Hey y’all, still loving this weather! Happy Thanksgiving y'all! I don't know about you, but starting in October, this time of year just seems to fly by, like a race to the end of the year or just New Year's Day. Then it seems to slow down in January, but there's a couple of things to look forward to this month, next month and January. Oyster season is upon us and it's buckets all around. The Mills House is having it's oyster roast this weekend and we'll be playing from 2-5p this Saturday. Matt will be doing double duty that day, on sax, singin' and serving up oysters. It sounds more like triple duty! It's a count down to Save The Light Oyster Roast at Bowen's Island... oh yeah, Christmas too! Speaking of Xmas, 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/ And just when you think it slows down, Charleston's Restaurant Week kicks in and there's something to do. Talk about the Holidaze! I did the Black Friday thing one year, it was only one year, it was everything I'd read about, a madhouse, I was glad Gene's Haufbrau was open that day, a place of respite. Ok, going to dinner, have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone, from the drunk uncle to the favorite family members! See you soon, thanks so much for supporting us, love y'all and go outside, ciao'!
Usually It’s the Tourists Who Are the Pigs - Stop Harassing New Forest Pigs for Selfies, Visitors Told - London Telegraph headline
Dial-a-Prophet: You can now text with Jesus. Really! Well, maybe not really-really: “Text with Jesus” is an A.I.-powered chatbot smartphone app trained in biblical concepts, introduced to a divided America where 30 percent of the population now says they have no religious affiliation — a number that’s been steadily rising. Stéphane Peter, the French-born Los Angeles-based software engineer behind the company, admits he is “not particularly religious at the moment,” but says “it’s been incredible to see how many want to try a conversation with biblical figures.” Not just Jesus: all 12 apostles are in the app, among other biblical figures such as Moses; he hopes to have “The Three Wise Men” added before Christmas. Plus, NBC added, “Premium users can also converse with Satan.” (AFP, WFLD Chicago, NBC) ...Users insist the connections are authentic because the bot never answers their actual questions.
Dirty Money: An investigation by the Reuters news agency uncovered internal documents by Meta Inc., the parent company of Facebook, revealing that last year, Meta made about $16 billion running ads for scams and banned goods. Worse, the company has failed to address that ethical lapse for at least three years, and shows its users about 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads every day, plus around 22 billion “organic scam attempts” such as private messages from scammers to victims. The company has internal systems to ban such ads, but takes action only when the systems are “at least 95% certain” the ads are fraudulent; meanwhile, it rejected or ignored 96 percent of users’ complaints about scammers. Before that trigger, the company simply charges the advertisers extra, boosting its own profits from the scam operations. And when users do click on such ads, its algorithms automatically show those users more of the scammy ad inventory. Last year a British regulator found that Meta was involved in 54 percent of all financial losses due to scams — more than double than all of its competitors combined. Meta’s documents estimate that the company is involved in promoting about a third of all successful scams being perpetuated in the United States, making it “a pillar of the global fraud economy.” (Reuters) ...Fraud: a global industry. Meta: its leading logistics partner.
In case you wondered, the development of the emoticon from ARS Techinca –
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/in-1982-a-physics-joke-gone-wrong-sparked-the-invention-of-the-emoticon/
Our favorite dive bar on Folly, The Planet, thx for having us!
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Pucker Factor - Man Pulls Knife on Victim in Miami Publix Bathroom Because He ‘Really Needed to Use’ Stall - WPLG Miami (Fla.) headline
The officer said, "You drinking?"
I said, "You buying?"
We just laughed and laughed ... and now I need bail money.
https://theonion.com/cousins-form-pact-to-get-laid-by-end-of-thanksgiving/
The Onion (like... 6 or 7 years??)
May As Well: “Rod” is the owner of a little yellow house in Maysville, Colo., and says he knew about the tradition before he bought the house 7 years ago. It’s known to locals — and Maysville is tiny enough that “locals” are spread fairly widely — as the Honk House, as it’s tradition to honk at the house when driving by. It’s along a two-lane portion of U.S. Highway 50 in the Rockies between Denver and the more-rural western part of the state, and it’s been going on for around 80 years. Most of the people driving by therefore have no idea as to why they’re supposed to beep their horn, they just remember their parents did it. It goes back to Harry Miller, who built the house for his wife. She would sit in the window and wave at cars when they went by. When she died, Harry took over the job of waving: drivers considered it “good luck” as they headed up to the 11,312-ft (3,448m) Monarch Pass, which marks the Continental Divide, or as thanks for good passage on the way down. Harry died in 1976. The honking has never stopped. Rod says he recently spent 2 months in the hospital, and the energy he’s received from the honkers helped him heal. He still waves back. (KMGH Denver) ...You know it’s OK since he uses all of his fingers.
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A wife, pissed off that her husband was late again, wrote a dramatic note: I've had enough, I'm leaving you. Don't try to find me.
She hid under the bed, waiting to see his reaction.
The husband walks in finds the note and after a pause, he scribbles something down then calls someone: "She's finally gone... yeah, I know, about damn time. I'm coming over, wear that French nightie, I love you. Can't wait to do all the naughty things you like."
He hangs up, grabs his keys and leaves...
The wife, shaking with rage and tears, crawls out from under the bed and reads what he wrote, it said - "I can see your feet. Also, we're out of bread, back in 5."
From Jimbo – "Wi-fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people."
Here's something for the puzzlers in your family... these puzzles will keep you and your family busy for a while, pass the hot chocolate! ...you can thank me later...