Have no fear, the February ish is here!

Time for the Febrewery issue of The Last Word, your road atlas to freedom!

This ish is required reading like any other! It talks about New Year's on Fountain Square, the ruination of Montana school toilets, a person eating all the cherries at Kroger, a person chewing bubble gum and drooling on the floor at a mall, a "bubble gum roast" and more!

So point your noggin here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/555769222/The-Last-Word-2-2022

If that doesn't work, bip on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2202.pdf

Another weird dream

Just before I woke up this morning, I had another strange dream. I dreamed I was on a Brossart reunion committee, and we had a meeting. At the meeting, there was a table that had some form sitting there that you could fill out. Someone had written a bunch of stuff about 'Sesame Street' on the form, so I kept trying to take a photo of it with my smartphone.

My COVID experience

I am almost 100% certain I had COVID-19 over the past week – from roughly Saturday to Wednesday. It was almost certainly the Omicron variant – like 99% of recent U.S. cases.

I had COVID despite being fully vaccinated. On the other hand, some agencies and politicians in the U.S. have already declared the virus to be endemic. I've felt since last May that it has reached the endemic phase.

As the outbreak is at a much milder stage than in the spring of 2020, I managed to avoid a severe outcome, despite a litany of risky underlying health conditions. At worst, I felt mildly under the weather. It felt like the mildest cold I've ever had. In my case, it was like a cold without the worst symptoms such as the characteristic sore throat or severe congestion. But a runny nose loomed large.

Like other diseases, this novel coronavirus has sadly left its trail of death. But that trail gets narrower and narrower as the virus joins its cousins as just another of the many viruses we were already forced to battle.

Harris communications director posted tweets attacking immigrants

Now that the Democrats are America's new unliberal face of bigotry, hate, bullying, and abuse, perhaps this story isn't too surprising.

Vice-President Harris's new communications director Jamal Simmons has been under fire because of messages he posted on Twitter attacking immigrants.

In 2010, Simmons posted on Twitter: "Just saw 2 undocumented folks talking on MSNBC. One Law student the other a protester. Can someone explain why ICE is not picking them up?" Because it bips. That's why.

And now Simmons is the Biden regime's "border czar" – whatever that's supposed to mean.

Wait! There's more! As recently as 2020, Simmons wrote that the CIA's use of waterboarding was necessary to "protect the nation" even though it "may have been illegal."

But these days, when you criticize the CIA, you can count on some incel to call you part of the "far right."

Even celebrity look-alikes like New Year's!

I'm old enough to remember when TV network affiliates in Cincinnati deemed the annual New Year's celebration on Times Square too dangerous to show. They preferred instead to show the wimpy stuff on Cincinnati's Fountain Square. But now the Cincinnati events are probably better than the New York "festivities" – not because Cincinnati has gotten better, but because New York has gotten worse. Because Times Square is worse now, you know damn well our local stations show the network coverage of it now instead of Fountain Square.

Last night, I goed down to Fountain Square. It wasn't that exciting, but it was better than watching the garbage that the networks surely provided. Actually, Snap Map footage of Times Square looked decent, but I've already been informed that the networks used the event for their own propagandistic purposes. While I was on Fountain Square, I saw 2 celebrity look-alikes, and they were just as funny as all the rest I've seen over the years: Ron Howard (from back in the '80s when he had that mustache) and Kenny Rogers.

Also, early in the evening, I saw 2 – count 'em, 2 – people who were in such a festive mood that they bubbled.

Have no fear, the January ish is here!

The January issue of The Last Word is now pub, and like always, it's a beaut!

This ish talks about your failure to ruin toys you never used, Judge Mills Lane kicking a defendant out of court, ruined Slinkys, the increase in bubble gum sales, reviews of terrible museums and restaurants, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/549037639/The-Last-Word-1-2022

If that doesn't work, mosey on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2201.pdf

Maria cussed ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

It's always a barrel of laughs when a character on a children's TV show cusses.

Back in 1975, 'Sesame Street' had a week-long series of episodes in which several cast members visited New Mexico. I found the scenes from this trip on YouTube, and I've been listening to them as I process the photos from my recent New Mexico trip. But in this clip, I heard something rather interesting...



