> George,

 >  GP> In general, here you must have your mask on when entering any public
 >  GP> building (including restaurants); once at your booth, 
you'reconsidered
 >  GP> in more private territory (as in bathrooms--haven't heard of Bathroom
 >  GP> Patrols yet))

 >   I think of the cartoon from Gary Larsen's "The Far Side" comic strip
 > years ago. This guy is coming out of a restaurant bathroom...and suddenly,
 > the lights flash, the siren goes off, and the speaker shouts with the
 > sign "DIDN'T WASH HANDS!!". 

That may be coming; I'd like to see a crotch-height fisdt ram out into guys
who delibertey pee o the floor st the urinals (I can't get shoes that fit, so
I'm in sock feet when I'm out -- not fun to stand in a puddle of pee & then
know the bacteria/etc are breeding betwixt my toes until I get home & can 
wash them. . . :( 

I saw a guy, once, standing two feet back, aimming straight down, creating
quite the bounce-up on the floor; I felt like wheeling up behind him & using
my size 13 to ram him into the urinal!

Seesm a few guys standig way back & arcing it into the urinal (seems they 
have no conxcept of what happens as you finish your stream & where that'll 
go)

One lady at the grocery store's single roomn cusatomer bathroom obviously
squatted o the seat & xcovered it in yellow liquid, as I'd waited long enough
she did use the facilitiers & couldn't say she took one look at what someone
ELSE did, & left without sitting.  Middle aged, so "old enough to know
better," I'd say. . .

 >   The place where I used to live (H.U.D. subsidized housing for the
 > disabled), had to require a key to access the restrooms...as several
 > folks who weren't residents there, were using them as "love nests" (there
 > were used condoms, etc. on the floor).

At my work when it was in person, downtown, in a heritage buildig, they had
the one accessible washroom on the first floor.  I waited a long time, to see
a young dissheveled couple come out, apologize sheepishly; I did my "smells
like something crawled up & DIED" routine, & exited, only to see them headed
for it again, giggling; I didn't wait to see their non-romantic reaction to
following my performance., but I pictured it & guffawed, inside all day. . .

 >  GP> At home & in your car alone, of course you don't need to wear it by 
any
 >  GP> standards.

 >   To me, doing that, is overkill.

Some yowns sday you must & uit's an obvius cash grab only, not a health
concern. People who are wearting a mask in their car, I presume are just
saving time by keeping iton for their next indoor destination, &/or 
preventing germs landing on car surfaces of a car that aged 70+ Grandpa also
uses.

 >  GP> But elsewhere, you could come in contact with the virus & the mask
 >  GP> provides some (1-2%) protection for you & 95% for others, in case
 >  GP> you've got it & are asymptomatic.

 >   I treat the shot like an injection I've had for other things...such as
 > the flu, tetanus, shingles, and now COVID-19. If I were to come down with
 > the illness, it should be "less" than what I would've had otherwise. There
 > is no guarantee that you will NOT get the illness, even if getting the 
shot.
 > Of course, with all my medical conditions, the saying "they shoot horses,
 > don't they??" comes to mind. 

You're one of the rare few who actually reads up & understands what's going 
on -- most especially rare in your country, sadly. . .

I happened to mention, in earshot of an iPhone that Iif the timie for me to
get to front of the vaccine line was going to take so long (9 months at the
time) I'll just skip it altogether.

Next day, a nurse calls me offering to come to m home to give me the shot. I
asked if I can be gusranteed not to ge the Astrozeneca; se said no, so I said
no.

Last week I mentioned in room with same iPhones that I'll take the shot, but
only if I get the P[fizr one.  Next day I get a call saying I could be
giaranteed the Pfizr one ifg I wanted it; they're coming Monday to jab me.

The fax they are listening to me & so eager to poke me scares my wife & me
somewhat, but. . .eventially not having it will close employment doors to me,
so might as well conform, I guess. . .

If it offs me, you'll know I was aware & only took what I reasonably thought
was the best option, to keep others safe. & that someone went out of their 
way to listen in & find out what would get me to conform.

 >  GP> Of course; but when you want to go for Uber Eats, that's what I've
 >  GP> found most helpful.

