ITS BREAKUP NIGHT

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BREAKUP NIGHT

it is said that this night is the most popular night of the year to breakup a relationship. of course it is a bad night to have a relationship breakup. the winter is just beginning, its cold, icy, snowy, and there are few daylight hours for the next couple of months. and yet more couples split or start splitting on this night.

why do i mention this? because it is an important college ritual.

for me it was the start of the end of two college dating relationships i had. one was when my date wound up sitting on my friend raymond's lap and she didn't understand why i was angry. the other was when another date on another new year's eve date was real happy when a married guy with wife present sorta' grabbed her and kissed her. i guess that they were flirting and i didn't need any additional problems in my life. both relationships went down the toilet soon after.

walking home alone (free, free, free at last) on a dump night a week later i felt elated in the very cold, clear january night with brilliant stars in the sky and the exhilarating cold air in my lungs i was really happy to be by myself with not a care in the world.


am i going to wish you a happy new year? no, you may have whatever kind of year you want. you're on your own.


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NEW YEARS EVE: WHAT IS IT AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?

fortunately i'll go to sleep tonight around 8 pm. no longer am i obligated to attend mind deadening parties dying slowly in my chair with other married zombies losing IQ points and brain cells and hearing quantities of old wives tales and other misinformation.

haven't figured out what we're supposed to be celebrating on new year's eve: the end of another disastrous year; the beginning of a new disastrous year; that we are still alive for no reason at all; that when we subtract our birth year we are a year older; that your unemployment benefits have run out; that we are with friends who would sell you out for a cold potato.

for young people there are other new years eve events: its a good night for breakups; for a more ...ummm... physical relationship; for a less physical relationship; looking forward to college graduation and the end of your good life.

and my favorite - for the media and financial news for next year; continue making up your own facts; telling lies repeatedly for lesser intellects to believe; distorting events for kickbacks and payoffs.

and for small business: continue not paying collected sales or other taxes; may next year be the end of paying anything for hired help. they should be happy for the rainbow.

lets hope we can accomplish all we desire.


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YES - BIG LOSER FOR PREZ.

sure looking forward for trump the loser being president. attacking hillary, bill, christie, new hampshire leader and its publisher is reminiscent of wwii germany attacking the u.s.a,. russia, england and others and then being surprised when they lost only a crazy guy and followers would do it..

actually he's a nyc street kid and should be treated as such.

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PET CAT FOUND

they found my grand daughter's cat in a shed behind a house up the street after four days. he apparently hadn't eaten anything. up to now, food has magically appeared in a clean, neat dish. he probably never thought that he should or could find or catch food -- huh?.

where was the food? where is my dish? i know it will show up. it always has. i don't know what's wrong. ooooh, there's a disgusting mouse that just ran by. isn't that bird pretty. where is my food? i don't need them. i can make it on my own even if its a little chilly except i don't know where my food is.

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REALLY GETTING TIRED OF THE LATEST NEW COMPUTERS AND LAPTOPS

every few minutes they try to sell you something.

"this is hal your laptop. i'm here to help you today.
you can purchase this handy salad flipper for only ......."

yes we can make america great again by restoring privacy and kicking out all hucksters both human and robotic. republican presidential contenders first.

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Friday, December 24, 2010

XMAS AND XMAS EVE

tonight (i guess) is the night baby jesus flies up your chimney to heaven. no, i think that's later. for some obscure reason children are showered with gifts tomorrow to celebrate this occasion. their parents who have toiled and sweated all year long to pay for these brats' presents will tell their undeserving spawn that they were delivered by a messenger of god. they will get a lot of masochistic satisfaction as their progeny are contemptuous of the whole event.

tomorrow afternoon will be the big final celebration dinner filled with alcoholic beverages, salty, fatty, and sweet foods. the then fulfilled parents, like salmon at the end of their run, will grab their chests, and fall head first into the dessert.

have a happy parturition, procreation, fertility day.

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the xmas story seems to revolve around a couple named mary and joseph in bethlehem in territory that has currently been taken over by the palestinians. mary, pregnant from some unknown source (as she told her husband) is about to give birth but no palestinians step forward to be of any assistance. as usual (if they are there at all) they have their hands out but contribute nothing - maybe just trouble.