Fast-forward to about 7:48. This is while the Count kept making expensive long-distance phone calls from Sesame Street to New Mexico. As Maria storms out of the house in her bell bottoms, we hear her muttering, "Dammit!" And there's some little kid standing right there too.

'Sesame Street' ruled back in my day (unlike today).

Your friends and family are drowning in rage and despair, and it's the media's fault

Many of you have family and friends who have fallen into thrashing mania and misery because of the establishment media's militant support of the fascist "new normal."

One of the biggest tragedies in America – perhaps the world – is the fact that hordes of people have fallen under the fascist media's spell. Many more have become a shell of their former selves because the scuzz-a-luzz media has maliciously destroyed their livelihoods by encouraging lockdowns and lockdown culture.

I've been skeptical of media hype since I was a teenager, and I've been reluctant to trust media talking points without more reliable verification. In the past 2 years, however, the media has driven people you once knew into an unquestioning stupor marked by fits of rage against dissidents.

Some with a lot of time on their hands spend all their days watching garbage disguised as "news" on TV or the Internet. They will defend to their death their sources of information, calling any commentator or average person who dissents a conspiracy theorist – often both a left-wing conspiracy theorist and a right-wing conspiracy theorist in the same conversation. It doesn't matter how strong the dissenting source's credentials are. They can be a doctor, teacher, or lawyer, and they'll still be equated with the meme of the shirtless old man scowling.

Your friends and family who have been lost to the media will start arguments with you. But when you start to counter with facts, logic, and science, they will suddenly announce that they're done arguing. Sometime later, they'll bring up the same topic again, and the cycle will repeat.

One of their favorite accusations is that you sit at the computer all day looking at conspiracy websites. However, they do exactly that, except with them it's often TV instead of Internet. This is while the media has its own ridiculous conspiracy theories, like when they claim that states have deliberately undercounted COVID deaths just so they could lift restrictions.

These folks weren't as hostile and argumentative before. They didn't intentionally pick fights with dissidents like they do now. They didn't use to think everyone else – let alone the people closest to them – was an enemy. But now everybody is. They think the cashier at IGA, the 5-year-old down the street, their doctor, and everybody else are all enemies.

We can't always blame those who have begun thinking this way. If you were subjected to the totalitarian propaganda machine every waking moment, the same might happen to you. But it's sad to see so many people spending their lives thrashing about over media hype and lies.

Then there's the many people who don't lap it up but have found their livelihoods and social activities ruined because of policies the media maliciously cheered. They now lead lives of sadness, and nobody is around to comfort them.

All of this is a tragedy, and it was avoidable.

There must be some accountability for the media. There's got to be some smart lawyers who can figure out a way to make media outlets pay stiff civil penalties for their deliberate journalistic malpractice.

Turn off the TV. Read a book. Go to the store. Live.

Florida! South Carolina! Game day bucket go boom!

Those who closely follow the doings of yours truly may recall that back in September – ba-de-ya! - I goed on a little fact-finding mission to Fernandina Beach, Florida. A sea urchin stabbed my toe in the ocean, and my thermos full of apple juice fermented to become wine.

And my trip yielded 127 Roads Scholaring photos and videos. This justifies some peepage, so point your pooper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21f.html

Have no fear, the December ish is here!

It's another December to dismember at The Last Word, as our December ish is now pub!

This ish talks about  a "magic kidney", a crude map of Sesame Street, a person crinkling a candy bag at a play, a Sarah Palin look-alike chewing bubble gum, and more!

So roo and poo...

https://www.scribd.com/document/542103734/The-Last-Word-12-2021

If that doesn't work, bip your beeper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2112.pdf

Drawing the line

All over America and around the world, people have fought for justice. If one is innocent of a crime, judges and juries must acquit. If one is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, a conviction must result. I am not in a position to weigh the facts of every case, and I can only hope jurors and judges reach the right verdict. This blog entry is not a commentary on the outcome of a particular case, regardless of how we may feel about it. There is another issue at play that poses a major threat to Americans' civil liberties, and I want to make sure everyone is warned of it, so they're not caught off guard.

