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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 1h

When I was in the Corps, I spent a month in the Philippines, which is home to some of the best tattoo artists on earth. I knew some guys who came back seriously illustrated. Somehow, none of them managed to have Nazi ink.

Of course, this was 1991, and Nazis were still universally bad guys then.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2h

Filming what he originally wrote would have cost the equivalent of the GDP of a small European country, especially in a time when CGI existed only in Tron.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 1d

My physics professor had a prop for every concept on the syllabus.

Understanding motion equations is a hell of a lot easier if you see them demonstrated in front of you.

If Dr. Keller wasn't the best professor I ever had, he was in the top two.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

Are the winter meetings that little bit of food the male penguins store to give to the chicks when the female penguins are out hunting fish?

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 3d

Slab culture?

Well, now there's another research hole I've gotta go down.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 3d

Is the owner channeling Messala from Ben Hur?

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 3d

Every time I see a portrait of that guy, I'm reminded that they imported the entire family from Hanover.

Dude looks so German he should be wearing lederhosen 24/7.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 4d

I wasn't mocking them. I was making fun of the idea that No Kings protesters were members of Hamas.

Besides, I'm 54 and I was out there with them.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 4d

There were so many grandparents at No Kings in Largo, FL.

Not surprising, it is Florida.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 4d

That weird feeling I get when I realize the things I like are a little cringey.

Musicals
Phil Collins era Genesis
Protesting for democracy

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 5d

RE: point 2.

As Adam Neely says frequently about music, "Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes."

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 5d

I am by nature a morning person, but that always worked against me when I was younger. My friends wanted to shut down the bar, and I wanted to be asleep 3-4 hours earlier.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 6d

Apparently they do have defensive backs.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 6d

Dude would be American Keir Starmer, turned up to eleven.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 6d

Helps if you're involved enough to cut the cord.

I don't think Kennedy was ever even in the delivery room.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 6d

Part of the problem is that Frito-Lay found the best version of Doritos when they stumbled on Cool Ranch. This was their second flavor, and they've been chasing the dragon ever since.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 7d

I remember when George W. Bush's cocaine use was a youthful mistake he committed at the tender age of forty.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 7d

Why are they confessing?

They're not confessing, they're bragging.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 8d

I would hope that a Rome to Venice cruise would be good enough on its own. Who thinks a visit to the Coliseum would be improved by the presence of Scott Walker?

Maybe they will feed him to the lions...

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 9d

I had a high school friend who was in the front row of that video. When it premiered, I was like, "Holy shit, it's Grant!"

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

Well, it's essentially a conspiracy theory, and if you trace any given conspiracy theory it will inevitably end up in an antisemitic root.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

Doesn't that act involve four dimensional geometry?

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

My sister said you should never let a male tattoo artist ink a blade on you because he will inevitably draw his penis.

I never would have worried about a paw...until now.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 15d

I love that the Russo-Japanese War was essentially a preview of WWI, but nobody in Western Europe paid attention due to racial prejudice against the Japanese and utter contempt for the Russians.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 15d

Jay Gould famously said, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

I don't think even he thought the hired half would do it for an IOU.