ETYMOLOGY OF WORDS AND PHRASES – PART 8

Education, Entertainment, History, Mysteries 5 Minutes

Continuing my etymology series, today I am focusing only on some common phrases. If you have any phrases you are curious about, hit me up and I’ll see what I can find for you. Enjoy!!!

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

This proverb, like many others, warns against taking risks. It suggests that you should keep what you have and not risk losing it by going after more. The allusion may be to falconry where a bird in the hand (the falcon) was a valuable asset and certainly worth more than two in the bush (the prey).

This proverbial saying is first found in English in John Capgrave’s “The Life of St Katharine of Alexandria, 1450”: “It is more sekyr [certain] a byrd in your fest, Than to haue three in the sky a‐boue.”

John Heywood’s 1546 glossary “A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue” also includes a variant of the proverb: Better one byrde in hande than ten in the wood. The 7th century Aramaic “Story of Ahikar” has text that modern translations render as “Better is a sparrow held tight in the hand than a thousand birds flying about in the air.”

Cat got your tongue?

The origin of the phrase ‘has the cat got your tongue?’ isn’t known. What is certain is that it isn’t derived as a reference to the cat o’ nine tails or people’s tongues being fed to cats in ancient Egypt. Both of these have been suggested and there’s no shred of evidence to support either of them.

‘Cat got your tongue?’ is the shortened form of the query ‘Has the cat got your tongue?’ and it is the short form that is more often used. It is somewhat archaic now but was in common use until the 1960/70s. It was directed at anyone who was quiet when they were expected to speak, and often to children who were being suspiciously unobtrusive.

There’s no derivation that involves any actual cat or celebrated incident of feline theft. Like the blackbird that ‘pecked off his nose’, the phrase is just an example of the light-hearted imagery that is, or was, directed at children.

The expression sounds as though it might be old but isn’t especially so. There are no instances of it in print until the mid 19th century. The early examples of the expression in print all come from the USA, which reinforces the falsity of the Egyptian or Royal Navy origins.

Hell’s bells

The exclamation ‘Hell’s bells’ has been used in both the UK and the USA since at least the mid-19th century. The earliest example of it in print that can be found is from the weekly London sporting newspaper “The Era,” February 1840. The rather fanciful story concerned a character who had stolen his friend’s partridges and replaced them with pigeons, claiming them to be ptarmigan.

There’s no reason to look for any special meaning of Hell’s bells – it doesn’t refer to diabolical campanology – the ‘bells’ are added just for the rhyme. It is an uncommon phrase in that, as well as being an example of reduplication, it is also a minced oath. Adding ‘bells’ was simply a way of uttering the oath ‘Hell’ and making it sound acceptable in polite company.

The expression is often extended by other evocative but meaningless additions. In the UK this is often ‘Hell’s bells and buckets of blood’ and, in the USA, ‘Hells bells and little fishes’ or ‘Hells bells and a bunch of parsley’. There are many other variants, in fact almost anything can be added to ‘Hell’s bells…’ as there’s no requirement for the addition to make sense.

Hold a candle

The expression ‘can’t hold a candle to’ refers to someone who compares badly to an known authority – to be unfit even to hold a subordinate position. Apprentices used to be expected to hold the candle so that more experienced workmen were able to see what they were doing. Someone unable even to do that would be of low status indeed.

Sir Edward Dering used a similar phrase ‘to hold the candle’ in his “The fower cardinal-vertues of a Carmelite fryar,” 1641: “Though I be not worthy to hold the candle to Aristotle.”

‘To hold a candle’ is first recorded in 1883 in William Norris’s “No New Thing:” “Edith is pretty, very pretty; but she can’t hold a candle to Nellie.”

Raise Cain

Cain was the first murderer according to scriptural accounts in the Bible – Genesis 4 and in the Qur’an – 5:27-32.

The biblical account, from the King James’ Version, tells of how Cain and Abel, the two sons of Adam and Eve, bring offerings to God, but only Abel’s is accepted. Cain kills Abel in anger and is cursed by God.

The transitive verb ‘to raise’ has been used since at least the 14th century to mean ‘to conjure up; to cause a spirit to appear by means of incantations’. Geoffrey Chaucer made use of that meaning in “The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale,” circa 1395:

I haue yow told ynowe To reyse a feend al looke he neuere so rowe.

In Modern English – [I have told you enough already to raise a fiend, look he never so savage.]

