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[A Friend of Charlie]

Coffee and a pipe to get things rolling

What did you fill the bowl with? Christmas Cheer?

[Threebean]

Good morning ChristmasEvers.  Sunny but 32 nipply degrees here.

Good morning, Mark. I hope you stay warm. Any red lights?

Not driving to the orifice today, so no, all greens!

[Travellin Dave]

The last elves move for 2020. Can't wait to put them back in the box.

TWHS

[LuvTooGolf]

The last elves move for 2020. Can't wait to put them back in the box.

So we're all just gonna ignore the "Tony with hair" part of this picture?

[Travellin Dave]

The last elves move for 2020. Can't wait to put them back in the box.

TWHS

Adios creepy little MOFO.

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, all. Got a package from work today - biscotti, hot chocolate mix, Amazon gift card and this metal bad boy. I can feel your jealousy from here.

[Travellin Dave]

Morning Oy, Dean, Tony, Dave, Rick and Mr. Bean.

[Travellin Dave]

Morning, all. Got a package from work today - biscotti, hot chocolate mix, Amazon gift card and this metal bad boy. I can feel your jealousy from here.

Now that's a Christmas bonus!

[Travellin Dave]

Good morning ChristmasEvers.  Sunny but 32 nipply degrees here.

In the upper 50's here now, but heading that way this evening.

[LuvTooGolf]

Another delivery right behind the first one.

[LuvTooGolf]

Best deals I see are $2.50 crema and $3.50 el baton cigarpage and cigarplace

Thanks for the heads up, Oy.

[LuvTooGolf]

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor Ronnie Schell is 89.
Former Emperor Akihito of Japan is 87.
Actor Frederic Forrest is 84.
Rock musician Jorma Kaukonen (YOR’-mah KOW’-kah-nen) is 80.
Rock musician Ron Bushy is 79.
Actor-comedian Harry Shearer is 77.
U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) is 76.
Actor Susan Lucci is 74.
Singer-musician Adrian Belew is 71.
Rock musician Dave Murray (Iron Maiden) is 64.
Actor Joan Severance is 62.
Singer Terry Weeks is 57.
Rock singer Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) is 56.
The former first lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is 53.
Rock musician Jamie Murphy is 45.
Jazz musician Irvin Mayfield is 43.
Actor Estella Warren is 42.
Actor Elvy Yost is 33.
Actor Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (TAG’-lee) is 30.
Actor Spencer Daniels is 28.
Actor Caleb Foote is 27.

These birthdays seem familiar...

[LuvTooGolf]

Ten years ago: Mail bombs blamed on anarchists exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, seriously wounding two people. Chicago Board of Election Commissioners ruled that former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was a resident of the city and therefore eligible to run for mayor.


Five years ago: Protesters blocked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday traffic delays around Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after staging a Black Lives Matter rally that also briefly shut down part of the Mall of America; the demonstrations were organized to draw attention to the recent police shooting of a Black man in Minneapolis. Peggy Say, 74, who spent nearly seven years on a tireless quest for the release of her brother, AP journalist Terry Anderson, and fellow hostages from kidnappers in Lebanon, died in Cookeville, Tennessee.


One year ago: Boeing ousted CEO Dennis Muilenburg as the company remained engulfed in the crisis stemming from the crash of two of its 737 Max airliners. A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi royal family; the five were among 11 people who were put on trial over the killing.

This news, too.

[Travellin Dave]

Another delivery right behind the first one.

Ho Ho Ho indeed.

[LuvTooGolf]

Another delivery right behind the first one.

Ho Ho Ho indeed.

The best gifts are the ones we give ourselves. Or, the ones that actually arrive.