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With Munguin’s thanks to Andi, TM and Brenda.
Munguin informs me that we’ve now posted every day for the last 104 days and he has said that I can have my annual holidays now as I’m looking rather jaded.
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Holidays? As in plural?
Munguin’s generosity never fails to amaze.
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In fairness as Munguin’s idea of a holiday (for me) is a couple of hour’s break, I think holidayS is most appropriate.
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Have a good holiday, Tris: well earned!
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:). Thanks, Andi. Not proper holiday though. Munguin doesn’t pay enough for that!!!
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A holiday? With Valentines Day coming up
Aye, right!
Up tae nae good, I reckon.
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That’s coz you have a mind like a sink, Jake.
I’ll pass the time doing some mind improving reading!!!
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You will, will ye?
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Ummmm…. erm… course I will…
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Thanks for the laughs Tris, always cheers me up, though sad toon about Syria. Millions of people are homeless because of the earthquake, it’s terrible.
I haven’t used real money in ages, quite glad really, not to see heads on the coins, that mr.30p one could give you serious nightmares. I do have a bag of coins, almost too heavy to carry. I can’t quite fathom why it’s been sitting on the hallway floor under a chair, for yonks. For a rainy day lol?
Have a great holidays, a well earned rest. See you when you return. 🙂
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I’m the same, Hetty.
I found bags of coins the other day and took them to the bank, because I’ll never use them otherwise.
I’m not going anywhere. Just a few days’ break.
I have some more jokes to put up, so I’ll probably do that tonight.
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Ah yes good idea…but, we don’t have a bank nearby anymore…I could take my trolley lol into town though.
I have some pics for AOY’s for you, when I get round to putting on computer and sending to you…have a good few days ‘break’. 🙂
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Same, Hetty. There used to be two banks here. They are both closed now.
Nearest one to me is in the town centre.
Still they need to save money to pay all those big bonuses to their senior staff.
I see that, although the interest rates went up again, the banks don’t seem to be paying out any more on savings.
Just email me them, Hetty. trispricewilliams@yahoo.com
Thanks.
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OT…..but of vast importance…… 🙂
Reuters: Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl LVII
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/eagles-lead-chiefs-24-14-halftime-super-bowl-2023-02-13/
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I discovered that in the middle of the night, Danny.
It was a close thing, but top marks to the lad who injured his ankle but played on.
I hope he’s not damaged it.
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Yes Tris, it was a close game. I thought that the Super Bowl playoff run might be lost for the Chiefs three games ago when Patrick Mahomes (#15 in the picture)……the superstar quarterback of the Chiefs (and of the entire National Football League)……badly sprained his ankle. He was still hobbling badly during some of yesterday’s game, but pressed on to a hard-fought win.
He has the off-season now to recover. With the ten-year, $450 Million contract he signed with the Chiefs a couple of years ago, he can afford whatever help he needs. 😉 The NFL does reimburse its star players well.
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I’ve read that they get well paid, Danny.
Funny, isn’t it, that entertainers and sports people are worth so much more than doctors, nurses, and other people who save our lives.
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Tris……Yes, show biz and pro sports are probably not really the best allocation of resources. 🙂
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Certainly not a lot of use to you when you just broke your leg, or your house is on fire, or you just be robbed.
Still, as Mrs Thatcher said,’ you can’t buck the market’.
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Yep! In a REALLY big money business like major league professional sports, the money gets spread around. Probably better that a lot of it goes to the players rather than to the billionaires who own major league sports teams.
The guy in this video is one of the Chiefs’ pass receivers……a guy who CATCHES the forward passes that Patrick Mahomes throws. He’s really good at it, and signed onto the team for a one year, one million dollar contract with bonuses. Small money compared to what a top quarterback like Mahomes receives. In the video in this article, he learns that he just made ANOTHER million dollars, thanks to a winning Super Bowl incentive bonus that his business agent apparently hadn’t mentioned to him. 🙂 (The sort of bonus that teams don’t have to pay out very often, since playing in a Super Bowl is rare for a team (only two teams out of 32 every year……of which only one is a winner.)
