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[AndyinPA]

Haven't played that in years, but I played it a lot as a kid.

[raison de arizona]

We had a croquet set growing up, did a lot of playing. Now it just makes me think of the movie Heathers.

[sugar magnolia]

My girlfriend makes assemblage dogs out of old metal skates and croquet mallets and sells them for a couple of hundred dollars. She sells them faster than she can make them.

[p0rtia]

My girlfriend makes assemblage dogs out of old metal skates and croquet mallets and sells them for a couple of hundred dollars. She sells them faster than she can make them.
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Pictures, please! So cool.

[sugar magnolia]

My girlfriend makes assemblage dogs out of old metal skates and croquet mallets and sells them for a couple of hundred dollars. She sells them faster than she can make them.
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Pictures, please! So cool.

[p0rtia]

Thanks! Love it!

What are the ears made of?

[northland10]

Thanks! Love it!

What are the ears made of?

Are those old license plates?

I remember using old ones in the garden but I forget the purpose. In the old days of constantly changing plates (and Michigan still had 2 back then), we had a supply of extra plates.

[bill_g]

That does it. I'm only using handcrafted organic sudoku puzzles from now on!

Do your puzzlecrafters live in Oregon or Vermont?

Japan I think. Nikoli. Besides lots of Scotch tape, ballpoint pens, and other insundry office supplies, Mrs bequeathed me with an awesome pile of Sudoku magazines. Most are the common grocery checkout type from PennyPress printed on low quality newspaper that requires the lightest touch with a pencil, or you'll tear the page. She also found some printed on glossy bond like most glamor and news mags that don't take a pencil or pen very well at all.

Then she found a few that are on Goldilocks paper - just right. Matte finish that doesn't reflect the overhead light glare. Medium weight paper that endures erasers, takes pencils well, and doesn't leak pens. Staple bound for easy page fold over. Multiple puzzles per page. And challenging enough to offer hours to days of solving. They claim to be handcrafted with an eye towards beauty as well as function.

I think they are right.

[Foggy]

Happy , peeps.

[Lani]

Happy , peeps.

Thanks!

[Maybenaut]

Happy , peeps.

Peeps are for Easter.

[sugar magnolia]

Thanks! Love it!

What are the ears made of?

License plates. The heads are old shoe forms, tails are springs and the leather straps from the skates, noses are wooden knobs, eyes are washers and bottle caps, and she uses a bunch of random stuff, too.

She bought about 500 of the wooden shoe forms from a defunct shoe factory several years ago and has already run out of them.

[sugar magnolia]

and other insundry office supplies,

What are insundry office supplies?

[bill_g]

and other insundry office supplies,

What are insundry office supplies?

Filing cabinets filled with so much stuff, you don't know where to begin. Who knew that packs of ball point pens could dry out?

[sugar magnolia]

and other insundry office supplies,

What are insundry office supplies?

Filing cabinets filled with so much stuff, you don't know where to begin. Who knew that packs of ball point pens could dry out?

Never heard the word insundry. Neither has the dictionary.

[bill_g]

Never heard the word insundry. Neither has the dictionary.

Welcome to idioms.

[pipistrelle]

Never heard the word insundry. Neither has the dictionary.

Welcome to idioms.

insundry vs and sundry : Common Errors in English

insundry or and sundry

“Sundry” means “various” in modern English, so strictly speaking expressions like “various and sundry” and “all and sundry” are redundant; but many redundant expressions are standard in English, as are these. “Sundry” used to mean “different from each,” which explains why the expressions weren’t redundant when they first evolved. They were a little like “each and every”: each single individual and all of them collectively.The fact that “and sundry” now doesn’t really add anything except a rhetorical flourish to the expression may help to explain why some folks mishear this phrase as “insundry.”

[bill_g]

God bless the English language!

[Sam the Centipede]

God bless the English language!

He did! Ask most RWNJs – God loved the language so much that he wrote his Bible in English!

[AndyinPA]

[raison de arizona]

https://x.com/TheWeightSaint/status/176 ... 34253?s=20

I have some news to tell you. Please don’t be sad. I am ….dying. Oh I can see your faces now. The truth is we all are dying. Every day we live we are getting closer to our death.

Why am I telling you this?

Because I want you to enjoy your life to the fullest every single day. Get up in the morning and look at the sky… count your blessings and enjoy.

[raison de arizona]

sorry/not sorry, RBG leadership award ceremony canceled.

[pipistrelle]

Those clowns are what they consider deserving? Out of a vast pool that’s what they came up with?

[Sam the Centipede]

Those clowns are what they consider deserving? Out of a vast pool that’s what they came up with?

The shortlist was Martha Stewart (woman, yes, also imprisoned fraudster), Elon Musk (prize asshole noted for his complete lack of leadership skills), Rupert Murdoch (promoter of lies and destruction of civil society), Michael Milken (how many imprisoned fraudsters do you need on a shortlist?), and Sylvester Stallone (what has he ever led?).

Stallone is the odd one out simply because he is the closest to an acceptable law-abiding person. The others are obnoxious or criminal right-wing scum.

Bullying is the leadership technique of those listed. Not to be rewarded.

I don't know anything about the Opperman Foundation but they have a very nasty infestation of Trumpism.

[pipistrelle]

Their EQUALITY in all caps speaks to their professionalism (lacking), and the emphasis on choosing men (EQUALITY) is itself political. The whole thing reeks of butt hurt.

And Musk is known on twitter for championing anti-Semitic and racist tropes.

I bet they had a giggle over this pool getting an RBG award (apologies to Stallone, who is the oddball for not being bottom of the barrel). Any of us could name a more appropriate group off the top of our heads.