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WHAT I LEARNED WHILE LIVING IN (UGH) NEW JERSEY

the german bund is alive and well in northern new jersey. if you are black, italian, jewish, muslim, et al. stay out of sussex county.

only straight laced people seem to be in northern new jersey until they are tested at the officers' club bar.

if your husband gets a job in nyc and has a cute secretary, he will leave one morning and never come back.

stone walls that weep are miracles of god. the media censors the news of miracles.

officer's wives are drunks.

prayer helps at least 10%. whatever that means.

gossips and the ignorant are just as flawed among engineers, scientists, teachers, and other professionals as among uneducated new arrivals from eastern, western, and southern europe.

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. prefer to leave it.

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CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE

i must have slipped into an alternative universe, or my wardrobe sucked me into narnia or did i go through the looking glass. at any rate somehow the phrase corporations are people keeps pounding in my head. this is most bizarre and surreal. i wonder how this could have happened?

corporations are people...corporations are people...corporations are people...

i must have hit my head because this would be ridiculous. concussions and also old age cause delusions.

somehow in this time warp anomaly the supreme court must have had something to do with this and they did. y'know the supreme court is made up of old people and i wonder how reality based they are.

in this realm soylent green is people. i guess i may have gotten into the movie somehow.

sooooo, both corporations and soylent green are people. of course.

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HOW THE HELL DID I GET THROUGH COLLEGE

RETRO DON'S POST -- ORIGINAL STUFF FROM DEC. 2013

TERM PAPER

i lay down in bed last night.

realizing that a term paper was due this morning i knew that i needed my computer, paper, and pen to prepare my hand written paper.

pondering this revelation, it occurred to me that i may be dreaming.

if i weren't dreaming what was the worst thing that could happen to an old man if i didn't do the paper?

then a miracle happened i awoke.


FINAL EXAMS

in addition to dreaming of term papers due the next morning i also dream of final exams that i have not prepared for. having gone through life on the wing and a prayer and really not prepared for anything, i have managed to survive. no wonder i have bad dreams about final exams and term papers.


MORE FINAL EXAM NIGHTMARES

final exam at 10 am today.

i don't remember that.

its in contracts.

can't remember the last time i attended class.yes, i remember now - i think.

i should have prepared.

i'm on campus now.

students and staff are walking this way and that. what building, and room is it in?

i'd better go over to the administration building and find out.

yikes, its 9:30 already.

pushing my way through crowds on the hill heading towards the building.

there's a sign on the door.

it says the admnistration building has been moved to the other campus.

i'm on the subway now heading towards the other campus.

no i'm not. this train is going into the borough of queens.

the train is now traveling above ground.

all that can be seen is the shrubbery along the countryside.

i'll get off at the next stop and crossover to the otherside to get back to the city.

at the next stop there is a bus waiting that goes into the bronx over the whitestone bridge.

the bus ia a local and makes many stops.

finally arriving at west farms square.

home at last.

seems that thats where i wanted to be in the first place.

MUST DO COLLEGE. HOW ELSE CAN I SURVIVE ?


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NEW AMERICA WITH ARM BANDS, SHIRTS, AND SYMBOLS

can't wait for the new administration. donald trump and daffy duck with the munchkin congress and they'll be singing:

Ha ha ha / Ho ho ho / And a couple of tra la las / That's how we laugh the day away / In the merry old land of the U S A.

wait. i may be in an alternate universe.

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RETRO DON'S POST:

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

IMPROVING LITERATURE

at three this morning i was thinking of blanche DuBois saying, " .... I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

always happy to help out fellow writers i submit the following as improvemrnts to Tennessee Williams line:

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of the internal revenue service."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of wall street stockbrokers."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of rotweilers."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of engineers."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of car dealers."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of subordinates."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of management."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of college boys."

" .... I have always depended on the kindness of boa constrictors and politicians."

to the writers of america: you are welcome.

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POOR JEB --- LEFT STANDING ALONE AT THE DANCE

just thinkin' of the jebster. he reminds me of the mythical guy who hangs around at the dance waiting to pick up the last remaining desperate woman. sometimes it probably works out.

