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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

Did you intend for the picture on the Tabs page to not be a gif? Or am I somehow defective?

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JCfromNC's avatar

You're not the only one. I was wondering about that as well until I clicked through to 'Tini's post and saw it as God intended.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

I did. Might not be working due to a glitch. Can check out the moving version here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/a-holiday-card-to-you-our-friends

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

You think I didn't click through? I'm crushed. I always click through to your lovely place.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

I didn’t want to assume… but I do see you over there frequently. Thanks for the clicks!

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Menotsure's avatar

Your very lovely Christmas gif

Has really raised the bar

Even though one ornament

Resembles The Death Star.

As we leave the year behind

There's one more thing to do

A word of thanks from we who

Get gifs each day from you.

Merry Christmas!

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C.L.'s avatar

*Cannot unsee the Death Star now*

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Menotsure's avatar

My work is done, here.

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Thalia Is Not Amused's avatar

Awwww, Me! What a wonderful poem, written for a wonderful person. Merry Christmas to you as well, sweet friend!

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

😍🎄🪩

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The Wanderer's avatar

The phallic trees, shown showering the gifts of the season upon one and all . . .

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Retro Christmas cards! I can remember sitting at the kitchen table as a yute stamping and addressing a pile of them every year.

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RocktonSam's avatar

My parents made me hand deliver cards. No postage.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Wow! That would be quite a walk to deliver cards to friends and family who had moved away.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

uphill both ways

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jltympanum's avatar

Wearing breadbags instead of shoes.

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Sherry's avatar

Bread bags INSIDE the shoes for us southern folk who only got the sudden surprise snow and never had boots.

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RocktonSam's avatar

On my bike in Wisconsin winter

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NewLarry's avatar

Studded snow tires on your Schwinn!

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Dave Zirkle's avatar

Awsome kitchen. I love it. Merry christmas to all.

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Patricia Jones's avatar

Love your kitchen, it looks like a family lives there, cozy and peaceful.

I’m not going to make any comments politico, I need to give myself a holiday break. Happy Holidays to all. We can handle the New Year!

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Suzanne Alexander's avatar

The kitchen is adorable and makes me want to move back to Detroit because I love the architecture. And then I remember the winters. And I say nope.

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Johnny Appleseed's avatar

"What was that? Did you say Yute?"

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Johnny Appleseed's avatar

I l9ve a great Spoe5s report!

ps. Has Donald been cucked by Musky? Whassistant's.

Enjoy your Holiday's erryone of you! If you don't celebrate Holiday's, just get ripped and enjoy a great movie w/our movie-boss and her 2 capable assistants.

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Johnny Appleseed's avatar

Note to self: try to open your eyes b4 posting next time!

"I love a great Sports Report". Disregard "Whassistant's".

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

You know what that kitchen needs? A Fritz the Cat wall clock where the tail swings back and forth and the eyes move in the opposite direction to the tail.

That's what that kitchen needs.

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mfp-6s,7s,9s's avatar

the write-up on "its' a wonderful life"...this is the correct interpretation...

now...go watch the xmas movie "remember the night" w barbara stanwyck and fred mcmurray, from 1939, five years earlier than 'wunnaful'---watch it with your romantic partner or loved one, have a full box of tissues, and some heart band-aids, you're going to need them

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Bob O`Bob's avatar

I visited a home (way above my own means) in the late 1980s, where the homemaker was a person of small stature, and in that kitchen, Each And Every base cabinet had a step-stool built in, to reach the upper ones. You had to lift a handle to fold them away, but each one would deploy automatically when the "toe-kick" area was pressed with a toe. Also the counter-tops were lower than typical. I believe the architectural rule-of-thumb is for counter-tops to be lower than one's elbow if one is expected to be able to use knives and other utensils.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I know a woman who's 6'2", and her husband is 6'6". They were in the process of building a house, and they were having the kitchen counters and appliances built for their height.

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beb's avatar

Wow, your kitchen is so cluttered, meaning it is full of stuff. Our kitchen is about the size of some people's walk-in closet so this is me envying your kitchen.

Happy Solstice! Keeping the Pagan in Christmas.

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Lady MS's avatar

Have seen your sked & will behave accordingly. Best of all holidays - whichever you observe - to Wonkers worldwide🥳 88 y.o. cousin, who knows some things, sent me a gift card to my local supermarket. Thus, have dubbed week of Xmas-NYD ‘Carnivore Carnivale’. Getting the large rotisserie chicken, ground Chuck enough for my own, best evah meat loaf, and a pork tenderloin I can have w/black-eyed peas for good fortune in the year ahead.

Only lights this year are on door wreath. Customarily leave them up till natl. holiday of Super Bowl, but will be taking them down on 1/19 as my symbolic protest of Inauguration Day, 2025. Will ketchup with all the latest tea later in the week. Be well, errybody. Wonkette loves y’all❤️

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

I love "It's a wonderful life, watch it every year and tear up at the end every time. That was a thoughtful essay at the Bulwark, thanks for the tip!

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Michael Bowen's avatar

I enjoyed the column as well. I always cringed a bit at that scene too.

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

I do remember thinking “yeah right” when she answered “to not become an old maid”

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TalentNotAutotune's avatar

Rickey Henderson wasn't just A baseball man, he was THE baseball man. Greatest lead off hitter in history, greatest base stealer in history, maybe the funniest baseball player in history.

He was and always will be a legend.

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Johnny Appleseed's avatar

A legendary base stealer!

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"M"'s avatar

I have a Festivus grievance – there is no fucking “discrimination against White people”

ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETELY IGNORANT OF THE HISTORY THAT GOT THE COUNTRY TO THIS POINT BELIEVE THERE IS “racial discrimination against White people” – it’s just insane

https://bsky.app/profile/nancylevinestearns.bsky.social/post/3ldyiyznspk22

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Michael Alan Dover, PhD's avatar

Wonkettes, any Winnie the Pooh fans among you? My Stpeking from the Heart advisor says n-o-t to pust my 1969 Michigan Daily Christmas supplement story, Winnie-the-Pooh Look for Haycorns and Discover Christmas, but I'll going to put a link to it here anyway! What do you think? https://tinyurl.com/PoohAndPartyDiscoverChristmas

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

"Information warfare is real, and the bad guys are AMAZING at it."

Thks for the linky. Read the NYT article even though I swore I would never read the NYT again. Seems like the "bad guys" are leaning on some "Mean Girls" to do the dirty work. That, to me, is the story.

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mfp-6s,7s,9s's avatar

bad guys leaning on mean girls for the dirty work?...'twas ever thus

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