Category:Humor

Kickass and Romy’s Tooth

Posted on March 30, 2024Updated on March 30, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Family, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: David Shankbone modified by R-E-AL (talk | contribs | Gallery) (German Wikipedia) David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s warped attempt to share life with his great grandchildren by losing a tooth about the same time that Romy lost one of her hers. Not a …
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Kickass and Skin Cancer

Posted on March 29, 2024Updated on March 29, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Health, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Gabriel Vanslette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s minor brush with cancer as a couple of young VA dermatologists had at the back of his right hand with scalpels to excise a lesion that had suspect ambitions. As cancer threats go, the keeper’s is …
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Kickass and Old Kids

Posted on March 28, 2024Updated on March 28, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be consulting with lawyers to sue his youngest son Mike for lying about his age, which if calculations are accurate, would make the keeper older than Plymouth Rock. The suit will also seek damages for the stress presented by …
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Kickass and Migration

Posted on March 27, 2024Updated on March 27, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Nature, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in proclaiming that he will not cross that bridge when he comes to it, especially if it leads into Baltimore, he will take that “road not taken” hoping it leads to somebody’s woods, and he will be “on the road again” …
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Kickass and Big Money

Posted on March 26, 2024Updated on March 26, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Economy, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Whoisjohngalt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper tries to maintain at least some low-rung position in the increasing have-and-have-not world he wonders how long it will be before basic weather is so controlled by big money interests that he and Phyllis will somehow …
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Kickass and Katie Visit

Posted on March 25, 2024Updated on March 25, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, celebrates with the keeper and Phyllis the fact that the only thing better than a grandchild visit is when one—Katie, brings her family—guitar player husband Chris and daughters Bella and Sophia for a personal Sunday afternoon concert and catch-up visit notable for its music …
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Kickass as Movie Critic

Posted on March 24, 2024Updated on March 24, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Movies

Attribution: Lorie Shaull, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s credentials as a movie critic ran out sometime shortly after “Bambi” so he was out of his league when he took in “Bad River” at the Fitchburg theatre. After first managing to sit through the incredibly …
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Kickass and Norwegian Women

Posted on March 23, 2024Updated on March 23, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Memories, Wisconsin

Attribution: Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that if you are fortunate enough to have had Norwegian women in your life you are one lucky dog. The keeper speaks with the authority of having had a Norwegian mother and all the Norwegin ancestry that went …
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Kickass and the Permanent Baby Bump

Posted on March 22, 2024Updated on March 22, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Books, Family, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recruited the photo artistry of Phyllis in updating the “baby bump” photo of five years ago when he posed with “expecting” granddaughter in-laws Lindsey, Ari and Becky; with the keeper’s “bump” indicating at the time that he might be pregnant …
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Kickass and Organ Recitals

Posted on March 21, 2024Updated on March 21, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Health, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in promoting his conversation guide for seniors in an effort to put limits on lengthy “organ recitals,” like the one at a recent lunch table with Phyllis, Jane and Donna. (The winning recital had to …
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Kickass and Being 48

Posted on March 20, 2024Updated on March 20, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Stadtarchiv Kiel , CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper asked his and Phyllis’s fellow Vista West residents at a social gathering to comment on something from their lives from when they were 48 years old. Amazingly, it turns out that many people denied ever …
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Kickass and Birdwatching

Posted on March 19, 2024Updated on March 19, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Nature

Attribution: John Gerrard Keulemans , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to stop the keeper from taking on impossible missions and so it was that when he—the keeper heard about Peter Kaestner traveling to the Philippines to see an orange tufted spider hunter to become the 10,000th bird he …
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