Walt Mankowski

So what are your dinner plans for tonight—BBQ or tacos?

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine

(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)

Fix a misspelling or some punctuation and now you're party to it as well!

Wait until she finds out about how Indians treat cows!

PLUG North meeting November 11 at 7:00 PM at SkySwitch - adam^ on "IPv6 for Build-Your-Own router and Homelab"

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This talk is going to be a lot of fun!

I’ll be in downtown Brooklyn tonight. I’m looking forward to seeing all the new minarets going up!

Congratulations to my brother-in-law Brian, who won his election tonight and is now on the Upper Darby Township Council!

Middlesex is sure taking its good sweet time!

A red, white, and blue sign is stuck in a small patch of ground between a bench and the sidewalk. It looks like an American-style campaign sign, but the text reads "Presidents are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever." Above it is a smaller sign that reads "Take a plant. Leave a plant."

Thought for today:

I've been to 12. I'm not counting Miami, Denver, or Phoenix since I was just on the outskirts and/or had a layover at the airport. I'm especially not counting Dallas since DFW is roughly the size of PEI.

The Steelers have the best regular uniforms, so it's only fair that they have the worst throwbacks.

Ghost runners are actual ghosts.

You just invented cricket!

Heliograph (@Heliograph@mastodon.au) Attached: 1 image #apropos #louvre #museums

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For me some health issues plus corns led to a more sedentary summer than usual, plus I think I might've pulled something at a ham radio meetup last weekend.

Very wise! It wasn't really many more steps than I do on days I commute into NYC, but I'm not usually on my feet for 2 1/2 straight hours. I hit the wall by the time we got to Independence Hall.

I think I've reached an age where I should ideally spend about half an hour doing stretches before attempting even a short protest march.

A picture of Liverpool striker Mo Salah with his arms raised after scoring a goal

The only king I recognize is the Egyptian King #nokings

Guy’s got to make a buck. Honestly I thought he’d be charging more!

The guy selling Philadelphia Soft Pretzel Factory pretzels in the middle of the crowd at City Hall was pure Philly! 🥨

Saw elsewhere, original source unknown:

"Sure, Shohei Ohtani has hit some big home runs, but I don't think you can call him an elite batter when he's never even had a hit against a great pitcher like Shohei Ohtani."

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Harsh. But probably true.

Everyone in Philly loves this play. We won a Super Bowl with this play!

You choose the books. The students bring the snacks!

So ... Catholic *traditionalists* want a pope who doesn't involve himself in global politics?

I was wearing my #Phillies cap in the supermarket and was accosted by a man of a certain age.
"He shoulda thrown to first! Instead he threw to first and dey lost!"
"Yes, I…"
"I'm a lifetime Yankees fan. I hate da Dodgers!"
"I'm a lifetime Phillies fan. I hate the Dodgers AND the Yankees!"

A woman just came into my local Starbucks wheeling a stroller shaped like a blue racecar. She did not, however, have a small child with her. I was puzzled by this until I realized the stroller had multiple cup holders. She got two drinks, loaded them on the stroller, and walked back home. Brilliant!

A small pair of bunny ears poke up out of the grass and brush along the side of a road

Bun alert! 🐰 ‼️

It’s a beautiful day for a bike ride. I’m doing ham radio support for the MS 150 in South Jersey