MORE MILD VANDALISM, WITH READER COMMENTS

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I Really Can’t

Me neither dude!

Same

Please please listen to us. it’s not worth it. i promise, it gets better :) please hang on, i won’t let you go.

Love the comma in cope,man!

Love the 'same', lol

Lol. This reminds me of the time somebody drew d***s in the dirt all over the back of my white van, and I was riding around town, clueless to why people were honking and smiling at me. 🤦🏻‍♀️

It's just written in the dirt with a finger

Me yesterday.

Me all the time.

wow if there's ever a vehicle that needed the words wash me on it, it's this one

It be like that sometimes

Who will start a gofundme with me to get this a car wash

Hope it doesn't rain for a while.

This made me laugh out loud.

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Never Give Up

Never gonna make you cry....

Never gonna say goodbye...

It's 04:30 here in the UK. I've had no sleep as it's too bloody hot and now I have an ear worm 😂

It's 4:54 now and I'm in the same situation xD

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Just got Rickrolled by a wall. 🤣

Saw this picture three days ago and the song is still in my head.

Does it bother anyone else the "original text" wasn't originally centered?

a rather creative rickroll

It would be great if there was an out of order elevator (lift) just beyond this sign.

Couldn't read it without the tune in my head. It was an immediate mental reaction.

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No Escape From This Memery./-

Caught in a landslide.

No escape from reality

Great sketch!

With pen/sharpie, no less :0 though I expect they used pencil and then traced

Does anyone else wonder why so many other people s**t with pens?

I always have a pen on me, either in a pocket or bag. Sometimes both.

caught in a land slide, no escape from realityyy

OK, props to whoever chose to spend their time finishing this masterpiece instead of doing anything else.

I needed this ty 🤣 🤣 🤣

Recently discovered this iconic line was borrowed from the first season of ER. Still funny though and no kid would have gotten the joke!

Happened again. Automatically sang it in my head. Great graffiti response.

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Found This In A Bathroom At University

That’s even funnier because it’s not a hand dryer!

I didn’t even catch that! That is brilliantly evil!

I expect dinner and a movie first

I’m observing the comments and… using intuition, I suspect there is something about this phrase that makes it inappropriate to repeat in public…

I put a sign that said “voice activated copier” on the printer. Watched people say “copy COPY!!!” all day. Happy times

if someone overheard you.... I SWEAR I'M JUST TRYING TO DRY MY HANDS

I want to do this, and then watch so bad!

This is absolute gold!

I once witnessed a lady trying to dry her hands in the dispensing tray of a tampon machine.

Years ago, one of our line cooks convinced one of our hosts that the paper towel dispensers were voice activated. She spent a good five minutes standing there saying "towel" over and over again trying to dry her hands.

Imagine being vulnerable in a stall and hearing someone yelling, "blow me".

I've seen these and people have just followed the sign in some instances, talking and yelling at the thing to start, and then reporting them as not working.

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Technically Mild Vandalism

Inventive.

Creative.

Genius marketing!

Would this count as vandalism tho? You need to pay someone to remove what some people would call damage Other than that I think it’s quite smart It’s a bit those street shoe cleaners that clean one of your shoes for free so you see the difference and pay for the other shoe to be cleaned as well

Can someone explain?

The pressure washing company pressure washed their phone number as an advertisement onto the path, though it could be seen as vandalism because in a way it's like graffiti and can't be gotten rid of unless they call them to pressure wash the whole path or just let the path get dirty again, hope that was clear and helped :]

I anticipate an excellent return in that investment

Now I am curious about the technical aspects of how they did this. Maybe an adhesive vinyl stencil they peeled off afterwards? Similar to what is done for some glass etching. A "regular' stencil would likely lift up under the water pressure and not give you such crisp lines.

OMGawsh - this is so outstanding. LOVE IT

I hope that got them some business before they had to power wash this entire walk for free as part of their fine.

Great way to advertise and show the quality of your work - Love it.

Anyone else see a hippo?

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An Accident Made A Bit Brighter

Those might be the largest Google eyes ever.

There’s a store I went to… I forget what it was called. Max’s? I Don’t remember. But I got these huge googly eyes… the backs are made of thick cardboard. I’m confident mine would be larger than these

Omg ive never seen anything more beautiful in my life

Smoking is very, very bad for you!!!

