The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    THE END IS NEAR!!

    By Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 11:49am |

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    A week from tomorrow, it will be 10/10/10.

    The tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the new millenium.

    Ominous?

    I am sure God is attempting to tell me something.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxr-fbtV1-8

    A little over four years ago I decided to prepare for the end of things.

    I mean I have always thought of myself as D-Day. And four years ago it was 6/6/6. And it was D Day. Thank the Good Lord I was only 56 at the time and not 66.

    The more I thought about it though, six is not that ominous a number.

    But ten, ten is an ominous number.

    I mean we have ten fingers and ten toes (well I have 11 but that is a subject for another post).

    By my age you end up with about ten teeth.

    And there are ten planets in our solar system—if you count Pluto and the one we have not discovered yet.

    Most of the world has accepted the metric system.

    We keep track of our books pursuant to the Dewey Decimal System.

    Loudness is figured in Decibels.

    Most of us like our meat tender.

    And just think about this. If you wonder about numbers there is a Book of Numbers in the Bible and Verse 10, Chapter 10 it says:

    If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

    Now there is a biblical verse that scares the hell out of me, anyway.  Trumpets are always scary enough, but trumpets over holocausts?

    And there are Ten Commandments and the movie The Ten Commandments is one scary movie. I mean Charlton Heston was scarier in that movie than Soylent Green and Soylent Green was one scary movie.

    The Roman Calendar had only ten months.

    David Letterman always, and I mean always renders the TOP TEN thingies of the day.

    And David Letterman is the tenth greatest late night talk show host on CBS of all time.

    And everybody wants to know the top ten best selling songs, the top ten best selling books, the top ten best selling movies and the top ten best I Love Lucy shows.

    And what about the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list?

    AA does not work because it is a twelve step program, but I digress. I mean why do they not have a ten step program for chrissakes?

    There are 50 states in the Union and that’s 5 X 10.

    There are 100 senators in the United States Senate and that’s 10 X 10.

    (There are 435 voting members of the House of Representatives but I am still working that out!)

    Our country is about Ten Trillion Dollars in debt and that is 10 X 1,000,000,000,000 and that is a lot of debt!!!

    Tennis is an awesome sport! I mean who ever hear of sixes?

    Tennessee is an awesome state!!!

    The Minnesota Gopher football team is a member of the Big Ten Conference—although there are 11 teams, which is probably why we have not done so well the last 60 years or so.

    And Minnesota is the Land of Ten Thousand lakes. People who live in Wisconsin calls them ponds but then again Badgers are strange creatures.

    At any rate I am really scared about what is going to happen next Sunday, so I have prepared myself for the worst.

    I have purchased and store up the following:

    Ten cans of kidney beans

    Ten cans of tomato soup

    Ten bottles of Jameson

    Ten bags of potato chips

    Ten packages of Alka Seltzer

    Ten rolls of Bounty

    Ten rolls of quarters.

    Ten cans of frozen orange juice.

    Ten cartons of cigs.

    Ten lighters.

    Ten boxes of Kleenex.

    …

    Well you get the idea.

    Preparation is everything!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa33P9A5iHs

     

    Comments

    Really funny stuff, DDay! I love it!

    "And there are ten planets in our solar system—if you count Pluto and the one we have not discovered yet."

    Thanks for this laugh on a nice, autumnal Saturday. Go Badgers!

    10-4. Over and out.


    by SleepinJeezus on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 12:03pm

    I hope your week end is awesome Sleepin!!


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 12:11pm

    For godssakes, Mr. Day.  Do not forget ten rolls of toilet paper!  It is absolutely the most crucial item on any end of the world shopping list.


    by wabby on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 12:16pm

    Well if I ran out for some reason, I still have my Bounty and Kleenex!!!

    haahaha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 12:18pm

    Maybe you should include ten ears of corn.


    by Resistance on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 10:12pm

    A tentative quick impression of your blog, DD, though certainly not to say my first impression.
     Not to be tendentious tenderfoot, though the tenor of my comment may seem so, but my tentative conclusion is that your thesis is highly tenuis and your obsession with ten is not tenable. It indicates a tendency towards a mental tension based on the powers of superstitions whose tenets have lost legitimate tenure.  The powers of ten, awesome as they are, can be broken by a tithe of a tenth which breaks the spell.  Once done there are left only nines and no matter the number of nines they never add up to ten. Like eighteen adds to nine and twenty seven adds to nine as does thirty six, and on and on. I read it once in a book. Or maybe in the book, and I am ninety-nine percent sure that nine out of ten scholars agree.


    by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 12:57pm

    All righty then LULU!!

    I am forced to TENder the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of you from all of me. hahahasaha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 1:19pm

    Politics is a circus and circuses are held in tents!  OMG, your tenacious argument is an octopus, whose tentacles have far-reaching effects!

    (Thanks for the laughs, Mr. Day.)

       


    by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 1:47pm

    Any time Mr. Smith, any time. And really, when you think about it, why are not octopi known as tentopi?


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 1:58pm

    Awards are back!  Yay!


    by Michael Maiello on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 2:34pm

    I dont know, I should have given you blog of the day several times already Destor!!!


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 2:46pm

    Maybe you are onto something DD  

    Adam born in autumn, around October 1  4026 B.C.E.

    Noah entered the Ark,  October/November

    Day of atonement, Tishri 10. September/October  High priest made sacrifices to cleanse from sins. 

    Under inspiration, Daniel told Belshazzar what the writings MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN meant and on October 5, 539 B.C.E, Babylon the third world power came to an end.

     

    October,  SURPRISE???


    by Resistance on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 4:33pm

    Hey Resistance. Just so it's not a November surprise!!!


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 4:58pm

    A November surprise is when the relitives you can't stand and purposely did not give your new address to, show up for Thanksgiving anyway.


    by cmaukonen on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 9:00pm

    Or when Boner ends up Speaker. ahahahah


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 9:05pm

    The republicans are in the kitchen having a 2nd amendment fight over the constitution when the crazy dog broke from it's leash out back and is now running through the election garden.  Next door the democrats are hiding under the bed making plans on how they will clean up the mess and bury the bodies after the shooting stops.  You just might have something there with your 10-10-10.   My money is on the ones under the bed.     


    by trkingmomoe on Sun, 10/03/2010 - 2:19am

    Well Momoe, you got me laughing at this metaphor.

    According to recent articles, the Dems still have a chance.


    by Richard Day on Sun, 10/03/2010 - 3:39am

    There;s an old saying in Minnesota

    When there's frost on the pumpkin, it's time for Peter Dunkin

    But lets hope there's no Boner in Nvembr

     

     


    by Resistance on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 10:10pm