Well, it’s Tuesday and I’m way behind. 

At least I think it’s Tuesday. It has been one heck of a couple of four days…five days.  I’m not even sure anymore. 

The air show was a success … at least from an Emergency Management perspective.  One minor act of attempted stupidity that I can’t/won’t talk about. A LOT of people who shouldn’t have been out on a hot concrete pad, unprepared for several hours and paid for it that kept our medical boys and girls busy.

One heart attack that got airlifted out and another that should have gotten airlifted but we didn’t have a second chopper. They both survived.

No crashes and traffic moved extraordinarily smoothly. 

Some funny calls.  We had a lady who tried to direct traffic on the way out of the show on Sunday afternoon who refused to go back to her car. That one cracked me up.

Anyway, how about a couple of quick pictures of the show? I didn’t get many, I was busy putting out fires all weekend, then let’s get on with our regular episode.

Early friends and family crowds on Friday

Yes, that last one is as close as it looks. Any of you familiar with the Thunder Birds know of the jump scare where the one jet comes screaming up from behind the crowd at some point during the show.  Well, I was ready for him and snapped a really good shot. He’s probably only a couple of hundred feet off the ground.

It’s true. I found out after the air show that a whole group of friends of mine from another church had been praying all weekend for a safe and secure show. I thanked my friend profusely with tears in my eyes.

Okay, right here is the perfect place to include some commentary.  First of all, an email from a loyal reader and friend, Vincent who writes:

Just received this from a pal……..so true

I think that Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is pointless and stupid. Although I kinda get a chuckle about it if I’m being honest!😎

Wanna know what else I think is dumb?

The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether.

Here’s a list of some in case you forgot:

• Washington Redskins ➡️ Commanders

• Cleveland Indians ➡️ Guardians

• Stanford Indians ➡️ Cardinals

• Loudoun County Raiders ➡️ Captains

• Edmonton Eskimos ➡️ Elks

• Columbus Day ➡️ Indigenous Peoples’ Day

• Lee–Jackson Day ➡️ eliminated

• Robert E. Lee High School ➡️ John Lewis High

• Jefferson Davis Highway ➡️ Richmond Highway 

• Mount McKinley ➡️ Denali 

• Fort Bragg ➡️ Fort Liberty

• Fort Hood ➡️ Fort Cavazos

• Boy Scouts of America ➡️ Scouting America

• Aunt Jemima ➡️ Pearl Milling Company

• Uncle Ben’s Rice ➡️ Ben’s Original

• Eskimo Pie ice cream bars ➡️ Edy’s Pie

• Land O’Lakes ➡️ removed the Indian, but kept the land

• Illegal alien ➡️ undocumented worker

• Hispanic ➡️ Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use)

• Mother ➡️ birthing person

• Anchor baby ➡️ child of noncitizens

• black ➡️ Black

• Breastfeeding ➡️ chest feeding

• Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon ➡️ justice-involved person

• Ex-con / ex-felon ➡️ returning citizen

• “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct 

• Fat ➡️ plus-sized

• Master bedroom ➡️ primary bedroom

• Manhole ➡️ utility hole

And so on and so on. . .

I agree with ALL of that. I think the renaming of the Lake to the Lake of America and the Gulf to the Gulf of America is complete and udder nonsense. But, I also agree that my dear departed father-in-law was a mailman and not a mailperson!  Since when have we become so STUPIDLY childish over such things? 

Dumb!

Just Dumb!

Go past the next two memes for the answer.

That was only 1!

That’s better. That was two. Now, what’s missing? R. R is missing. What’s the R for? Reverse!

Oh so very, very true!

I LOVED that show!!!!

Please Lord, PLEASE!

And she’s still going to kill you.

I’ve tried to use the same theory so many times, but no one will let me!

Before we wrap this one up, here are some “professional” pictures that our Public Affairs guys out at the base took at the Air Show.

Okay….

So, a little better than mine.

But they had real cameras, I had my iPhone. 

But that’s it for today my friends. I’m glad I got this one done. I’ve got Jail tomorrow, and FBI on Thursday, so I’ll try to put together an issue for Saturday and Monday. But, I have this weekend off and Monday is Labor Day or Memorial Day or something (I’m really tired) so I’ll try and get ahead AND do something with Holly this weekend. Be well my dear, dear friends.

It’s 530 in the morning on Saturday and I thought I’d throw some pictures from yesterday’s friends and family day from my phone your way.

This is not a regular post since it’s coming from my phone and being typed out one finger tap at a time, but let’s see if I can get some pictures for you.

That’s it for now my friends.

Got to get to work for the real air show starting today.

Cheers!

Impish

Well, if I can get this one done in time, it will be for Saturday and then maybe the only one I will miss is Monday.  But, if I can’t get this done in the next hour or so, I will set up what I have and call it good. How does that sound to you guys?

I have a late meeting with Thunder Bird 8 on Tuesday.

Jail on Wednesday.

FBI on Thursday.

Family Day on Friday.

Air Show on Saturday and Sunday.

Yeah … not looking good for Monday’s episode or perhaps even Impish Survival. But, we can all hold out hope, can’t we. 🙂 

Anyway, let’s get this party STARTED!

Well, no kidding!

Remember the other day when I talked about people reselling some of the things that were given away at the giveaway (boy, that’s an awkward sentence)? Here’s what Joe had to say about that:

Impish,

Anyone that takes items meant for the needy and sells them for profit  is

really tempting Karma!

    …Joe

Joe, I agree 100%, brother!

What a great quote!

