Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper’s old eyes are prone to mischief, witnessed him—the keeper, puzzling over a distant scene of hillside activity that he could not identify until he used binoculars to see a dozen or so small children rolling down a grassy slope under the …
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Category:Humor
Kickass Looks at the Map
Photo by Dominika Roseclay from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper did a strange thing recently in driving from a distant location to his home: he looked at an actual map, noted the roads he wanted to travel, then ignored the smug blabbing of passengers’ navigation devices, and made the drive as …
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Kickass and the Lost Prop
W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating the good-news story about the 1200-year-old dugout canoe being found and retrieved from Lake Mendota, to become the oldest retrieved watercraft in local history. And, of course, news of the event triggered a Lake Mendota memory of …
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Kickass and Dumb Rodgers
All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper endures a sore arm from a Covid booster shot, he cannot resist pointing out that in an Oct. 29 Kickass rant, he detailed his divorce from NFL football and all that goes with it, including the …
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Kickass Remembers the Hunt
Photo by Andrew Coop on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper regretfully turned down an invitation from son Larry to join him, grandsons Nick and Tony and other assorted riffraff at their woods cabin in the beautiful southern Minnesota driftless area for a weekend deer hunt. With other matters interceding, the keeper was left to …
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Kickass and Regurgitation
alleZSoyez, derivative mork of, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to challenge the keeper in his conclusion that the very natural process of regurgitation used by some birds and animals to feed their young, by bees to make honey and by cows to chew their cuds, is …
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Kickass and Halloween Disappointment
Peachyeung316, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, once again tries to console the keeper in his post-Halloween disappointment at not having the imagination to convert his outhouse-dated Halloween history into something equally stupid, like tipping over a bathroom. Since a brief attempt at trick-or-treating with a shot glass back …
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Kickass and Absurdity Rants
Retron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, compares the keeper’s railing and ranting against life’s absurdities to a dog howling at the moon; and further advises him to accept his existential identity with at least as much grace as the howling dog eventually recognizing that no matter how much …
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Kickass and Watching Football
Evert F. Baumgardner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass , the doorstop dog, is trying to assist the keeper in filling the entertainment void that occurred some years ago when he—the keeper stopped watching TV football games, his thinking at the time being that late in the 4th quarter of his life there …
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Kickass Does the Milking
Photo by cottonbro from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that Wisconsin numbers work out to mean that for every dairy cow in the state there are five people; and none of those five will have anything to do with milking the cow. As it now stands, while there is some movement …
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Kickass and Fitting In
Doug Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes one of the character traits shared by dogs and humans and birds is the lifelong challenge of “fitting in”– to a pack or a flock or a tribe; and this verity came home to roost in recent days as the …
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Kickass and Red Light Capitol
Anjaneyadas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that from their new location, he and Phyllis have a distant nighttime view of the lighted Capital Dome showing it to be in the proximity of several blinking red lights. The obvious conclusion was too easy for …
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