Attribution: Photo byĀ Towfiqu barbhuiyaĀ onĀ Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that under the heading of āgifts-that-keep-on-givingā is the chest cold that Phyllis gave the keeper about three weeks ago and which has settled in as a cough that promises to stay with him on into his next life when …
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Kickass and 2024 Tomorrow
Attribution: Kvasir at English Wikipedia,Ā CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in realizing that there are only two days left to make something of 2023 before 2024 comes barreling onto the scene like the Dalton gang. Since its inception 363 days ago, it has been the …
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Kickass Endorses Dumbness
Attribution: Shakib khan,Ā CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in suggesting that those days between Christmas and New Years take on the official designation of āDumb daysā when dumbness is celebrated collectively and personally as befits its global prominence. An exchange of dumbness as in the …
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Kickass Goes North
Attribution: Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have returned from their attempt to travel to the North Pole, after getting only as far as Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield where they were hosted by Phyllisās family members, four dogs and several cats. Two small boysāMaverick …
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Kickass Goes Shopping
Attribution: Musyajackson,Ā CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be doing his Christmas shopping today, since everyone else obviously did theirs yesterday. In what can only be defined as a total lack of judgement, the keeper planned a brief shopping stop yesterday afternoon and was …
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Kickass and White Christmas
Attribution: Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada,Ā CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accepts the keeperās assessment that a gray or a brown Christmas is as good as a white one, except as it comes to singing about it in the mode of Bing Crosby. (Who is Bing Crosby?, you …
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Kickass and Polar Plunge
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper using his chest cold to excuse his not participating in the āpolar plungeā that has become part of the Winter Solstice celebration in his former Mazomanie neighborhood. As the big bonfire blazes, it has been the custom for celebrants to jump …
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Kickass and Shortest Day
Attribution: Photo byĀ Kacper SzczechlaĀ onĀ Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, suggests to the keeper that on this shortest day of the year, even though he has lived for some 33,680 days of varying lengths and loved every one of them, he might follow suit and post one of the shortest Kickass messages of the year: MERRY CHRISTMASĀ Ā to …
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Kickass and a Gift of a Cold
Attribution: NIAID,Ā CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cannot help but admire the way the keeper and Phyllis dealt with the Christmas gift exchange issue by sharing a common cold. It was apparently Phyllisās idea as she shopped around until she found a cold that suited her and after …
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Kickass and Santa Assignments
Attribution: John Malmin,Ā CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper on this pre-Christmas day as he–the keeper, speculates on just what crazy assignment the late State Journal city editor Glenn Miller might have hatched up were holiday things in place as they were back in Madison in the 1960ās. Once …
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Kickass and Willie’s Birthday
Attribution: Robbiework,Ā CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in watching the parade of old country music stars celebrate Willie Nelsonās 90th birthday on Sunday night TV, and proclaimed the time well spent considering the age group involved and alternative entertainment options. As a symbol of …
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Kickass and Roger’s Dream
Attribution: Robert William BussĀ , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in asking, what are friends for if not to admire and envy, and such was the case with him and Phyllis in a post dinner conversation with Sandra and Roger about dreams and dreaming in which …
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