If you can endure even one second of the media's coverage of major news events lately, you may have noticed a lot of media attention focused on whether a defendant crossed a state line. I don't think the media was desperately trying to convict the defendant. Rather, I think the media is more interested in the long game of preparing us for a looming "papers please" dystopia.

What is the significance of state lines? Some state lines aren't even based on visible features but were arbitrarily mapped out. Why would lines that are largely invisible determine a defendant's guilt or innocence? The media cares about state lines because it lays the groundwork for the day when crossing a state line will require all of us to submit papers or undergo a search.

There's pretty convincing evidence that this is their goal. It was happening already during the full lockdowns last year. There were orders prohibiting or limiting interstate travel even into this year. There were even checkpoints between states. I heard from family of a checkpoint between Ohio and Indiana. New Mexico decreed that state parks were closed to out-of-state residents. Albuquerque's bus system was open only to New Mexico residents, and it even checked passengers' ID's. Even federal orders on things like masks refer only to interstate travel.

The priority of our pundit class is a permanent police state. The state line obsession encourages the public to accept limits on interstate movement.

I'm kind of big on all this civil liberties business, you know.

Virginia! Tennessee! Game day bucket go boom!

August's trip to Roanoke, Virginia, yielded a grand total of 165 photos of Scholaring interest. It's hard to believe it's been 3 months, but time flies and you are there!

So bip your bunker here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21g.html

GOP retakes Virginia governorship

Oh no!

Anyway...

Bill would require social media sites to verify your identity

I had no idea this was 1998.

As Big Tech book-burning continues unabated, it does of course have its enablers in Congress. Among them is Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), who is floating a draft plan to require social media websites to verify users' identity.

This will gut the anonymity vital for many users. Anonymity isn't just for right-wing churches and the Chinese Communist Party flooding newspaper comment sections with gobs of sockpuppets. Anonymity is also important for people who seriously discuss sensitive topics. It also protects those who blow the whistle on government or corporate scandals. And it protects other folks who may desire extra privacy.

Under Curtis's proposal, people would be prevented from creating accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any similar site from making an account unless they submit identification. It's a "papers please" law for the Internet.

Furthermore, these websites would be required to report users to the Federal Trade Commission if they are suspected of using phony ID's. The FTC would be required to submit these reports to the Department of Justice.

America isn't the only land were there are proposals like this. The dictatorship in Australia has a similar plan.

It's like the Communications Decency Act, Real ID, the Patriot Act, the Social Credit System, and vaccine passports all rolled into one.

Have no fear, the November ish is here!

It's a November to dismember with The Last Word!

This ish talks about my misadventure-filled New Mexico trip, high school kids stealing globes, a restaurant kicking kids out for squirting ketchup on the TV, mischief at Vermont schools, and more! It's not sold in any store!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/535782681/The-Last-Word-11-2021

If that doesn't work, bip on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2111.pdf

Fauci questioned over puppy experiments

Dr. Anthony Fauci has become the face of America's botched pandemic response and now serves as President Biden's chief medical adviser. Now a letter from members of Congress is demanding answers from Fauci over unspeakably cruel experiments on puppies.

The letter is from a bipartisan group of House members - but mostly Republicans, because the Democrats are becoming not only the party of child abuse but also of cruelty to animals. This comes after the White Coat Waste Project - the nonprofit that found U.S. taxpayer dollars were funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology - have exposed experiments that infected numerous puppies with dangerous parasites.

The White Coat Waste Project said 44 beagle puppies were abused in a lab in Tunisia, and some even had their vocal cords removed so barking wouldn't upset scientists there. Under Fauci, the NIH sent a huge sum of American taxpayer money to the lab for these experiments.

There is no justification whatsoever for this cruelty, and even the FDA said it was not necessary.

We live in an era in which so-called conspiracy theories are actually spoilers. Remember "America is fast becoming a police state"?

Minor road photos from August posted

I went on a very minor Roads Scholaring locally in August, and the event yielded only 6 photos. This justifies peepage...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/ft21.html

Wind Cave! Carhenge! Game day bucket go boom!