Omg! Driving thru the Monticello Indiana area a few years back, I saw this and turned around to snap a pic! Funny seeing the actual thing then seeing it in a pic here!

the tin man

smoking is bad for its health

So, it ate the vehicle except for the tailpipe. . .?

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Are You?

Ok the fact that this is even a billboard tho

Oh, the things found on billboards… my mom and sister once spotted a billboard saying “who farted?”

i said next question!

Ok, that made me laugh.

Only my mother or a judge asks me that question.

they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand

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Die Hard

Does that mean it's rated at one Bruce Willis, or equivalent weight?

My first thought was that if you crawled through in that direction, you’d meet Bruce Willis

Alas, I think Bruce Willis has crawled through his last duct.

Also works with John Bender of Breakfast Club fame

I love this! ❤️ you Bruce!!

Old cliches Die Hard.

This way to the detonators.

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Airport Bathroom. Thought It Was A Sticker, But It Appears To Be Drawn

Gnome!

How can you tell that that airport is in Alaska just from that one photo? It's witchcraft I say, witchcraft! 😱

Rule numero uno for vandalizing: before even considering vandalizing, first ensure that your creative/art skills are top notch.

Airport bathroom in Gnome, Alaska?

Wow, that’s quite a drawing!

It's David de Kabouter by Rien Poortvliet.

I recognised this too, I watched the show as a kid, but I didn't know the name anymore. Thank you for reminding me! :)

Careful, he might be trying to steal your underpants.

Uh-oh! Can you help me out? I have Gnome more paper!

It’s good to gnome that there’s a gnome there!

An airport? OMG! This is the cousin of the Twilight Zone gremlin that almost killed William Shatner! Run for your lives!

Musta been a long a$$ dump

What up my Gnomie?

The Gnome is cute, but, my OCD says, don't you just hate when they don't lineup the tile corners. . .?

Can we appreciate the people with the courage and artistic talent to do this?

You've been ganomed!

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QUOTE FOR THE DAY

 

WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

Continuing a look at the events and people in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire.

Each two lines represent a year.

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

1959:

Buddy Holly -

Charles Hardin Holley (1936 – 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 (top to bottom: Allison, Holly and Mauldin)

He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.

He made his first appearance on local television in 1952, and the following year he formed the group "Buddy and Bob" with his friend Bob Montgomery. In 1955, after opening for Elvis Presley, he decided to pursue a career in music. He opened for Presley three times that year; his band's style shifted from country and western to entirely rock and roll. In October that year, when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was spotted by Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, who helped him get a contract with Decca Records.

Holly's recording sessions at Decca were produced by Owen Bradley, who had become famous for producing orchestrated country hits for stars like Patsy Cline. Unhappy with Bradley's musical style and control in the studio, Holly went to producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico, and recorded a demo of "That'll Be the Day", among other songs. Petty became the band's manager and sent the demo to Brunswick Records, which released it as a single credited to "The Crickets", which became the name of Holly's band. In September 1957, as the band toured, "That'll Be the Day" topped the US and UK singles charts. Its success was followed in October by another major hit, "Peggy Sue".

Holly made his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in January 1958 and soon after toured Australia and then the UK.

Holly is often regarded as the artist who defined the traditional rock-and-roll lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums. He was a major influence on later popular music artists, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Hollies, Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, Marshall Crenshaw, and Elton John.

He was among the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986.

Relevance to 1959:

In early 1959, Holly had assembled a new band, consisting of future country music star Waylon Jennings (bass), famed session musician Tommy Allsup (guitar), and Carl Bunch (drums), and embarked on a tour, the Winter Dance Party tour, of the midwestern US. 

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane to travel to his next show in Moorhead, Minnesota. Soon after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in a tragedy later referred to by Don McLean as "The Day the Music Died" in his song "American Pie".

The Winter Dance Party tour began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 23, 1959. The amount of travel involved created logistical problems, as the distance between venues had not been considered when scheduling performances. Adding to the problem, the unheated tour buses twice broke down in freezing weather, with dire consequences. Holly's drummer Carl Bunch was hospitalized for frostbite to his toes (sustained while aboard the bus), so Holly decided to seek other transportation.