If you make trouble you are raising, that is, conjuring up, the accursed spirit of Cain. This is similar to several phrases that allude to calling-up or ‘raising’ the Devil. There’s ‘raise the Devil’ of course and also ‘raise hob’ and ‘raise hell’.

The phrase is American and is first found there in the late 19th century; for example, this little pun on the word ‘raised’ from the St. Louis’ “Daily Pennant,” May 1840: “Why have we every reason to believe that Adam and Eve were both rowdies? Because they both raised Cain.”

A picture is worth a thousand words

This phrase emerged in the USA in the early part of the 20th century. Its introduction is widely attributed to Frederick R. Barnard, who published a piece commending the effectiveness of graphics in advertising with the title “One look is worth a thousand words”, in “Printer’s Ink,” December 1921. Barnard claimed the phrase’s source to be oriental by adding “so said a famous Japanese philosopher, and he was right.”

Printer’s Ink printed another form of the phrase in March 1927, this time suggesting a Chinese origin: “Chinese proverb. One picture is worth ten thousand words.”

The arbitrary escalation from ‘one thousand’ to ‘ten thousand’ and the switching from Japan to China as the source leads us to smell a rat with this derivation. In fact, Barnard didn’t introduce the phrase – his only contribution was the incorrect suggestion that the country of origin was Japan or China. This has led to another popular belief about the phrase that it was coined by Confucius. It might fit the Chinese-sounding ‘Confucius he say’ style, but the Chinese derivation was pure invention.

A similar idea was seen very widely in the USA from the early 20th century, in adverts for “Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills,” which included a picture of a man holding his back and the text “Every picture tells a story.”

Neither of the above led directly to ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Who it was that married ‘worth ten thousand words’ with ‘picture’ isn’t known, but we do know that the phrase is American in origin. It began to be used quite frequently in the US press from around the 1920s onward. The earliest example found is from the text of an instructional talk given by the newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane to the “Syracuse Advertising Men’s Club,” in March 1911:

“Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.”

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          1. it’s currently 50* here…so I am going to try to get to the post office this morning. the driveway looks good, but with the warmer weather, it’s a mystery how high the stream will be…we’ll see

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      1. Honestly – I’m not sure. Sally’s Dad seems better in some respects. She’s not better. She will be OK for a few days – then an eruption….or a new comfort or care procedure problem emerges. A progressive disease means adapting to change, trying to overcome a continual stream of different problems.

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        1. you have the patience of a saint!
          you are a very caring and loving parent!
          my sister developed MS soon after her marriage but it didn’t become debilitating till much later. when it did, my brother-in-law carried her from the car into the house, from the bed into the bathtub, and everywhere her wheelchair wouldn’t fit.
          after she passed, his back was a mess, but he never complained…he was special–like you are.

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  16. Citizen 817
    January 4, 2023 12:21 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    16h
    “Lawyer claims that the Department of Justice is hiding hundreds of records on Hunter and Jim Biden.” Maria Bartiromo. These records lead to, and implicate, Joe Biden and the many millions of dollars that have been stolen over the years. Why isn’t the Radical Left DOJ, and the Corrupt, Election Changing DBI (Democrat Bureau of Investigation), coming “CLEAN?” After 7 years of investigations on me, and even Spying on my Campaign, they found NOTHING! How about spending some time and effort on Joe?

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  20. EXCERPT: “Dorrian Glenn, Hamlin’s uncle, told a CNN reporter on-site Tuesday night that Hamlin was resuscitated twice — once on the field and once at the hospital. He also said Hamlin has lung damage but called it “a good sign” that Hamlin is breathing using only 50 percent of a ventilator, down from 100 percent Monday, according to a Syracuse.com report.”

    ““He’s fighting,” Jordon Rooney, Hamlin’s friend and marketing representative, said during a “Good Morning America” appearance. “He’s a fighter.”

    Hamlin received CPR on the field from medical professionals who were able to restart his heartbeat in a life-or-death scenario. Rooney said Hamlin was “awake” before he was “sedated” to put a breathing tube in his throat at the hospital.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/01/03/bills-damar-hamlin-resuscitated-twice-says-uncle-ventilator-usage-down/

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  21. hmmmmmmmmm…is that why jeb was at his inauguration?

