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2017-12-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2017-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Dear gorb,

Please set articles you post after 2:00 p.m. ET for publication the next day — use the Tomorrow button you’ll see to the left of the text box in lonely splendour — unless it is an on-going terror attack or the imminent arrival of a dinosaur-killer meteor. Because this was neither, I unpublished it to be held for today, where it will have the entire 24 hours to be enjoyed, and won’t be the last of 71 articles.

Very sincerely,
trailing wife

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-19 00:01|| 2017-12-19 00:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah. I'll try. It was so stupid I guess I couldn't help myself. :-)

Posted by gorb 2017-12-19 03:41|| 2017-12-19 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I know a guy who was revamping an old industrial building as loft spaces. There was a twisty chimney "that had never worked right" so he had a mason cut into it to try make it functional.
There was a skeleton in a jumpsuit in it. It seems he was going down the flue and got caught in the turns and couldn't get out. The police said he'd been there since the 40's or '50's.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-12-19 09:42|| 2017-12-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Our cat did the same thing one subzero night after he refused to come inside, even though we called for him. Next morning his yowls for help echoed all over the house. Finally we zeroed in on the upstairs chimney damper. When we opened the damper, the cat fell out like Santa Claus.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-19 13:48|| 2017-12-19 13:48|| Front Page Top

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