On February 2, before their appearance in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a four-seat Beechcraft Bonanza airplane for Jennings, Allsup, and himself, from Dwyer Flying Service in Mason City, Iowa. Holly's idea was to depart following the show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake and fly to their next venue, in Moorhead, Minnesota, via Fargo, North Dakota, allowing them time to rest and launder their clothes and avoid a rigorous bus journey.

Immediately after the Clear Lake show (which ended just before midnight), Allsup agreed to flip a coin for the seat with Valens. Valens called heads; when he won, he reportedly said, "That's the first time I've ever won anything in my life." Allsup later opened a restaurant/bar in Fort Worth, Texas, called Heads Up Saloon. Waylon Jennings voluntarily gave up his seat to J. P. Richardson (the Big Bopper), who had influenza and complained that the tour bus was too cold and uncomfortable for a man of his size.

The pilot, Roger Peterson, took off in inclement weather, even though he was not certified to fly by instruments only. Buddy's brother Larry Holley said:

"I got the full report from the Civil Aeronautics – it took me a year to get it, but I got it – and they had installed a new Sperry gyroscope in the airplane. The Sperry works different than any other gyro. One of them, the background moves and the plane stays like this [stationary], and in the other one the background stays steady and the plane moves, it works just backwards. He [the pilot] could have been reading this backwards... they were going down, they thought they were still climbing."

Shortly after 12:55 am on February 3, 1959, Holly, Valens, Richardson, and Peterson were killed when the aircraft crashed into a cornfield five miles northwest of Mason City shortly after takeoff. The three musicians, who were ejected from the fuselage upon impact, sustained severe head and chest injuries. Holly was 22 years old.

The report did not mention a gun belonging to Holly that was found by a farmer two months after the crash. Newspaper accounts of the gun discovery fuelled rumours among fans that the pilot was somehow shot, causing the crash. Another curious finding at the crash was that Richardson's body was discovered nearly 40 feet (12 meters) away from the crash while the others were found in or near the wreckage. However, an autopsy done at the request of Richardson's son in 2007 found no evidence to support the rumours. Dr. Bill Bass, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, stated that "There was no indication of foul play," and that Richardson "died immediately."

Signpost near the Clear Lake crash site

Holly's headstone in the City of Lubbock Cemetery

Holly's body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery, in the eastern part of the city. His headstone carries the correct spelling of his surname (Holley) and a carving of his Fender Stratocaster guitar.

Giant glasses mark the entrance to the Buddy Holly Centre in Lubbock, Texas.

By the way:

• Holley was known as Buddy Holly from an incorrect name in a contract.

• The belief that the plane which crashed was called “American Pie” is a myth.

• Though several Buddy Holly songs were hits, only “That’ll Be the Day” was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

• If not for Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets, there would be no Beatles. John, Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe (who played bass for the band during the Hamburg days) were all huge Buddy Holly fans. When trying to come up with a new name for their band (The Quarrymen, their original name after the school they went to, was growing long in the tooth), they thought of the Crickets. Then insects. Then beetles. Then eventually, after several variations, as a pun … Beatles. "It was beat and beetles, and when you said it people thought of crawly things, and when you read it, it was beat music,” John Lennon explained in 1964.

• According to The Buddy Holly Story (1979) by John Goldrosen, Elton John started wearing horn-rimmed glasses at age 13 because of Buddy Holly — even though young Elton didn’t even need glasses.

• Buddy Holly played Duluth, Minnesota at the Duluth National Guard Armory on January 31, 1959 — the next-to-last show he would play — and young 17-year-old Robert Zimmerman was supposedly 3 feet away from him. Bob Dylan mentioned this story in his acceptance speech when Time Out of Mind won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1998.

• When the plane crashed on January 31, 1959, his signature glasses were not immediately found. Some of the belongings from the wreckage weren’t discovered until after the snow melted in the spring. The glasses were given to the sheriff’s office and placed into an envelope, but that envelope was misplaced when the Cerro Gordo County offices moved to a different courthouse. They weren’t re-discovered until a sheriff found the long-lost envelope in a courthouse storage unit in March, 1980. They were eventually passed along to Buddy Holly’s widow María Elena Santiago, who manages his estate.