    Conspiracy? Reality!
    January 4, 2023 8:55 am

    After seeing Ron’s inauguration yesterday, a disgusting idea popped in my head which read “Desantis/Jeb! ’24”.. Kinda like Reagan and Poppy Bush! …. Spit!

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  22. EXCERPT: “A decade in the making, the conservative-led revolt that thwarted Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to be Speaker on three consecutive votes Tuesday isn’t likely to stop in the House as those eager to disrupt the GOP’s status quo also have set their sights on Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

    Some of the 20 House members who helped deprive McCarthy of the Speaker’s gavel on Tuesday said the votes should serve as a wakeup call to GOP leaders everywhere that the party needs to return to its roots of fiscal conservatism after two decades of reckless spending in Washington.

    “In our mind, and so many people’s minds, spending is out of control,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told the Just the News, No Noise television show Tuesday night. “[Either] we’ll face it now, or just sit here until we come up with some type of solution and a leader that will fight.”
    —————-
    McCarthy lost 19 GOP defectors on each of the first two votes Tuesday, then fared even worse in the third tally when Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., flipped his support from McCarthy to Rep. Jim Jordan.

    Jordan, R-Ohio, has said he doesn’t want the speakership and actually gave an impassioned nomination speech on behalf of McCarthy earlier Tuesday.
    —————-
    A Rasmussen Report poll released this week found three-quarters of Republicans want McDaniel replaced and new leadership to steer the party in a different direction.

    “The failure of Kevin McCarthy to win on the first ballot reflects national unease among Republicans with the current leadership,” conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon told Just the News during a Tuesday phone call following the House floor drama. “We’ve seen it at the RNC, we’ve seen it in the Senate even though it didn’t result in a leadership challenge — I think it should have. And now we’re seeing it in the House.”

    Dhillon, an RNC committeewoman from California, is launching a challenge to McDaniel at the party meeting later this month.”

    [NF: Stuff it, Dhillon!!! When you bailed on Kari Lake in AZ, you bailed on ALL OF US!!! You can go pound sand, bitch!!!]

    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/conservative-revolt-against-mccarthy-poised-spread-others-gop-establishment

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    1. [NF: Stuff it, Dhillon!!! When you bailed on Kari Lake in AZ, you bailed on ALL OF US!!! You can go pound sand, bitch!!!]

      Agree! She’s got grifter written all over her. She’s gaming us…

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  23. “As Republicans launch new legal strikes, Arizona’s largest county says 4,849 ballots not counted —
    Abe Hamadeh seeks new trial, Kari Lake petitions Arizona Supreme Court.”

    EXCERPT: “Arizona Republican candidates Abe Hamadeh and Kari Lake have launched new legal maneuvers to contest the November election as the state’s largest county gave its most detailed explanation to date on why it did not count more than 4,800 provisional ballots cast two months ago. Hamadeh, the GOP’s attorney general nominee. on Tuesday filed a motion for a new trial after a Mohave County Superior Court judge dismissed his and the Republican National Committee’s election challenge just before Christmas.

    While Hamedeh lost Dec. 23, he forced into public new evidence of voting problems in Pinal County that even Arizona’s new Democrat secretary of state concedes was troubling. That new evidence is one focus of his request for a new trial. “Today, I am filing a ‘Motion for New Trial’ after the shocking revelations from the recount,” Hamadeh tweeted Tuesday. “It’s simple, if the judge allows us to inspect and count the ballots – we win. Kris Mayes will either resign or be removed from office. Count the votes accurately.”

    During Hamadeh’s lawsuit, vote total discrepancies in Pinal County were not brought to the attention of the judge, nor Hamadeh’s legal team, the attorney general candidate alleges.

    Regarding the vote count discrepancy, Hamadeh told Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk on The Charlie Kirk Show, that the judge in his case “was pushed around by the secretary of state, Katie Hobbs’, and Kris Mayes’ legal teams. That’s what I mean when I say I give Democrats credit. They intimidated this judge. They basically withheld information. They snookered him.”
    —————-
    Newly sworn-in Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said in a radio interview on Friday regarding Pinal County’s vote total discrepancy, “You know, the single digit differences are not unusual, but it is absolutely, it’s really problematic to see the number of ballots in Pinal County that were not tabulated.”