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2023-chiefs-juju-smith-schuster-finds-out-hes-earned-1m-bonus-during-postgame-interview/
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Ha ha ha… He seemed quite cool about it…
Can you imagine, if Munguin gave me a bonus of €10 … I’d be running around the Towers like a mad thing…
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I’m thinking that Munguin doesn’t hand out bonuses of any size very often…..LOL.
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That, Sir, is the understatement of the year… nay, decade… maybe even century!
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LOL!
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PS Tris: By all accounts, Patrick Mahomes is a class act as superstar football quarterbacks go. Goes around and congratulates every player……even second stringers and lots of the training staff……after a big win.
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Spectacularly good leadership behaviour, Danny.
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There’s a lot of guys involved in that win… And Jeez they all all built like brick outhouses.
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Yes, even the quarterbacks are big when compared with the size of normal people, but the offensive linemen (whose job is to protect the quarterback) are absolutely gigantic. Football players in general average well over 6 ft tall, with an average weight of about 250 lbs. But the average weight of offensive linemen is well over 300 lbs.
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EEEEK
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🙂
One of the opposing team in the divisional round of the Super Bowl elimination tournament tackled and fell on Mahomes two games ago. That’s why he’s still limping from a sprain.
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Nice to know how they knew the balloon was Chinese. 🙂
Marjorie Taylor Greene in the halls of the US Capitol:
Happy holiday to Tris.
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Ahhh, the things that Taylor Greene knows would probably fill a whole…. ummm thimble.
I wonder how much the polar bear suit and the balloon cost. $20 billion?
Idiot woman.
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Twenty Billion sounds about right. 🙂 Dressed in her polar bear suit, I guess they wouldn’t let her bring her white balloon to the State of the Union address.
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The people who lost their minds over Obama’s tan suit seem to accept that she was walking around at work looking like she’s off to a fancy dress party, or tick or treat session.
Odd, eh?
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Absolutely! Anything to get attention in the MAGA GOP! A clown show!
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Haha though it took me too long to get the panda one. For shame. Anyway a German woman warned about this sort of thing forty years ago.
Yes that is the German version but there are English subtitles! Maybe the Chinese are big Nena fans?
Congrats to the Kansas City (not in Kansas) Chiefs.
And have a good holiday to Tris – see you on Sunday? If not this Sunday then the next? Anyone would think I’m a Soppy Sunday fan 🙂
Okay here’s the English version
40 years ago – I feel old now…
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Always liked this song. First heard it at a Norwegian friends house back in the mid 80s
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panda paws……Thanks from Kansas City (not in Kansas) for congrats on the Super Bowl victory. It’s customary for the winning Super Bowl team to be invited to the White House to meet the president. So now we’ll see what state the White House invitation is addressed to. 🙂
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Probably Joe knows the difference … at least he will if he reads Munguin’s Republic which, of course, any sensible leader is bound to do. 🙂
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Tris….Yes, no doubt Joe has good sensible Munguin’s Republic readers on his staff. 🙂
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There’s more balloons to come?
Not another one… as someone once said.
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This has the advantage of being a bit funny but with a cute cat.
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That was a laugh out loud.
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Re No. 2 you won’t catch me in Tesco, or for that matter M & S either, after their 2014 pronouncements.
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Asda did it too. Remember with Lamont.
And Sainsbury are so anti- European.
Thank goodness for Aldi who seem to be smart enough to keep their noses out of politics.
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Good selection of mirth today.
In regards to holidays, you can have the 29th February off, this year only.
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I think that’s a bit harsh Marcia. I’d be prepared to give him 3 out of every 4 29th Februarys off…
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Jeeez…
know which three it would be too!
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LOL. Are you Mungin’s new HR Officer?
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It sounds like a directive from on high.
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Enjoy your break…..
🙂
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🙂 I have some more jokes to share that were sent in, so there will be more tonight. 🙂
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Enjoy your holiday
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🙂 Thanks Tatu.
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