• “Peggy Sue" was originally "Cindy Lou." The single, released on September 20, 1957, first carried the moniker of Holly’s niece, Cindy Lou Kaiter. But Jerry Allison, The Crickets’ drummer who co-wrote the song (with Holly and Norman Petty), prevailed upon the others to name it after his girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron. Happy ending: Allison and Peggy Sue got married. Unhappy: they divorced in 1965.

• In June 1956, Holly along with his older brother Larry as well as Allison and Sonny Curtis went to see the film The Searchers, starring John Wayne, in which Wayne repeatedly used the phrase "that'll be the day". This line of dialogue inspired the young musicians to write the song by that name.

• On 1st July 1976, Paul McCartney purchased the rights to Buddy Holly’s entire song catalogue.

• Holly wed María Elena Holly (née Santiago), who Buddy two weeks after meeting her at a music publisher in New York, where she worked. She was pregnant when he died, but suffered a miscarriage a few days later. Santiago-Holly still controls much of the continuing business related to Holly’s music, but doesn’t own the songs—they’re held by Paul McCartney. In 2009, Santiago-Holly told MassLive.com that she liked “American Pie” but disagreed with its central premise. "Buddy may not be here, but the music has not died," she said. "It is still alive and well."

Buddy Holly & The Crickets 1958 Australian Tour Program w/Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Anka and others

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

 

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Welcome to this week’s LAUGH, Byters.

Kate and I came down with Covid and we have only just now gotten over the symptoms. The two of us needed to isolate and I returned to work today (Thursday). Before that I was working from home.

Which is a segue for the theme of today’s post: work.

Enjoy.

There is the usual caution for some risqué humour ahead.

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SOME HUMOUR:

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An eight year old girl went to the office with her Dad on a "Take your kid to work day".

As they were walking around the office the young girl was getting crankier and crankier, crying and sobbing. Her father asked what was wrong with her.

As the concerned office staff gathered around she sobbed loudly "Daddy, where are all the clowns you said you worked with?"

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Saw the CEO arriving to work in a Ferrari this morning. He noticed I was looking and he told me "If you work hard for this company, if you stay overtime without asking compensation, if you truly believe you can make a difference and instil the same passion into your colleagues...

... then probably next year I'll be able to go for a Lambo."

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My annual performance review says I lack “passion and intensity.” I guess management hasn’t seen me alone with a Big Mac.

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A little girl was on summer break, and some guys showed up to work on the house across the street

Being the curious type, she decided to walk over and offer her help. The guys said sure, of course she could. So they gave her little jobs to do all week, "bring these screws over to Ray" and that sort of thing.

After the week was over, they decided to give her a little payment, and handed her an envelope with $50 in it. When she came home that day and showed her mother her pay, Mum suggested that they go to the bank and start a savings account. They went to the bank, and the little girl proudly showed the money to the teller and told her she would like to start an account.

The teller was impressed and asked, "Where did you get this money?" "I was working on a house!" said the little girl. The teller replied "Oh, and will you be working on the house next week, too?" The little girl replied, "Yeah, if we ever get those fucking bricks."

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I work for the Big, International Non-Governmental Organization.

And BINGO is its name-o.

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My wife and I are both unemployed. My mum died in a car crash. We have three children and we're all staying in my grandma's place, and my grandma died recently. My dad has to work at 73. I'll do any job to take care of my family. Please share.

Sincerely,

William, Prince of Wales

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A first grader is working on his math homework. While working, he says “1 plus 1, the son of a bitch is 2. 2 plus 2, the son of a bitch is 4”.

His mother hears him and in shock, she cries “What did you just say?” The boy replies “This is what the teacher says during arithmetic: 4 plus 4, the son of a bitch is 8.” His mother freaked, “Okay, I’m going to school with you tomorrow so I can sit in during arithmetic!”

Sure enough, the next day the boy’s mother joined him in school. During arithmetic, the teacher said “2 plus 2, the sum of which is 4 . . .”

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An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a southerner, a New Englander, and a Californian), an Argentinian, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uraguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, a Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahamanian, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, a Taiwanese, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and an African walk into a restaurant.

“I’m sorry,” said the maître d’, “but you can’t come in here without a Thai.”

