Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis’s joy in watching the election returns of Sen. Warnock was blunted by recalling the recent senatorial election in their own state when a decent capable candidate was defeated …
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Kickass and Ten Commandments
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, considering all the blah-blah about suspending the Constitution, is working with the keeper to have the Ten Commandments suspended in the interest of cleaning up his–the keeper’s record enough so that, if he should ever be so inclined, he could apply …
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Kickass is Not a Coach
Apyanac, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, waits while the keeper recalculates what his life might have been had he chose to go into coaching and then had the good fortune to rise to the top collegiate and professional ranks: As per recent UW news, he would have a …
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Kickass and Sunday Morning Thoughts
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along a few of the keeper’s random Sunday morning thoughts: *Driving out to Mazo for Mary Beth’s coffee and fresh beignets at “Basecamp”will get you doused in powdered sugar and save you a trip to New Orleans. *Listening to a recent Hillary interview …
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Kickass and The Christmas Poem
Kelvin Kay, en:user:kkmd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps through the following: As a man of quiet and reason, The keeper sees this season Fraught with troubles and woes, Total dumbness wherever he goes. People buying things they don’t need, If it isn’t essential, it must be greed. …
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Kickass and Dining at Otto’s
Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to make the point with the keeper that all things are relative, and if he persists with his “back in my day” ranting, even more of the populace will dismiss him as hopelessly lost in the fog of the past. …
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Kickass and Staying Inside
Attribution: Camera Eye Photography, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having ventured out yesterday in the wind that was so biting cold it ripped his clothes off and left him shivering naked, is announcing that he will not be going outside again until May of …
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Kickass and the “Talker”
Joshua Sherurcij, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supporting the keeper in his efforts to introduce the “talker,” a device designed to do for talking what the “walker” does for walking for members of his age group. As the “walker” prevents users from falling, the “talker” would prevent them …
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Kickass and No Money Sense
Katrina.Tuliao, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper appreciates the extreme act of kindness displayed by Phyllis’s financial advisor in not laughing at the keeper’s abject money ignorance until the keeper had left the room. Lacking the good judgement to keep his mouth shut, the keeper …
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Kickass and “Treeson”
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to be helpful as the keeper and Phyllis go about proofing “Treeson,” the keepers “Apologia to the trees” that went to make the paper for printing his 35 or so years of newspaper drivel. The 275-page book, with a striking cover design by Phyllis, …
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Dialogues on Being a Stand-Up Guy: How to Color Outside the Lines
Attribution: Edward Kimmel from Takoma Park, MD, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Speaking of Mz. Kari…. I’m here to provide a few comedic relief YouTube recs: Dave Chappelle’s SNL 14 minute stand up—link to it below. He goes after …
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Kickass and the Canadian Fruitcake
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in pretty much staying out of the way as Phyllis went into her annual fruit cake making mode, combining a most interesting collection of colorful elements and beginning the procedure that concludes with long-term soaking in a tasty alcoholic beverage, something …
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