 >   I may try it this week...had other errands to do, and I already had 
plans
 > to eat out. But, since I'll be home for a few days, I'll either make my 
own,
 > or call out for it. I'll have to see if they have a better choice than 
what
 > I initially saw.

Of all our delivery apps, Uber has the biggest selection; they must give the
better deal to the restaurants.

Since discovering a fave food court restaurant(Bourbon Street Grill) is on
Uber, my fam & I been ordering it regularly. For $15 each, it's enough food
for 2-3 meals, mostly meat!

 >  GP> & not by happenstance (bad weather wrecking the wheat crops so 
burgers
 >  GP> go up, or the Arabs go to war again, increasing fuel costs for
 >  GP> delivering everything, including your groceries & restaurants'
 >  GP> ingredients); it's all artificial & deliberate; milking us to within
 >  GP> an inch of our ability to live.

 >   Yep. All that corn going to waste on ethanol...when we could be feeding
 > a bunch of folks...even though I can't really eat that anymore, due to
 > digestive tract issues.  

Consider, too, that the ethanol helps get the food you can/do want to you &
cheaper, too.

Thge one that gets me ois how fruit & milk(& others) farmers deliberately
destroy(bulldozing it under) at least 20% of their crops just to keep prices
higher. . .Grrr. . .

 >  >   If you smoke during sex, you're doing it too fast. 

 >  GP> I've been fast, I've been slow, but never smoked during sex; melted a
 >  GP> condom or two to bits, though, in my younger days. (everything good &
 >  GP> nominally immoral I enjoyed in my  younger days)

 >   Nowadays, it's like ventriloquist Jeff Dunham and Walter, telling Jeff
 > about what "Safe Sex" between Walter and his wife consists of. He said 
 > "she screams 'Screw You', and I yell 'Bite Me'" . Walter also said that
 > the "noises are a bit pornographic"...but they were "Get Off!!" or "I 
can't
 > see The Weather Channel". 

I love the Dunham Bunch! Especially Walter & Achmed!

 >  GP> Looking back at the political news from you country the past few
 >  GP> decades, I think so! & I think Bill Clinton was a Vice President (not
 >  GP> Vice-President)

 >   Whether one likes or loathes him, the Presidential Library has done 
quite
 > a bit for tourism in the River Market District in the downtown area, which
 > is separated by the Arkansas River...between Little Rock and North Little
 > Rock (it was originally known as Argenta). In fact, the Clinton School Of
 > Public Service is in the former Rock Island Railroad Passenger Depot...and
 > the former railroad bridge is now a pedestrian bridge over the Arkansas
 > River.

Not sure I'll ever visit LR, AK, as I heard it's against the law to
mispronounce the state name there (I like to say ar-Kansas too much)

Reminds me of a joke I heard on a Xaviara Hollandar record back in the '80s:

Southern Guy: You see that tattoo on my thing that says L.I.T.T.L.E.? When I
get happy, it spells out "Little Rock Arkansas, United Stastes of America!"

 >  GP> Some say he was the first black president:
 >  GP> 1) he lived in government housinig
 >  GP> 2) he received agovernment cheque each month
 >  GP> 3) he played the saxaphone
 >  GP> 4) he liked chubby white girls (bony Linda notwithstanding)

 >   In a word, really.

That's whjat I heard; no idea from whom.

 >  >   Egg-citing story.

 >  GP> Trying to get your funny side up. . .

 >   Better than poaching in on the subject with yolks. 

White you were thinking that one up, I had scramble & do some errands. . .

 >  GP> Trump's a good shit in the long run (but who wants long runny shit?)

 >   Everyone has to sit on the toilet sooner or later. :P

Some sitting sessions are superir or inferior to others. . .

 >   But, the S word actually is an acronym for "So Happy It's Thursday". 

I heard it was a nun saying "T.G.I.F.!" to the grumpy executive in the
elevator; he replied with "S.H.I.T.!"

She repeated her greeting 3 more times, with him replying the same each.

Finally she said, in a perturbed, sad, tone, "T.G.I.F., you know 'thank God
it's Friday'"

He replies, "I know, & I replied S.H.I.T.-- 'sorry, honey, it's Thursday."

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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