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LIMERICK OF THE WEEK:

Gloucester in New South Wales is a town of 2,390 people (2016 census) located in dairy and beef cattle country about 220 km north of Sydney.

It is also a city in the South West of England with a population of 132,000 and is known for its cathedrals.

It is pronounced "Gloster" and is sometimes written as "Glos" for short.

There was a young lady of Glos

Whose friends quite thought they had los,

When her handbag they spied

Coming back from a ride

On the horns of a bull that had tos.

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GALLERY:

From Vince C, thanks Vince:

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LAW & LAWYERS

After many years of hard work, Joe rewarded himself with a long stay at a swanky resort.

While relaxing on the beach, he was surprised to see a former high school classmate who he hadn't seen since they graduated. His old friend had been something of a "burnout" in high school, and this was the last place Joe expected to see him.

Joe approached the man, and seized his hand. "Pete, it's Joe. From high school. It's sure been a long time. You look great! You must really be doing okay for yourself."

"I am," whispered Pete. "I am a partner with a very successful law firm. But don't tell mother. She got the idea that I was a drug dealer back when I was in high school and she would be terribly disappointed if she figured out how I really make my money."

(An alternative, shorter version is: If you see my mother, don't tell her I'm a lawyer because she thinks I play the piano in a brothel.")

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CORN CORNER:

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When my wife starts to sing, I always go outside and do some garden work....

so our neighbours can see there's no domestic violence going on.

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I used to work for an origami company

Until it folded

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Not to brag, but I aced the drug test at work today.

Nobody got higher than me.

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If "tomb" is pronounced "toom", "womb" is pronounced "woom" then shouldn'tbv"bomb" be pronounced "BOOM" ?

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The other day I spotted an albino Dalmatian

It was the least I could do for the young fella

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My dad worked as a clown. When he died I didn’t want to follow his work.

He left big shoes to fill.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

 

MILD VANDALISM

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There is a website called Mildly Vandalised which invites members of the public to post funny and non-serious cases of public vandalism. You can access the site by clicking on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MildlyVandalised/

The website describes itself as "A place to share pictures and videos (or whatever) of mild vandalism that is either funny or mindful (or whatever)."

Bored Panda recently posted a selection of items from that site and with reader comments, many of which are as funny as the vandalism. The Bored Panda post is at:

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-mild-vandalism-pictures/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Here are selected items and reader comments from the Bored Panda post . . .

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Free Hat in Every Box

Reader comments:

Some assembly required, the voices in your head will tell you how it is done.

The voices are not in my head. That would be crazy sauce. The voices are being transmitted thru intergalactic transference waves.

Hurry!!! Presidential elections are coming up soon!!

“ Sales rise among QAnon customers “

The new "Trump 2024" cap.

The 5G signals are telling me to commit violent acts! Aaaggghh!

Worked at a PD. Officers passed these out on a regular basis.

Those are really needed these days.

The foil companies must be making bank. I can't stand at a bus stop or walk through downtown Portland without seeing drug use. People with foil, bĺue pills and a straw blow their smoke right in your face. It happened why I was next to a daycare!

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Forest Ballerinas

I love people who see and create art medium on random things..

This is cute. Now do one where they are UFOs

This is the one case where vandalism is accepted

Degas' day in the woods

The one on the top right looks like Natalie Portman....

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Always Carry a Sharpie

Life doesn't have enough whimsy. This helps. ;D

Annoyed post is annoyed.

My mom when she catches me in the pantry at 1am:

That pole has seen some s**t

They should do this for subway barriers so that people don't jump them.

This would make me smile every time I went by.

Whatcha lookin at huh?!

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Does It Count??

😅🤣😂 well played, whoever you are. 👍

As someone from Perth, I think this is great!

Someone did that with Luton and Gatwick last year 😂

Yeah, he said he got the idea from a guy in Milwaukee Wisconsin US. At least 30 or 40 years ago this guy code to the airport in Milwaukee painted welcome to Cleveland in huge letters on his roof. Both cities in great lakes are of the US, not super far from each other. At first especially, people freaked out, like thought they got on wrong plane

Wait, have I been living in Sydney this whole time???...

Why would it be scaring passengers? I'd just laugh

Because Perth is 4000km (2485 miles) west of Sydney. The other side of Australia.

