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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • They said monorail… but is it not the treehouse of horrors where Bart is feeling unimportant and gains the ability to read people’s thoughts ( I wanna say money paw) and can use his mind to turn them into wonky things? He turns Homer into a Jack in the box.

    I remember a radio/tv announcer seeing something really strange happen during a baseball game or something - like the pitcher suddenly gets duck feet - announcer says like “and what do we say whenever something strange happens… it’s good Bart did that”

    The whole town becomes terrified of him.














  • I agree. Further to that I believe protocol is that when speaking, one must address their comments to the speaker as opposed to any member in the chamber. It is mostly decorum and intended to keep a lid on tempers and direct personal exchanges that can flare up into a hubbub. Speaker is intended to be the impartial head master of the school he oversees and keep the house in order and apply the rules fairly. As you well will have seen - there are varying degrees of success in that pursuit.



  • Mr Lisa Goes to Washington : the city of Washington was built on a stagnant swamp some 200 years ago, and very little has changed. It stank then and it stinks now, only today it is the fetid stench of corruption that hangs in the air.

    Lisa wins a Reader’s Digest essay contest and the family goes to the finals of the contest in DC. She sees a congressman make a deal to shaft the environment and has a change of heart about the focus of her speech.

    Special mention: Speech called “USA, A-OK” and Homer telling the Reader’s Digest rep that he really loves their magazine, esp the section about “How to improve your vocabulary. That thing is really, really, really… good.”


  • Looks like a locking pin where the groove sits against a sprung ball bearing. Easy enough to insert and release but prevents two parts from moving in a perpendicular path to the pin. Can be used to stop pivoting too.

    Makes me think of the kind of pin that you pull out to lift up the seat of a rowing machine to store it vertically.