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UTUSN

(70,496 posts)
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 12:49 AM Jul 2021

A 4th of more Blue than Red/White - not Debbie DOWNER. Can you believe a "Vaccinated !" PIN?!

Apparently I have different little groups of collectibles – bells, olive oil bottles, figurines, whatever/not-whatever. So with our current unpleasantness of the Covid and all its various (not talking “variants”) types it has inflicted of unpleasantnesses on our lives, here we have from the internet a PIN claiming “VACINATED !”

I use my Navy lapel ribbons on my LBJ Open Road Stetson at my only outings (“Happy” Hours). I only have 7 ribbons/medals, almost all of them just GENERIC not “heroic”. In other words, when you sign your name to volunteer you automatically get the National Defense Service Medal (without jumping on bodies). When you SET FOOT off the plane at Ton Son Nhut air force base in Saigon, you automatically get a U.S. Vietnam Service Medal, plus the two other Republic of Vietnam (which doesn’t exist anymore) medals. However, the Combat Action RIBBON (not a medal) is for having been fired on and returning fire – still not INDIVIDUAL/heroic jumping on bodies.

So I only have 7. When an Army dude saw my 7 on my LBJ Open Road Stetson, he admired it. I offered to work up HIS for hat wear. So when I started to interview him for listing his medals, we got the COUNT up to TWENTY or more! That would not only be IMPOSSIBLE on an LBJ Open Road, but would look RIDICULOUS – like The Great Dictator type of medals.

So my little 7 are *JUST RIGHT* like Goldilocks. And for all these pins o’mine, I Dremel cut off the needle pins on the back and glue a little magnet from Michaels or Joanns (not Hobby Lobby), and use another little magnet on the back of the shirt. This is to not poke holes in shirts.

*******Well, this is not July 4th material, but my intensive University of YouTube experience (TONS of Julius Caesar) ended up with the random suggestions of Paul McCARTHY’s favorite song – “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys. AND the AGREEMENT between him and wife-beater LENNON that the best voice was fellow named NILSSON. So here they are: Sad they are, fitting considering all losses of last year.

**** Oh, P.S., cousin Pat, your mother once told me to call her if I felt “blue”. I guess I’m feeling blue.



“God Only Knows What I’d Be Without You”



NILSSON “Without You”










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A 4th of more Blue than Red/White - not Debbie DOWNER. Can you believe a "Vaccinated !" PIN?! (Original Post) UTUSN Jul 2021 OP
Y'all sport a Stetson?? Ooh la la!1 sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #1
I've been hatted since I was two years old! UTUSN Jul 2021 #4
All hat and surprise! He got cattle too/two!1 sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #11
LBJ "Open Road" Stetson - not the ridiculous YARD WIDE thing-ums! UTUSN Jul 2021 #5
That contributor guy on one of the cable news always wears one while commentating. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #7
Mark McKinnon. Bio sez he used to roll as a Dem, now reptiliQan. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #9
Tchotchkes/curios/trinkets/bijou. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #2
Getting back to you after Googling "bijou" - uh... UTUSN Jul 2021 #3
bijou sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #6
O.K., *now* you did it! ---I never rub it in, just beg for a miserable PICTURE!1 UTUSN Jul 2021 #8
Y'all so cute when you beg. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #10
That old "packing it in" thingy is *WAY* old. Even eBay/Etsy have tortured me! UTUSN Jul 2021 #12
I really gave it a strong attempt to look it up on the Google when this whole thing started. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #13
Am I supposed to "rack up" when YOU say so?!1 We never said "rack up" in the Navy!1 UTUSN Jul 2021 #15
sprink fading. hitting the hay. night all. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #14
Well, glory the bee! --- thank you, Zeus! UTUSN Jul 2021 #16
DOG will smite thee. 😆 'Thee' soundeth more better. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #17
It's been real. You're fun. ♥️ sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #18
Are you racking yourself OR NOT?!1 - Get thee to thy RACK already! UTUSN Jul 2021 #19
Yah, I'm gonna rack. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #20

sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
7. That contributor guy on one of the cable news always wears one while commentating.
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:43 AM
Jul 2021

I'll look him up. Not Charlie Dent.

UTUSN

(70,496 posts)
3. Getting back to you after Googling "bijou" - uh...
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:20 AM
Jul 2021

It's a girl's name - but not for human girls, would be ridiculous? Maybe for dogs?

"bijou" residence - for tiny houses to sound precious?

****I'll keep trying... to conceive, I mean...!






sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
6. bijou
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:41 AM
Jul 2021

1. a small dainty usually ornamental piece of delicate workmanship, jewel.
2 something delicate, elegant, or highly prized. As for instance, hmm, how to say? A MidWatch doo-dad?

sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
10. Y'all so cute when you beg.
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:54 AM
Jul 2021

It's somewhere here. I think. 'I' dint pack it up during last move so it's evading the whereabouts.

sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
13. I really gave it a strong attempt to look it up on the Google when this whole thing started.
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 02:03 AM
Jul 2021

Went bonkers round and round. Nada. Nyet. Nichts. Zilch. Goose-egg.

Hooz up with us getting intrigued by this exchange? Or mb scratching their head?

You gonna rack soon?

UTUSN

(70,496 posts)
15. Am I supposed to "rack up" when YOU say so?!1 We never said "rack up" in the Navy!1
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 02:11 AM
Jul 2021

Yes, the bunk bed was a RACK.






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