Back in June, I goed on a little road trip to Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. This is the trip where a woman appeared to be trying to blow a bubble with the drawstring of her jacket. The trip yielded 213 photos of Roads Scholaring interest, and you're gonna peep 'em until your face flies off in public...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21g.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21h.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21i.html

New Mexico governor pays $150K in crotch grabbing incident

It's nice to know that the Governor of New Mexico is a complete idiot.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is known for her ranting harangues and giving New Mexico one of the worst responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It turns out that a former campaign spokesman accused Lujan Grisham of a bizarre incident at a campaign staff meeting. According to this allegation, Lujan Grisham dumped water all over the man's crotch and then grabbed his crotch during the meeting.

Now Lujan Grisham has settled the resulting harassment claim for $150,000.

Lujan Grisham tried to hide this payment by making it appear on campaign finance reports to be ordinary legal expenses.

What a beezweezer.

CCP joins War on Halloween

The Religious Right used to fight against Halloween year after year. These pushy fanatics used to cancel Halloween in schools all over America. In some schools, Halloween never returned.

But now we're facing new enemy combatants in this War on Halloween. The stated reason is not COVID-19, nor is it under the same guise as the battles of previous decades. Rather, it seems to be simply...because.

Schools in Seattle; East Lansing and Grand Ledge, Michigan; and Princeton, New Jersey, recently decided to cancel all Halloween festivities. They say Halloween events create too much noise. They say Halloween is too exciting, and that this impedes the learning environment. They say canceling Halloween will somehow increase attendance. They point out that not everyone celebrates Halloween - which is true, but there's also a lot of people who don't celebrate other events. When I was in school, I had no interest in school sports or dances, but I didn't ask for these events to be canceled. When I was a high school junior, a school pal said he did not celebrate Thanksgiving. We all respected that and moved on. The school did not cancel the holiday. School officials also say Halloween wreaks havoc on people with food allergies. I'm very sensitive to a wide variety of foods, but I wouldn't dream of abolishing Halloween because of it.

Halloween doesn't violate the spirit of inclusion or the mission of education any more than most other things that schools do - and take pride in.

At the New Jersey school, officials reversed their decision to ban Halloween, but schools elsewhere are doubling down. One is replacing Halloween with "thematic units of study about the fall." There are even rumblings that cities might ban Halloween even outside of school.

This has the Chinese Communist Party's fingerprints all over it. It has become clear since last year that our overlords either support the CCP outright or are willing to do its bidding. In addition to executing the War on Halloween, they have one thing in common with the right-wing religious zealots who have fought us in the past: They are not patriots. Appeasing a hostile foreign dictatorship is not what I call patriotism. We can also abandon any pretense that our rulers are liberal. Liberal Democrats such as George McGovern and Walter Mondale were staunchly opposed to authoritarian regimes, including those that claimed to be communist.

If the CCP wanted to intentionally gunk up our society, an effective way to do it would be to advance the War on Halloween. To the CCP, this is dynamite.

The idea that our "leaders" are vanguards of liberality is a complete joke. Their totalitarian, selfish policies lately strongly resemble juche - North Korea's official ideology. But they have some elements of the Taliban and Nazi Germany thrown in.

It's 100% fair to lump the nobility that runs our school systems in with the Religious Right - because they share the exact same goal of banishing Halloween from our communities. If the jackboot fits, wear it. And if it feels good, put it on.

Land of Enchantment enchants!

Yesterday I got home from a camping trip to New Mexico.

It's obligatory for me to mention here that I saw a Florence Henderson look-alike there.

It's also a requirement that I mention that I saw a Cathy Lee Crosby look-alike there.

And it's absolutely mandatory that I mention the fact that a couple at the campsite kept loudly passing gas and laughing uncontrollably about it.

These events elicit little elaboration. But this road trip was one hilarious misadventure after another, and I plan to go into hairy detail about the trip in the November issue of The Last Word.

Patriot Act may be unleashed against school dissidents

Things that trigger a government investigation: parents and students disagreeing with school boards.

Things that don't trigger a government investigation: schools launching a years-long harassment campaign against a student.

The Nazism of America's schools has been on full display of late, and plenty of families are furious. And make no mistake, our schools are run by actual Nazis. I don't mean that in a figurative sense. If this was Germany in the 1930s, they would be card-carrying members of the Nazi Party. To be clear, they are not progressive.

