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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 22d

Nothing could honor the memory of Alfred Nobel more than letting folks know what everyone else will say about them when they pass away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_P...

There is a popular story about how, in 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The Merchant of Death Is Dead", in a French newspaper.
It was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died; the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered.
This inspired him to change his will.
Historians have been unable to verify this story and some dismiss the story as a myth.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1h

It’s impossible… if your body isn’t incorruptible.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1h

Had some good times in Titonka!

Dick Dale (the surf guitarist) was fun. It was the second stop on his tour and his bassist and drummer were new, but good. DD had no set list and they had to follow along to whatever he did. DD was learning trumpet, so they had to do “When the Saints Go Marching In”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2h

Some years ago, I went up to Clear Lake to see Dick Dale (the surf guitarist) at the Surf Ballroom. When I talked with folks up there, there was some confusion, because they were thinking about Dick Dale (the Lawrence Welk singer), who had retired to his hometown Algona about 45 miles west of there.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2h

Can’t be worse than Amtrak through Connecticut.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 5h

“Do you know how much Obama gets paid for Obamacare? I hear it’s *a lot*. I plan to replace it with Trumpcare. For a lot less money than what you’re paying Obama for Obamacare, you can have healthcare provided by the people responsible for Trump Casino, Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Shuttle”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 7h

Just like he looks at Hitler charging the German government for the use of his likeness on stamps and thinks, that’s a great idea, why can’t I have that sort of deal with the U.S. Mint?

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 7h

Donald thinks Obama is getting a cut of all the Obamacare money and thinks it would be a lot better if he got that cut instead.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 8h

And my favorite, Tripoli

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 8h

Nevada

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 8h

Madrid

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone knows that Mexican culture punches above its weight class. youtu.be/oL33I39nlV0

YuMex - Yugoslav Mexico

YouTube video by Miha Mazzini

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 11h

Beats the hell out of sitting on the Mexican border in the middle of nowhere I tell you whut.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 11h

The TNG folks already have tickets to the Blackhawks-Canadiens game and are applying for asylum.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 12h

What Would Rocky Do

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 13h

Wow, the FBI coming into the President Elect’s residence to help protect him from obvious lunatics like Sen. Hagerty

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is adjusting his sunglasses

Alt: Edward "Ed" R. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones) flipping up his sunglasses in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off (1986)

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

And now she’s talking about the difference between “beach and urban” environments, and how Huntington Beach should be careful of the urban people from Long Beach.

I got a warning from Pat Burns for calling out “that’s racist.”

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Extra innings, tired pitchers, and five games

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Mariners vs. Pilots

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Start them on the deep dish first

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Trespassing and disrupting official proceedings too, good to knoW.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe take a suitably sized piece of paper with you to your next meeting and ask for his autograph?

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t worry, Pam, I’m sure Donald will remember to pardon you at the beginning of his next term.

Remember, memory, something something something. *taps desk*

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Or El Christerino if you aren’t into the brevity sort of thing

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

The new legal analysis is that the Rs don’t have to care if a bunch of registered voters don’t get paid for a month or more because of R shenanigans.

That new legal analysis will likely go about as well as all the other legal analysis put out by the White House nowadays.

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