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Mite Be Funny #98 – Extended Multi-Panel New Year’s Resolution Edition
Author: Jim Flanigan
Football Frenzy
My fantasy football season was a disaster this year. My excuse is that I was so distracted by the mid-term elections and the need to elect a Democratic Congress, that my early season effort and concentration suffered. Thanks Obama, for not running for a third term. But I have enjoyed the resurgence of the Chicago Bears as they won the NFC North this season.
I get all choked up about it as I type this as will Bears fans that read this.
Or maybe it was just a pork chop. I don’t know. I do know I never expected the Bears to be this good. To amuse myself during the football season in case the Bears have a bad team, I play other football games like Pick ‘Em games where you just try and pick the winners of each game each week. I normally do okay in those games, and I usually just hope to win a weekly prize. My dreams got a little bigger this last week of the football regular season. Take a look at these standings.
I Crossed the Pizza Gods Once Again & Lived to Blog About It
When last we left my discount pizza shopping, the pizza gods had taken great delight in smiting me. I got smote or smited or smitten or something bad. The pear plus blue cheese combination I bought on clearance just did not work. Maybe simply for the sake of blogging, I went back to the well once again and purchased this discounted bargain bin offering.
I know it says ‘flatbread,’ but we covered that in the first blog post. It’s pizza. Looks okay, but take a closer look at those ingredients.
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Is That a Computer in my Pocket?
As we cleaned in preparation for some holiday entertaining, I stumbled across this old phone.
I think that has to be my all-time favorite phone. Not because it was such a great phone, but because it did this …
I Missed Another Blogging Milestone
I don’t know how it happened. I was watching the number of followers of this blog slowly rise from almost nobody to a few misguided souls seeking succor and comfort from my words. And if that is what you seek from this blog, boy, did you come to the wrong place.
Despite my vigilance, I missed the addition of a follower that helped us reach the … get ready for this … dizzying amount of a quarter of a thousand followers. That’s right, despite my best efforts at worst writing, almost zero promotion (I’m not counting that scathing review of this blog in the Crabtree Corners Courier last summer), and a complete lack of continuity or theme to this blog, we now have well over ten times the number of blog followers as attendees at a Steve Bannon Holiday Inn campaign stop in Kansas to promote Steve Watkins for Congress.
Now that I have a quarter of 1,000 (whoa, check out all those zeroes!) followers, it almost makes me want to try harder. Nah. But there is a potential windfall coming up in less than a week for one lucky follower.
I Didn’t Think This Christmas Gift Through
In retrospect, giving a black hoodie to a 22 year old African-American male relative of mine as a Christmas present may have been a bad idea in today’s USA. Gift receipt to the rescue!
Trump’s Marley Moment
I think Donald Trump may be due for a “Marley moment” this Christmas Eve, and I’m talking about Jacob Marley, not Bob Marley, although a Bob Marley moment might do Trump some good, too.
I saw this pic and can definitely see the Jacob Marley moment coming.
Don’t notice anything unusual other than a reality show host and huckster of crappy products from bankrupt companies sitting in the Oval Office? Take a closer look …
Mite Be Funny #97 – Merry Christmas Edition
Heeling Power
As I walk our dog, I try and teach her to heel with a corrective tug on the leash as I say, “Heel.”
After I do that, I swear that I hear our dog mutter under her breath, “Just walk faster, idiot.”
The End of Fantasy
All football season long, I have been tweaking my Trump-loving relatives that I play with in my family’s fantasy football league by choosing anti-Trump names for the team. Last week, my team name was the Gang of Puppets.
I still go back and forth as to whether I should have named the team Gang of Putin. Oh well, both work.
I wanted to finish off the season with a good name and logo. I considered The Indictables or The Indictmentals using a Roger Stone pic as the team logo.
That is one goofy looking head. I think it is a done deal that a Roger Stone indictment is imminent. But I had already featured Stone as a team logo, or at least his Dick Nixon back tattoo.
I skipped another Stone team name and logo. I have tried to make my team names and logos topical. Trending in the news now is this pic …
Yesterday Was Really Short
The Winter Equinox yesterday was a really short day. How short was it you ask?
It was so short that the 10PM news came on at 7:30.
Relationship Tip #47
Never tell a woman that she burps as good as she looks.
Trump Twitter Test
My wife does not use Twitter. My wife does not like Donald Trump. She seemed to me to be the perfect person to try my first Trump Twitter Test.
I refuse to follow Donald Trump on Twitter or anywhere else, but I do check in on him from time to time. I do follow a Donald Trump parody account that amuses me to no end.
So the test I prepared was to present my wife a parody Trump tweet and a real Trump tweet to see if she could identify parody vs. real. Would you like to play, too?
I have prepared the 2 tweets so they present very similarly. Ready? Here’s #1.
Here’s #2.
Flies On Washington Walls #136
A Holiday Edition of … Am I a Bad Guy?
I posted his holiday meme over 3 years ago. I created the meme myself. I find it really funny. Many do not. Many were offended by it. The odds are that it will offend you. I even got death threats, although they were all from my wife. Am I a bad guy for liking it?
Trump to End Elf on the Shelf in USA?
Here is a Christmas post from 2016, still quite timely, and updated for 2018.
The Elf on the Shelf appears to be in danger of disappearing from the USA by Christmas 2018.
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Ice Would Be Nice
I was concerned that my ice skates are broken. My skates wouldn’t work properly when I tried them at this neighborhood ice rink by my house.
I didn’t notice the “CLOSED” sign at the bottom of the sign. No wonder my ice skates didn’t work!
Is Trump Right About Fake News?
I’m confused, which everyone who has ever read this blog already knows. I think Donald Trump is correct when he complains about ‘Fake News.’ I am starting to believe it exists.
Take this video from Judge Jeanine Pirro from Fox News on Michael Flynn. You may want to skip to the very end where Pirro suggests that Judge Sullivan could throw out Flynn’s guilty plea.
Did you watch the whole video? Did you throw up in your mouth just a bit in parts like I did? Understandable. This “judge throws out Flynn’s guilty plea due to FBI wrongdoing” narrative had been pushed by Fox News and White House talking heads for a while. Instead, Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Reagan appointee, excoriated Flynn in a blistering diatribe to the point of dropping the treason bomb as a possible additional charge. Oops.
And what about the Clinton Foundation?
Bald-Faced Truth
We have a beautiful dog.
She’s got some issues. One issue is that she scratches and bites herself … A LOT! It could be from mites, allergies (Mite Be Allergic), the environment, hormones, etc. In other words, our vet has no idea. She actually has some bald spots now. I feel for her as I do, too. My wife is making me very uncomfortable with all her talk about how bad the bald spots on the dog look. It is hitting too close to home. Sure, I don’t scratch and bite my hair out, but still, I’m a bit touchy.
And then I saw White House Nazi Stephen Miller on Face The Nation this past Sunday morning. He is a known baldy, but he looked very different this time. Take a look. Before is on the left and Face The Nation Stephen Miller is on the right.
Christmas Craptacular
I spotted this house decorated for Christmas close to my daughter’s apartment at college.
It kind of looks like migrant Christmas displays behind the fence at an ICE facility. I drove my daughter past for even more views.
Jim Flanigan Looks at the World 