Ka-ho Chu uploaded by R-E-AL (talk | contribs | Gallery) (German Wikipedia) Ka-ho Chu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes on the keeper’s news of the failure of a Wisconsin trade with Minnesota in which Mindless My Pillow Mike would be exchanged for Painful “Jerk-‘em-out” Prehn, the Wausau dentist …
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Kickass and Getting Out of War
Photo by Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has some experience in participating in exits from foreign conflicts, having lost friends while helping take the kinks out of Korea’s 38th parallel 70 years ago. That the parallel has stood the test of time as a barrier against the spread of totalitarianism …
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Kickass and Friday the 13th Weather Forecast
Photo by Mary Gorski By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in bringing weather forecasting into the current century and offers the following Friday the 13th example: *Temperatures and tempers will remain at dangerously high levels as the jet scream of ignorance continues to dominate across the nation. *A severe pillow fight …
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Kickass and Dentist Demonstration
JackintheBox, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps as the keeper, suggests that the office and waiting room of Fred Prehn, the Wausau dentist who inflicts statewide pain by refusing to step down from his expired term on the DNR Board, be occupied by moaning and groaning citizens who …
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Kickass and Birthday Party Invite
Photo by Bill Stokes Kickass passes along the following from the keeper: When you are fortunate enough to get to the unbelievable age of 90, some attention, especially from family members, is generated; and so it has come to pass for me: on Sept. 11, 2021—a month from today, I will be 90 years old; …
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Kickass and the Dyke Road
Joshua Mayer from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have returned from their search of the Central Wisconsin potato fields and wildland for an appropriate site for a Mr. Potato Head monument; and are happy to be home after another …
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Kickass and the Beaver Flood
Mount Rainier National Park from Ashford, WA, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are more or less lost in the wilds of Central Wisconsin where their back road travel was most recently obstructed by beaver. The toothy rodents had clogged a …
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Kickass and Covid Deaths
Prefeitura de Itapevi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting the reappearance of the “Wear a mask” signs; and in their lamenting that the new masking is due to the daily Covid19 death toll climbing to 350, mostly among the unvaccinated, which makes …
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Kickass and Walking and Chewing Gum
Annalyn Gallego/Province of Camarines Sur, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, motivated by the fact that only slightly over 50 percent of Wisconsin residents have had both Covid19 shots, is assisting the keeper in formulating a Covid vaccine mandate based on stupidity as measured by the ability or inability to simultaneously walk …
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Kickass and Missing Children
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in wondering what happened to the children: In one of their meandering forays on a recent flawless summer afternoon across many miles of those wonderful winding driftless-area roads, past hundreds of interesting farms, and through dozens of communities of …
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Kickass and Senior Olympics
English: U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in reporting on little-known age-related news from the Toyko Olympics: ……First place in the competition to open a new bubble-wrapped kitchen utensil was won by an obscene-spouting 80-year-old using an …
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Kickass and Accordion Players Shot
Janet Spinas Dancer, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to boost the keeper’s spirits after he—the keeper got the news that an accordion player was shot in the back at a Louisiana music festival last week. The bullet lodged in the zydeco musician’s ribs and did not kill …
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