“Ok, we follow these people as the panhandle. Not poor people, no no, no! We get those x-celebs, maybe so older jocks. This is where it gets good…. You’ll love it. They sit on opposite sides of the freeway ramps, or wash windows with dirty rags, all the whole we raise money for chartity! The winner gets to talk strategy and what projects they are doing. The loser, we get cuts of people throwing things at them.. Maybe some trash talk between them too!” Mickey sketches on a note pad while he rambles.
He pauses to check a reaction. Nothing.
“Who doesn’t get a little weird about those beggars?! Now, we let them have good side. I mean what if I handed a five to someone famous and was on TV for everyone to see. It’ll work! They show people buying homes, emptying trash filled houses, making fish tanks out of cars, dancing… for god sake… Dancing?! Remember the celeb boxing?” Mickey keeps trying to sell the idea.
Minnie will have nothing to do with it.
Written as part of a challenge called Tale Weaver, https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/tale-weaver-97-unreality-tv-08-12-16/
Coloring Outside the Lines 
Mark, could you fix the link in the Mr. Linky? The ping back is fine, but in mr.linky, the url you put sends the clicker to my site selector, or Michael G’s site selector. Usually I can make corrections in Mr. Linky — like delete a link but Mr. Linky doesn’t like me, so I can’t delete the bad link and insert the correct one so folks can read your post. Sorry to be serious and such.
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I’ll use my phone. Mr IPad has only been in action about thirty hours and has created a fold in the taping space thing. Sorry about that
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ok i have created another link but couldn’t alter or delete original one. The hydra in Mr Linky, cut off a head two grow bsck
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Thanks for trying. Just weird. I don’t know how folks find the stories– linky, ping back or by follows. Mr. Linky hates me. So, don’t take his ire personally.
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The way Is confusing… Let’s just say the symptom of the universe is writing in your eyes. Mr linky tries to obscure that
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Great story, but your link doesn’t work — takes you strange places (why am I surprised?)
Thanks for playing along.
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I guess the link is a portal to the inner workings of my mind. I’m not sure you want to go there
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Actually, it goes/went to the inner workings of my mind which I can assure you is even scarier.
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I treat the inner mind much like Medusa. You never want to look directly at it.
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That, my dear, is an absolute truth.
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I understand better than I let on to sometimes. Or as the cat says “They are all mad here!”
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Actually seems to link to the inner workings of my mlmm stuff — how’d ya do that?
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There is an old saying about you only like sausage because you dont know how it’s made. It’s a little like that. No natural spirits were invoked so it’s not technically witchcraft.
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Were hard spirits such as bourbon involved? 🙂
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Bourbon is a relaxing mellow spirit. IT has a bit of a bite but nowhere near hard
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How about 150 proof rum or moonshine?
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150 proof is firewater. Moonshine is a little more pain in the throat. My limit is about 100 proof. If I can set it in fire,it’s not a,good idea.
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Since one fateful Christmas eve, I can’t drink any liquor straight up. Sad but true.
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I mix my bourbon with ginger ale and limeade. Drinking bourbon straight is not good on the liver.
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I rarely drink hard liquor, but when I do, it’s either vodka and tonic or gin and tonic with lime. The quinine helps keep malaria away.
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Definitely healthy choice. You don’t want to catch a bad case of Malaria!
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Reason my father started drinking G & T cause they kept sending him to Southeast Asia.
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I would say there was a very good reason for the choice in beverage. It was probably encouraged
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He was there 3 times and no malaria. Probably helped with other issues, too.
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I don’t think anything can help with three tours there!
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Korean 1952, Laos 1965, S. Vietnam 1972
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Not exactly the best times to be in those places. But best he came out well.
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No, not the best. But when your military, you go where they send you.
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He was a Canadian and member of NATO
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I’m not sure how much better they would have liked anyone in NATO
There is that little thing of trying to install a forced government by the US in Vietnam. And the whole afterthought of a war in Korea needing to be planned out
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Didn’t like NATO folks any better — Fought in the Korean War, and part of Pre-Paris Peace-Keeping Mission; Laos was also non-combat (sorta, I think)
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Any fighting in Laos was the result of US Air raids exceeding borders. It was used by both sides as an excuse to cross over the border
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That’s why I say sorta — I really don’t know exactly his role there — attached to the Canadian Embassy in some capacity.
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There were so many plots and sub plots on the cold war. I’m not sure anyone had all the answers
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My father was reticent and the official secrets act etc.
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You really probably don’t have a good time to discuss things like that with family
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What little I know about Korea ain’t pretty.
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There will never be anything you’ll learn pretty about it. It was the first line in the sand. And we thought if we showed up, week things would just be a cake walk. The western world came into the world wars late and never seen the full horrors. In Korea we met enemies fresh and more ready for a full blown war than ourselves.
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My father graduated from military college (in WWII, but only as far as Newfoundland then still a British colony). Interrupted education to join near end, so took offer to train as civil engineer. Good news — 1st graduating class post-WW2; bad news — 6 wks after graduation, whole class off to Korea. Pontoon bridges and land mines — killing without seeing. But knowing who also might stumble there. Career forces any way. NOT your typical army officer at home. No sirs and marching!
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So you had freedom to find your own troubles.
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oops I meant 150 overproof rum
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😉
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