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Y’all didn't hear about the new book in the series? Odd...

It's book 9 3/4 in the series.

In the US it was called “Harry Potter and the Pack of Trojans.”

May the Grand Wizard of P choose not to have maintenance clean this sign.

You would think the symbol would be a lightning bolt.

Amusing but this one seems more harmful to the company that owns that sign

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Damn Squirrels !

They do!!!

Finally! It's about time someone called out those cheating squirrels!

I'm a squirrel and that is NOT TRUE!! Well... mostly

I’m sure you must have cheated once

yea, once i was playing d&d with a squirrel and just as he was about to roll, i gave him the dice and he shoved it in his mouth and took off! he still won... but thats not the point!

Must be related to those big cats with spots on them.

True! They’re not very good at card games either.

Never play Texas Hold Em with a squirrel. Cheaters!

i was playing monopoly wiht them one night and i got the dark blues and the greens. the squirrel jumps on broadwalk and i thought i won he had 20 dollars last time i checked but all of sudden a 500 is in his hand and one 500 is missing from the bank. I KNOW HE STOLE BUT I CANT PROVE IT. never playing with them again

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Happy Valentine’s Day

somebody needs to buy me this 🥺

This would sell a lot more products than the original. I can't think of anyone to give the box to, but now that it's been improved, I know of dozens.

I resemble that remark

I had to buy this for myself, thereby validating the message

Lol my gf and me

Haha I'd buy it

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Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. No-one knows who put it up or why, apparently. Funny though.

its kinda wholesome to me

I would guess its for artists using pencils to draw the ocean

It's amazingly impressive that they got plaques.

Now this is where I draw the line

Apparently an ongoing thing / art installation / whatever in UK:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/mystery-surrounds-pencil-sharpeners-spotted-around-portobello-2543644

Coming upon an unexpected absurdity is what I want in my life.

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Thank You For Your Service

It wasn't worth watching anymore after Radar left.

I liked both, Radar and Klinger. I loved the whole Series. M*A*S*H. The younger ones: just google it!!!

Aww, that's the scene where Radar salutes Lt Col. Blake when he leaves.

That’s a sad picture. When Col. Blake died.

Suicide is painless.

Before any of you youngin's down vote, this was the name of the song that played over the opening credits of MASH

Aww loved radar

Anyone who gets it is just showing their age

How many people under a certain age are going to get this?

A lot. It's regularly run on basic cable and available for streaming.

An oldie, but a goodie. Having flashbacks of MASH.

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More to come.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

 

POETRY SPOT

Back in 1642, a poet by the name of Richard Lovelace penned a work called “To Althea, From Prison”. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey due to his effort to have the Clergy Act 1640 annulled. Lovelace is best remembered for 2 lines from the final stanza of the poem:

“Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage”

The lines mean that it takes more than physical limits to imprison a person's mind or soul. Stone walls and iron bars may prevent a person from moving freely in their body, but if they can still love freely whoever they want, and have free emotions and let their thoughts fly free, then in heart, mind and soul - they are free. the poet seems to believe that these latter freedoms are more important.

That would probably be of great comfort to inmates at Long Bay and Silverwater.

I mention all of this because I came across the lines quoted in another poem:

A Home Song

by Henry van Dyke

I turned an ancient poet's book,

And found upon the page:

"Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage."

Yes, that is true, and something more:

You'll find, where'er you roam,

That marble floors and gilded walls

Can never make a home.

But every house where Love abides,

And Friendship is the guest,

Is surely home, and home, sweet home,

For there the heart can rest.

It seems to me that van Dyke’s words –

That marble floors and gilded walls

Can never make a home –

make more sense than iron bars and stone walls not making a prison.

By the way, Henry van Dyke (1852 – 1933) was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.

One of van Dyke's best-known poems is titled "Time Is". The second section of this poem was read at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales:

Time is

Too slow for those who Wait,

Too swift for those who Fear,

Too long for those who Grieve,

Too short for those who Rejoice,

But for those who Love,

Time is not.

The poem is also known as "For Katrina's Sundial" because it was composed to be an inscription on a sundial in the garden of an estate owned by his friends Spencer and Katrina Trask.

The above is the original poem; some versions have "Eternity" in place of "not."

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