Some folks are fighting back. The current regime of bio-juche has made activists out of families who never had any interest in activism before. Yet as far as I know, these families have committed no violence or crimes. Media reports imply that there has been a rise in threats against school boards and administrators. But that is a lie. It is a fabricated crisis.

Education Week now reports that the National School Boards Association is begging the Biden administration to launch an investigation of these dissidents, accusing them of "domestic terrorism." The NSBA cites - of all things - the Patriot Act. The NSBA is asking the Department of Homeland Security to get involved.

With the Patriot Act and the DHS being pressed into service, it's like having Bush back in power!

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland coddled the NSBA's deranged conspiracy theory by sending a memo to the FBI director about dissenters' nonexistent "criminal conduct."

The Biden administration is worse than Nixon, and it's not even close. In addition to all this stupidity, the administration has also been encouraging lawbreaking by school districts and openly giving them taxpayer dollars to break the law. For a presidential administration to openly condone lawbreaking is unprecedented in America's history. Even Watergate wasn't this bad. Maybe even the Iran-Contra scandal. When I registered as a Democrat when I was 18, I didn't know I signed up to become a fascist. But America today is truly fascist.

LinkedIn censors profiles to appease CCP

In recent days, LinkedIn has been notifying American journalists that it is blocking their profiles to appease the Chinese Communist Party.

LinkedIn is informing them that "your profile and your public activity, such as your comments and items that you share with your network, will not be made viewable in China." The company is not specifying what content is so offensive.

You read that right. An American company is censoring Americans to appease a foreign dictatorship.

Stories like this aren't completely new. Big Tech has sided with foreign dictators before. I recall a wave of Big Tech censorship in the late '90s or so, some of which was designed to please authoritarian regimes abroad. And who could forget Yahoo turning in journalists to the Chinese government?

More recently, Apple, Google, and YouTube have caved to overseas censors' demands.

The Democrats are furious. Wait, no, they're not. That would be the 1991 Democrats. The 2021 Democrats don't care, because they hate America.

LinkedIn issued a statement declaring, "We're a global platform that respects the laws that apply to us, including adhering to Chinese government regulations for our localized version of LinkedIn in China." Then what about following American laws in America? The U.S. used to look dimly on antitrust violations and against common carriers policing content.

The treason by Big Tech and the Democrats isn't a problem we can just bubble away.

Bitter gum face! (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Let's reflect back on some TV commercials circa 1997!

You may remember the Keystone beer commercials in which the cooltagonist would display "bitter beer face." Well, this is a commercial from that same era for Extra sugarless gum in which a woman seems to have "bitter gum face"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj8ph5snX0I

Here's a synopsis of that commersh in case you're afraid an exploding cigar will pop out of your computer screen. A woman is standing on a rocky beach with other tourists - in order to see a whale jump out of the sea, a once-in-a-lifetime event. She crams a stick of the competitor's gum - you could tell it's Trident - into her mouth.

But the gum is so nasty that she needs another piece after just a few seconds. The look on her face is like the "bitter beer face" in the Keystone ads. So she starts pawing around in her bag for another stick. Just then, the whale pops up - and she misses it!

She waited her whole life to see the whale, and inferior gum caused her to miss it!

On the boat on the way back, she sulks because she missed the whale!

But nobody bubbled.

Mike DeWine look-alike sighted at airport

I've received an e-mail declaring that a Mike DeWine look-alike has been seen at the underground train at the Cincinnati airport. He was said to have strongly resembled the diminutive right-wing Governor of Ohio.

Have no fear, the October ish is here!

Imagine being cool.

Along with that, imagine sitting on the edge of your seat for the October issue of The Last Word. Well, the wait is over!

This ish talks about my Fernandina Beach trip, people drinking beer on the Cincinnati streetcar, accidentally brewing wine from apple juice, Hawaiian Punch bubble gum, 'Sesame Street' cereal, people selling garbage at yard sales, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/528633378/The-Last-Word-10-2021

If you can't read it on Scribd, you may find it here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2110.pdf

Butbutbut what about your sources?

A few words about sources for this blog's entries are in order. I don't mean humorous entries like "A Peter Cetera look-alike bubbled at Olive Garden." I mean serious news items.