    “The folks down in Pinal County, particularly the Board of Supervisors and their election director back a year ago did not staff up,” Fontes added. “They did not fund up. They did not train and prepare for what they knew was going to happen.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/abe-hamadeh-seeks-new-trial-following-vote-total-discrepancy-kari-lake

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  24. EXCERPT: “We may never know the truth, as doctors around the country have intentionally stuck their head in the sand and ignored the reality of the dangerous health ramifications of these injections. They completely ignore the fact that there’s even a chance that the jabs could cause serious heart issues and professional athletes collapsing. “It must be something else.”

    This is where we, as truth-tellers, must continually point those around us back to the truth. In this instance, the truth is that Damar Hamlin’s injury was almost certainly not commotio cordis. It’s also a fact that hundreds, if not thousands, of professional athletes have collapsed on the field, some of them dying, at unprecedented rates since the rollout of the covid bioweapon injections.

    These bioweapons need to be taken off the market immediately. My concern is that we haven’t even begun to see the carnage coming from these injections. It starts with waking up everyone around us to the reality of just how dangerous these jabs are. Unfortunately, this was yet another opportunity to wake up the masses and even, potentially, help Damar Hamlin by alerting his doctors to the fact that this very well may be a serious adverse reaction from the covid jabs.

    We’re trying to save lives here, now is not the time to remain silent. If you want more in depth information on the bioweapon injections, I highly recommend you subscribe to Karen Kingston’s The Kingston Report. You can also tune into our weekly show In The Foxhole on Thursdays at 6pm ET on Rumble.

    In light of the fact that we are living in a world where governments are using bioweapons on its citizens, it’s more important now than ever to have a strong immune system. This means exercising, eating right and taking the right supplements. That’s why Dr Zelenko developed Z-Stack, Z-DTOX and Z-Flu. If you use code FREEDOM when you order you’ll get a discount. Click here to order.”

    https://jeffdornik.substack.com/p/was-commotio-cordis-a-misdirection

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  27. Well, I called the City to see when the trash would be picked up – I wasn’t surprised on Tuesday that they didn’t make it with the snow but they usually do it the next day. Nope – now it will have to wait until next week. She tried to say I can take it out to the transfer station myself – like I’m supposed to lift all that shit out of the bin (that THEY required), put it all in the back of my truck, and pay extra for the privilege??!!?? She then tried to say I should pull it back up to my garage and that I will NOT do!!! I’m not pulling it all the way back up to my garage thru the snow. So I told her it will sit right where it is until next Tuesday. Bite me if you don’t like it!!!

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      1. I think another Letter to the Editor is past due….not only that, but I put out my bin once a month, yet I pay the same amount as others (specifically, my neighbors across the street) who let their entire extended family bring THEIR trash over and put it in their bin, which is put out every week!!!!

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  28. sliding down…I made it back.
    the stream is ROARING…thank goodness the Jeep is high off the ground!!
    once i passed that, the rest of the ride into town was fine.
    at the post office, i found out i am not the only resident who couldn’t get off a hill to get to their mail…

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          1. the new post master has a white jeep–his is a 2020. he had something done to the hood (the blue and white stars of the flag) and the doors have the red and white stripes of the flag…I don’t want to call them decals, they are similar, but more like a wrap…???
            very sharp looking!

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  29. interesting… he signed his last letter before execution as Scott McLaughlin…
    entire article
    Missouri has put to death it’s 133rd prisoner and the first known openly transgender inmate in U.S. history.

    The prisoner, Amber McLaughlin, was executed for the 2003 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Beverly Guenther of suburban St. Louis. Guenther was McLaughlin’s ex-girlfriend.
    Amber McLaughlin (Photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Corrections)

    McLaughlin, 49, had a spiritual advisor in the room at the time of the execution. After five grams of pentobarbital was given to McLaughlin, the inmate did not show any visible signs of distress.

    McLaughlin was pronounced dead at 6:51 p.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

    McLaughlin left a final written statement and signed it with the name Scott McLaughlin.

    “I am sorry for what I did. I am a loving and caring person,” said McLaughlin.

    McLaughlin had been in prison since 2006.

    McLaughlin asked the Gov. Mike Parson to step in and block the execution. Parson declined the request.

    “McLaughlin’s conviction and sentence remains after multiple, thorough examinations of Missouri law. McLaughlin stalked, raped, and murdered Ms. Guenther. McLaughlin is a violent criminal,” Parson said in a news release. “Ms. Guenther’s family and loved ones deserve peace.”

    According to Missouri Department of Corrections spokesperson Karen Pojmann, 51 people who oppose the death penalty protested today at the prison. Two other protesters were there in support of the death penalty.

