Birth Person’.I replied, “Yes, Financial Drain?”.

Them: I’d take a bullet for my country.Me: You won’t even take a needle for your neighbors. Sit down and shut up.

I just saw on the news that a man has discovered how to do origami backward!More on this story as it unfolds.

No man is an island. Although my friend Archie Pelago comes close.

If anybody has a good fish pun…Let minnow.

I can’t get over the fact that the word ‘gullible’ upside down looks like a cat.

Broke a light bulb today. So does that mean I will have seven years of bad ideas?

Walmart is opening dental offices in some of its stores. There will be an express lane for people with 12 teeth or less.

When my kid is upset I let her color my tattoo! She just needs a shoulder to Crayon.

What if UFOs are just billionaires from other planets?

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Today is the birthday, in 1926, of Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto). He served as an infantryman in World War II in the European Theater and, after his discharge in 1946, he studied at the American Theater Wing under the GI Bill. After singing with Pearl Bailey at several NY clubs, he was signed to the Columbia Record label by Mitch Miller. He had a number one hit – Because of You – in 1951. He has had an incredibly long and successful career. He recorded this song with Lady Gaga in 2011.

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MUNDAI

Whale Watching Fail

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The first Covid test ever.

How to ask for money

Hallelujah brothers and sisters!

Today is the birthday, in 1937, of Garth Hudson, multi-instrumentalist (Lowrey organ, piano, accordion, saxophone). He played with The Band and was the principal architect of their sound. He was, in addition, a much in demand session musician recording with Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen and others. Here he is playing with The Band.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies