Hey y’all, still loving this weather! I love this time of year, the beach feels like it slows down, nights are getting longer and oysters are everywhere! This time of year, we would head over to Bushy's for Happy Hour and sit as close to the fireplace as we could. One time and the only time, we got there early and sat at the table in front of the fireplace. Not for long, we were asked to leave as that table was reserved for Bushy's crew only. Sorry, no hard feelings, it was just the Folly Beach Mafia table and we inadvertently sat there uninvited. Bushy was a good guy, as we got to know each other a little bit, he had a few Sunday parties and started booking the Bluegrass band I played in for those parties. It was a good time. Folly had two police officers and Center Street ended at the Ocean, you could see it as you came over the bridge to Folly. It was a marvelous sight! Ok, enough nostalgia - I read Dear Abby the other day, there was a letter asking for advice on how a woman could address her good friend's baby name suggestions. Now, some popular names currently are Liam, Emma, Sophia and Oliver. The expectant mother's names are a little different - I thought, yeah, like naming your kid Seven (Seinfeld), or Moon Unit (Frank Zappa). She's in love with and I'm not exaggerating - Chlamydia... another - Bidet. Yup, those were some of the names considered. Anyway, the woman was in a tizzy about her friends baby names and Ms Abby gave her the requisite appropriate advice and some less life inhibiting names. Or maybe, Chlamydia will catch on as a girl's name?? We'll be back for The Point's Annual Oyster Roast out in Wadmalaw, here's a link for info & tix https://thepointis.org/11th-annual-oyster-roast It's Xmas very shortly, we'll be at the Crab Shack for their after Xmas Parade party and their Polar Bear Dip New Year's Day afternoon. This year at the Save The Light Oyster Roast, we'll be joined with Dave Gunstra and Jim Knight and The Daze for info and tix https://savethelight.org/events/oyster-roast/ Have a Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, from the cranky Grampas, to the much beloved grandkids and/or siblings! See you soon, thanks so much for supporting us, love y'all and go outside, ciao'!
Never Get Refills from Voodoo Doctors - Hopkinsville Woman Accidentally Gets Body Parts Delivered Instead of Ordered Medication - WLEX Lexington (Ky.) headline.
Your Sleep Number has been Disconnected: The recent Amazon Web Services outage affected services around the world, including Reddit, Snapchat, and ... beds. While AWS was down, users of Eight Sleep’s nearly $2,000 “Pod” mattress toppers reported issues on social media. One user complained they couldn’t change their morning alarm, while another said their “girlfriend’s side of the bed set itself to 110 [degrees F] and won’t turn down. Nightmare.” Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti apologized, and committed to “outage-proofing your Pod experience.” The next day, the company announced a new “Outage Mode” would allow “the app to communicate with Pod devices over Bluetooth when cloud infrastructure is unavailable.” (CTV) ...It remains to be seen if Outage Mode will solve users’ Outrage Mode.
63 Years - A Massachusetts family well knew the story: an aunt and uncle had hidden cash in their home. They’re now long gone, and descendants wanted to sell the house, but their probing so far hadn’t turned up the cash cache. Their niece thought maybe the attic, and considered getting a metal detector, but after “decades” still hadn’t made progress. She called Keith Wille of Connecticut, who has a Youtube channel about treasure hunting. It took him less than an hour to find it: a box with evidence it had been hidden in December 1958. “The family now has closure on the cash,” Wille said. “They can sell the house.” The cash was dated as early as the 1930s and totaled $46,000 — the equivalent of $421,600 today. (Springfield Republican) …Or, if it had been invested in the S&P 500, $3.46 million.
Declutter your Win11 OS from ARS Techinca –
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/
Thanks Nate for sending this! I was hoping this group would play out some, unfortunately, it didn't work out, work schedules, life, etc., maybe sometime?...
https://youtu.be/fhSHhl1oc_g
Just in case -
You're wondering, we cover a wide variety of music, Surf, Dance, Country and Western (thanks Blues Brothers), Classic Rock, Pop, Motown, Blues by artists and groups - Eric Clapton, Blondie, ZZ Top, Amy Winehouse, Peggy Lee, The Surfaris, Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs and many others...
Can I Call You Again Later? Florida Man Stands Trial for Allegedly Shooting Date after Arguing over Dinner Bill (WFOR Miami headline)
The reason Mayberry was so peaceful and quiet was because nobody was married. Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Earnest T Bass, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara and, of course, Opie were all single. The only married person was Otis, and he stayed drunk.
https://theonion.com/wedding-planner-gingerly-asks-taylor-swift-if-shes-considered-dance-lessons/
The Onion (like... 6 or 7 tomes??.)
Not Now, Cato! The daring daylight theft of 88 million euros (US$102 million) worth of crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris, France, has sparked imaginations worldwide. An Associated Press photographer at the scene snapped a shot of police at the museum which reveals a very dapper young man with a thin moustache, dressed in a suit and tie, fedora, and thigh-length trench coat, and carrying an umbrella. Online wags suggested, “Inspector Clouseau?”, the fictional bumbling-yet-successful French police detective played by the late Peter Sellers. When the AP inquired of the Paris Prosecutor’s office who the man really is, they replied, “We’d rather keep the mystery alive ;)”. About the same time as the photo was released over the AP wires, This is True posted a gag A.I.-generated photo of Peter Sellers dressed as Clouseau in front of the Louvre with the caption, “France puts its top detective on the case.” The man is apparently just a passerby, not a detective. (AP)…Art imitating farce.
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Teacher: "Johnny, can you use the word "gruesome" in a sentence?"
Johnny: "Yes ma'am - I use to be shorter, but then I gruesome."
Kiss Your Reputation Goodbye - Tennis Player Who Said a Kiss Caused His Positive Methamphetamine Test Gets 4-year Suspension - AP headline
From Jimbo – "If I had a dollar for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive.!"
The 21st Century Has Arrived - A harbinger of “the future” that people have been waiting for since the turn of the 20th Century is flying cars. We perhaps didn’t expect them to come from China. Xpeng AeroHT brought two prototypes to show off at the Changchun Air Show in Jilin Province. During a rehearsal a week before the show was to begin, the company flew the cars, which they hope to sell for US$300,000 each. They hit each other in the air. One crashed and burst into flames, injuring its pilot; the fate of other car was not clear, but its pilot was declared OK. (BBC, CNN) …The future is finally here, but it’s not safe for humans.