    Pojmann said McLaughlin’s body will be cremated, per McLaughlin’s request.

    https://www.missourinet.com/2023/01/03/breaking-missouri-executes-first-known-transgender-prisoner-in-u-s-history/

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  30. “Man of All the Years: Hunter Biden”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon: “Readers of this fine publication are well-versed in the fantastical misadventures of America’s First Son, Hunter Biden. Hunter was 2019’s Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year and probably should have been for all subsequent years. And as much as he’s earned this year’s award, we just can’t bring ourselves to cheapen the prize by awarding him another trophy to toss in the back of his closet, next to the double-headed dildos and anal beads.

    If we give him the title again, we’ll have to do it again in 2023, 2024, and beyond. Because we know in our hearts that Hunter Biden will never stop being awesome. He is the apex degenerate. Pure animal. No one is ever going to consistently bring the goods to the highly secretive Man of the Year selection committee at the pace Hunter Biden does, year after year. So we give up. No more deliberations, Hunter Biden is now and forever will be the Washington Free Beacon Man of All the Years.

    There was no stopping Hunter in 2022. The Laptop From Hell just keeps bringing the heat. There are crack smoking videos, the sex tape with the footjob, the texts and the emails and 10 percent to the Big Guy. The list goes on, and with the GOP poised to take power in the House of Representatives, 2023 is going to be another badass year for our boy.

    The Free Beacon has taken a lot of flak for these awards through the years—critics say we glorify the hedonism of our subjects and groom our readers for future derelict behavior. In some instances, they may have a point. So, for this year and for all the years to come, we’ll chart a different course for Hunter Biden. We are honoring Hunter’s finest virtues, his honesty and his compassion.

    Sure, Hunter may be selfish, but he’s also shown an enormous capacity for compassion. He convinced his father to federally fund crack pipe distribution centers across the country, giving his fellow crackheads easy access to drug paraphernalia to support their alternative lifestyles.

    For all his troubles, misdeeds, and failings, the man is also exceedingly honest. Like George Washington, he simply cannot tell a lie. Has he ever denied spending epic amounts of money on hookers and drugs? No. Did he lie about working for foreign interests and cutting his old man in on the profits? No. In fact, he pursued those unethical deals with vigor. He’s never once lied about being a full-on pervert with an unyielding thirst for action.

    Hunter Biden told the truth when he said he couldn’t remember leaving the Laptop From Hell at a Delaware repair shop. He said he was on a bender at the time. He told the truth when he said he had to make all the Biden family’s money and sock millions away for his old man. Hunter told the truth when it came to acknowledging the daughter he fathered with that exotic dancer, something his old man and stepmother still refuse to do.

    And when Hunter Biden texted his brother’s widow “I won’t come home to do anything but have sex,” he was telling the truth. Honesty is a quality in short supply here in the Swamp, so when Hunter Biden comes to D.C. to testify next year, we expect the truth to follow. Here’s to the compassionate, honest life, and here’s to Hunter Biden, the one and only Washington Free Beacon Man of All the Years.”

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  31. SATIRE
    “Biff Diddle’s Top Predictions for 2023 — Things have not gotten as stupid as they are going to get”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon: “Happy New Year, folks! If your 2022 was anything like mine, you’re still pretty embarrassed about the two rental cars you lost in Greater Reno, but also immensely grateful that authorities in many non-Western countries still accept bribes as an alternative to prison time or forced labor. In any event, I think we’re all ready for a clean slate, a new beginning.

    No one can be sure what 2023 has in store for us, but believe me when I tell you things have not gotten as f—d up as they are going to get. Here are my top predictions for the new year:

    1) President Joe Biden suffers a major fall, most likely while doing something stupid like making a TikTok video or attempting the Heisman pose in bowling shoes. He requires emergency surgery and is put under general anesthesia for several hours. In accordance with established precedent, Vice President Kamala Harris becomes “acting president” during that time. By the time Biden wakes up his entire cabinet has resigned, the stock market is down 40 percent, and Kamala’s stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has adorned the nuclear football in a garish crochet smock that is eventually sold at auction for $118,975.

    2) At least one major publication or news network is forced to settle a likely-to-prevail defamation lawsuit after reporting demonstrably false accusations of criminal conduct involving Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.). Former CNN host Brian Stelter invites the disgraced journalist who wrote the story on his new podcast, Reliable Courses, which he cohosts with Dan Rather and Guy Fieri at the Cheesecake Factory in Elmhurst, Queens.