Another case of, “Gee, I don’t understand why I didn’t get the job.”

 

I LOVE THIS ONE!!!

All the friggin’ time!

That just screams, “Lookin’ for that Puddy Cat!”

He’s tasting you.  I swear my dog does the same thing to me. As soon as I taste like pizza crust, I’m a dead man.

That one seems kind of unnecessary. But then again, with some of the headlines I’ve seen in the news lately. Never mind.

That’s it my dear friends. 

And this is also the very last plea for donations. It’s the end of the month. It’s all over with. The next episode that comes out … probably next Thursday. If I put anything out on Monday, it might be something quick that I throw together tomorrow night (Tuesday).  Thursday’s episode will be full of pictures of the air show…or my eulogy. In the mean time my friends, be blessed, stay frosty, and be full of LOVE! 

Wow!

Just … Wow!

Two-thousand, five-hundred episodes of Dragon Laffs.

I should retire right there.

Take a bow…exit stage right.

But you know I’m not going to.

We’re gonna build on that! Gonna keep going! But, man!  What a milestone. A quarter of a million. Nice. And it’s all been because of you guys. You did it. All I do is collect the stuff that you guys submit. Add my two-cents in here and there. Speaking of two-cents … are we going to have to change that saying now that we don’t do cents anymore? “I just added my nickel in…” Doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? “Just added my two-bits” my work because nobody knows what a “bit” is. 

I know…it’s a one or a zero in binary language. That’s not the kind of “bit” we’re talking about here! Knock it off! 

Here’s Google AI’s explanation: The phrase “two bits” originates from colonial American history and the use of the Spanish dollar, or “piece of eight,” which was divided into eight smaller units called reales. Because each single real was worth one-eighth of the coin, two pieces equaled a quarter of a dollar, giving us the enduring slang term for 25 cents. Most users on Quora agree that this physical cutting of coins to make change drove the widespread adoption of the term. 

It also says that they actually used to take chisels and cut them into pieces.  So, yeah, putting in my two-bits won’t work either since that’s a derogatory term for something that’s worthless. But, then again, most peoples opinion is as well, so there’s that.

Anyway, 2500 episodes, issues (yeah, I have AT LEAST 2500 issues! [insert rimshot here!]) Thank you all so very much for your kind patronage.  May we all have another 2500 in front of us. Let’s see, we just celebrated 20 years in June, so another 2500 is roughly another 20 years … we got this! 

To another 2500 and another 20 years!

Not that we would EVER advocate for something like that … but if anyone out there tries this at home, I know a dragon or three who would LOVE to know the results. Ummm, asking for a friend.

ALL THE TIME!!!

THAT’S the kind of attitude I need to foster!

I have no idea why the job interview went poorly.

This is WAY cool!

Such a sad picture…

Adorable!

It’s not bad, it’s terrible! Izzy showed me an example from an AI lesson plan from Kentucky where the periodic table didn’t have a single solidary element correct and a map of the United States where most, if not all of the states were spelled incorrectly. When are we going to realize that we are selling ourselves downstream to incompetent convenience!

And that’s it my friends. Another one in the box and ready to go. I’m going to try to put another one together before the Air Show, so one more push for donations, although at this point, I’m pretty sure we’re done.  But, I’ll put it out there. Go to dragonlaffs.com in the upper right hand column and hit the donate button. Or write to me at impishdragon@dragonlaffs.com and we can talk about snail mail or any other ways to donate that you might think of. So, until next time.

So, it’s now 12 hours later than I started the last Dragon Laffs. And I’m trying to get Monday’s episode set up for you guys since I have a full weekend set up for Holly and I since it will be the last weekend prior to hell week starting.

No, it’s not like that at all!

Late this morning to this afternoon we are going to volunteer at a church that she helps at with a giveaway that they do once a month. They have a big basement area so they take in donations and stuff and once a month they open the doors and give stuff away to people who need it. Kind of like Goodwill but without the money and without the controversy. 

As you can imagine, from what I’m told, there are people who try to take advantage of it. It’s supposed to be for the people who NEED it and yet they have people who take an item and resell it on eBay. It’s supposed one or two items from certain rooms per family and people try to take advantage of that as well. It’s mostly run by sweet, little old ladies so they were pretty happy when an ancient blue dragon volunteered to help.

Then this evening, my church is hosting the Scally Brothers for a night of singing and worshiping at the local high school auditorium.  I’ll see if I can’t find a YouTube clip. We had them last year for a teen thing and they went over really well.

Tomorrow, Sunday, is a special church service at a quarry with her church and then she has tickets for a concert in Wabash Sunday night that I don’t know about that were given to her by friends who can’t make it and don’t want to see the tickets go to waste.

I haven’t been this busy with non-work, fun stuff in a long time. Wish me well my friends.

Now…

I should really go through and hunt through the hundreds, if not thousands of meme files I have and collect all the interspersed “I’ll bet he’s thinking about other women” memes and run them all in a row!

Seems like I already ran this one, but I’m going to run it again with possibly the same caveat as before … Women pay attention! Don’t settle for less than you are worth…and don’t value yourself lower than you are.

One of my all time favorites.

“Don’t piss off old people. 

The older we get the less life in jail is 

a deterrent”.

And that’s it. I made it. Whew! Welcome to Monday, welcome to hell week. Wish me luck to get to the other side! Hope to see you on Thursday, but I guess we’ll see then. Still a little time left to contribute, if you are of such a mind. August is almost over. Until next time, my love to you all. Peace and happiness to each of you until then.