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AMERICA CAN BE GREAT AGAIN, YEA

the republican party should put out a musical album saluting american greatness of yesteryear. suggestions
of items on the album are:

Brother Can You Spare A Dime? 1932 Rudy Vallee

Where Have All The Flowers Gone.. (1963) marlene dietrich

I'm forever blowing bubbles (1919) Burr & Campbell

When Johnny Comes Marching Home NANA MOUSKOURI

Green Fields of France by John McDermott

DANNY BOY' 1962 MAUREEN O'HARA

we'll meet again (british world war II song) Vera Lynn

Pennies From Heaven Sarah Vaughan

Erika - famous german marching song of WW2

On The Good Ship Lollipop Shirley Temple


and others ----

thanks to youtube for these references.

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THE INNOCENT AND NOT SO SMART INVESTORS

somehow many people today have been brainwashed to believe that you can always make money by buying stock (lol).

i think part of this is due to the belief that people think that the collapsing stock market is a liberal plot.

an army officer i know thinks its a badge of honor to lose money in the stock market like he just failed to wipe out an isis battalion but had to retreat bravely - sure yawn.

they are losing money on what they were told was a sure thing (rising stock prices) but they went broke. must be those liberals. no wonder they're angry.. my grandparents in the 1920s knew it was a gamble. today's young crowd thinks the market is a sure thing. just split the stock ... ummm ... tear it in half and you'll make a lot of money.

in 1941 my grandfather while babysitting me took me up to a place where you could day trade for small amounts. we were there a short time. he told me to watch the old time lighted stock ticker display for X (us steel) while he presumably made his bet. we left later. he must have lost his money. he was always broke.

you don't think investors are stupid or something? or its just something to do?

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REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR

i'm surprised that anyone remembers this day. a day that will "live in infamy". i guess infamy lasts about five years.

the japs are great and so much fun.

sorry we dropped the bomb. it slipped.

ok -- would you rather have a lot of japs killed or lose your life invading japan. wait --- i'm thinking......

a friend of mine's brother was killed landing on a pacific island weeks before THE BOMB was dropped. i'm sure he had no problem with the above possible choice.

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FIRST KING OF THE UNITED STATES

dateline january 2117:

king donald I, master of nothingness ascended the throne 100 years ago this month at his inauguration. it was the people's desire to devolve to the level of islamic extremists. a form of fighting fire with fire. today we are terrorist free primarily because of the artificial intelligence of the iPhone LCCCXVIII. our new king, coronated today, JEB! III will certainly strengthen us. DEATH TO THE EVIL ONES!!!!!

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dateline dec. 7 2015

repubs are trying to get rid of trump:

I don't understand how you can swift boat trump because he never did anything. you'll have to attack his obvious nothingness. his nothingness is less than others' nothngness. he's more nothing than a black hole/outer space/my bank account/my comments/the invisible man/my job/obama's isis strategy/gop's isis strategy/faux news commentary (exclude shepard smith)/arab sincerity ------ never mind.

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MY FAMILY'S GREAT INHERITANCE

soon after i retired from my govt. DOD job my childless widowed brooklyn uncle died. i was the only person of a large extended family with rights in the united states (yea).

i sorta' ran around getting legal documents and collecting his liquid assets. distributed them to the nine canadian siblings/spouses plus one neice.

my dumbass uncle j---- threatened to get his own lawyer in canada like a canadian lawyer would want to get involved in such a small estate with so many heirs. he like his older son always has to be in the spotlight although probably the dumbest in the family and in spite of being almost blowhard sociopaths. he was highly insulted when told he had no standing in the usa since he was an illegal alien. why do canadians think they're part of the usa? his share was about $10k. my only american and canadian born first cousins do not have any inheritance rights concerning my deceased uncle because their fathers were still alive and canadian citizens.

this was a good activity for me as i had nothing to do and was getting antsy.

only me and one cousin living in brooklyn went to the funeral. i was a bit concerned after paying for the funeral as i had no way of knowing whether i would be reimbursed. not only didn't i expect repayment from all the loving relatives but outside of my cousin no one else showed up. she said there were assets in his estate that would cover costs but i don't recall that she reached for her wallet. even my wife was a little concerned. i assured her everything would be just fine ---- absolutely --- and it was.

its good to be an american.



The stars and the stripes, they are calling,
Three cheers for the Red,
Three cheers for the Red,
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue!

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