    3) Mitt Romney grows the best-looking beard in the history of hair and becomes the most popular search term on the deepfake porn site Face Tube. The @RomneyBeard Twitter account amasses more than 800,000 followers before it is ultimately banned for posting anti-Semitic memes.

    4) Soccer becomes increasingly and insufferably popular in the United States as a result of the recent World Cup. As more children sign up to play, however, their obnoxious liberal parents become hysterically concerned about “headers” and potential brain injuries, prompting many school districts and rec leagues to require the use of padded helmets.

    5) Taylor Lorenz publishes a bombshell report about how a group of influencers known as the “Obesity Queens” are on a mission to #DestigmatizeFat. Lorenz praises the heroes for pushing back against the right-wing ableist agenda and highlights the success of their campaign to pressure Golden Corral restaurants to install wider doors and sturdier toilets.

    6) A prominent Democratic politician, most likely Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), is forced to resign following a dick pic scandal. CNN host Jim Acosta has to recuse himself from covering the story after one of the dick pic recipients files a paternity lawsuit against him.

    7) Donald Trump celebrates the second anniversary of the January 6 uprising by purchasing and demolishing Mike Pence’s childhood home in Indiana. After destroying the house, which is more than 100 miles from Pence’s actual childhood home, the demolition crew uncovers an elaborate network of underground tunnels operated by a shadowy cabal of flesh-eating pedophiles. The entire Deep State is implicated.

    Have a great one, everybody. Diddle out.”

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  47. “Leftist Who Keeps Taking COVID Tests Says He Can Quit Anytime”
    HEALTH · Jan 3, 2022 · BabylonBee.com

    “RICHMOND, VA – A local family held an impromptu intervention for their son, Richard Chag, 35, who has been taking up to 24 COVID tests a day.

    “I can quit anytime I want!” screeched Richard. “I’m not out of control! You’re all out of control! I’m going to cancel you from my room!”

    The family first became concerned after Richard’s nose fell off.

    “He said it was just a drug problem,” informed his mother, Olivia Chag. “But then I started to notice Q-Tips piling up in the trash. [My husband] never cleans his ears so I was immediately suspicious.”

    “I just don’t understand it,” admitted Richard’s father, George Chag. “I’m a proud Democrat. I sat him down to explain ‘the Covid and the bees,’ but I just wanted him to wear a mask when he drives – not go insane!”

    Though the initial intervention proved unsuccessful, his loving family isn’t giving up on him.

    “We’re trying to explain to him that this is an incredibly deadly virus and his life is never going to be the same again,” said his mother, Olivia Chag. “But then – I don’t know where I was going with this. Mask up, I guess.”

    “Right, mask up,” agreed his father, George Chag. “With at least three masks.”

    At publishing time, Richard Chag was rejected by a local rehab center due to a fever.”

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  48. hmmmmmmmmmmm

    Troublemaker10
    January 4, 2023 12:09 pm

    Charlie Kirk said his source tells him there would be a historic nomination for Speaker put on the floor today.

    Not sure what that means or what could rise to that level.

    However, I think Rep Norman also indicated something along the line that they had a consensus candidate to nominate soon.

    It almost sounds to me that not only Biggs, but Jordan too were placeholders.
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  50. Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    January 4, 2023 12:02 pm

    Becker News
    @NewsBecker

    Reporter: “You’re not attending Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral tomorrow, though. Why?”

    Joe Biden: “Well why do you think?

    Reporter: “You tell me.”

    Joe Biden: “You know why.”

    Video linked in tweet….

    Reporter: “You’re not attending Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral tomorrow, though. Why?”

    Joe Biden: “Well why do you think?

    Reporter: “You tell me.”

    Joe Biden: “You know why.” pic.twitter.com/IywYo4gktL

    — Becker News (@NewsBecker) January 4, 2023

    And

    because he’s barely Catholic and wasn’t invited. https://t.co/M7ON8G51P8

    — Katherine Trotter🇺🇸 (@KatATrotter) January 4, 2023

    *****

    Biden Won’t Represent U.S. At Benedict’s Funeral, Per ‘Wishes Of The Late Pope’

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-wont-represent-u-s-at-benedicts-funeral-per-wishes-of-the-late-pope

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