This blog used to contain a lot more entries, and most were serious stories. Little by little, I stopped linking to various major news outlets, because they so clearly had a right-wing bias. After a few years, I don't think I even linked to any of America's over-the-air networks, and I think I stopped linking to CNN because it ran a discredited tabloid story claiming a mass shooter was a leftist. Now I very rarely link to any major media at all.

Lately, a few people have criticized me for not trusting major media, even as I quote Twitter blurbs from individuals. The people I follow on Twitter are more trustworthy than major media. Since the pandemic began, I've caught major media in lie after lie, designed to advance their bizarre fetish for continued COVID lockdowns and lockdown culture. Some of the media's statements were demonstrably false, and they also broke their promise that restrictions would be eased when we met certain goals.

I was assailed because the people I read on Twitter supposedly don't have the credentials the media has. That's simply not true. Some of them are statisticians who have advanced degrees, and most of their information is raw numbers, not editorial content that lets them twist things around. One of the best sources for COVID information is an accomplished public defender who became a civil liberties attorney. Two other sources are teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Others are doctors and epidemiologists.

They are not conspiracy theorists. The real conspiracy theorists are those in the media who actually claimed with a straight face that states were deliberately undercounting COVID deaths just so they'd have an excuse to lift lockdowns. Democrats and Republicans alike have been the target of this conspiracism - just as both parties were also lockdown perpetrators.

CNN and MSNBC keep whipping up fear among viewers who have become addicted to media fearmongering. These channels are as bad as Fox News was after 9/11. People have lost loved ones to these channels, as they lost others to Fox some 20 years ago. The FCC needs to step in and hold these channels accountable.

It is credentialism to claim that individuals on Twitter count less than established news sources. But it falls flat when you point out these Twitter folks have credentials that are just as strong as those of anyone else.

A person bubbled at Kroger

Today at Kroger, some woman bubbled.

Ploppings! Vomiting! Beer! Game day bucket go boom!

This weekend is Cincinnati's Oktoberfest - or, as I call it, Ploptoberfest.

After the city reduced the space for Ploptoberfest to make way for the dumb streetcar and then lied about it, I figured I'd start avoiding the event. But after last year's shitshow, I decided to give Ploptoberfest another chance.

This year was barely worth it for me, because I apparently have another gallbladder infection that spoiled the day, or I'm feeling the result of being stabbed by a sea urchin during last week's Florida trip. Some aspects of Ploptoberfest are starting to improve again, but they still haven't gotten anywhere near the glory of a decade ago. A lot of this is more Last Word material than 'Pail material, but I'll give a rundown of yesterday's events.

People plopped stuff. I noticed someone had put a plastic Hawaiian Punch bottle in the toilet. Later, I saw that someone had put a plastic Kroger bag in the toilet.

I threw up because of the suspected gallbladder infection.

I noticed that people were drinking beer on the streetcar - in stark violation of an Allowed Cloud.

Also, some woman was in a festive enough mood that she bubbled a humongous bub.

Gum Fighter takes on Alice Cooper (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Sorry to report the death at age 92 of Don Collier, Western actor who played the Gum Fighter in the Hubba Bubba bubble gum commercials of the 1970s and 1980s.

In a media interview, Collier said he really didn't like blowing bubbles with bubble gum. Yet bubble he did. Some of these Wild West-themed commercials had to be filmed in Australia so they could air in that country. Collier said in another interview that he had to travel to Australia twice to film the ads. But he liked Australia so much that he visited 6 more times. (That was before Australia became the military dictatorship it is today.) Some of the ads though were filmed in Arizona.

A Hubba Bubba commersh from 1981 showed the Gum Fighter getting into a bubble bustin' battle with an Alice Cooper look-alike...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cmEjR3d6KA

The Gum Fighter's adversary in that ad was played by the late Timothy Carey. A website once reported that Carey didn't know how to blow a bubble until he was hired to appear in the ad, and that his daughter had to show him how.

But the Gum Fighter won the showdown with Alice Cooper, and at the end of the ad, Collier's character declared, "Big bubbles, no troubles!" Then he laughed in a manner similar to Shadoe Stevens.

These commercials will live on as long as they dare!