the daily purge 12-30-16

What we have here is a Christmas gift from a few years ago but T Purging L can not remember if it was from The Lad to My Sweet Rib or vicey-vercey. If you do that ‘magic-eye-give-yourself-a-headache-from-crossing-your-eyes’ gimmick from a few years back, you can see the dog leaping out from the screen on to……

the daily purge 12-29-16

One of the great things about the holy days is My Sweet Rib takes a couple weeks off to rest and relax and get a fresh coat of Ziebart to make it through the coming year. The Purging L likes her time off because I am held to a lower standard of ‘gittin stuff done’……

the daily purge 12-28-16

ampelmännchen – little traffic light men These are the crosswalk symbols used in East Germany back in the day and used today in the re-unified Deutschland. If you look up “ampelmännchen” on Wikipedia you will find a lengthy article behind the feller who designed them and how these dedigns came about. These are candies Our Marta……

the view from the gift exchange 12-24-16

Every year at Christmas time, TPL’s family, nuclear and extended, gather for food and sharing and yicking and yacking. We also have a gift exchange. Rather than buying individual gifts for 12 to 15 other peeps, we decide on a theme the year before and buy one gift we hope will satisfy the person who……

the daily purge 12-27-16

This is Axe Body Spray, a ‘grooming’ product targeted for the young male audience, usually from age 13 until marriage. To any one who has had a son go through puberty, there is more ‘grooming’ involved with gorillas who pick nits off their brothers and sisters in far off jungles. Axe, or ‘Lynx’ in England……

the daily purge 12-26-16

This a DVD holder. A DVD holder with goofy feet. Who in the Bible has goofy feet? Well, nobody wants to be considered to have goofy feet. People are pretty self-conscious about their feet, especially their toes. Back to work now. OK, who has unusual feet in the Bible? There is one fellow, an unnamed……

the view from the pew 12-24-16

It is Saturday evening and we are at the Latvian church where service will be conducted mostly in Latvian but the sermon in English. As years tick off I understand the Latvian language less but I’m certain that The Word works the same on any soul. What do you think? If Macitājs pronounces the forgiveness……

the daily purge 12-23-16

From the fine people at Case Logic, makers of music storage cases, comes the Case Logic compact disc holder. And soon will go to goodwill. The Purging Lutheran tossed out a similar case last week. Now that most music can be carried around in a smart phone or be snatched out the heavens with XM……

the daily purge 12-22-16

Shortly after Jesus knocked some sense into me (He was the fist Andrej used to blacken my eye on or about New Year’s Eve, 19-aught-96) which eventually led The Purging Lutheran, My Sweet Rib, The Lad, and Our Marta to Holy Cross Lutheran Church. It didn’t take long for us to get involved in helping……

the daily purge 12-21-16 [late edition]

This business chair is not broken but just taking up space in the basement. Now that it is out of the basement there is exactly that much more space for air in the basement in case The Purging L has to hold out through a worst case scenario. Face this fact, you, when disaster lands……

the daily purge 12-20-16

“Hey, hey, LBJ! How many …” Uh, you know, after a while it just becomes an embarrassment counting and photographing all the glasses our 36th president has gone through in just the past few years. That he died in 1973 makes this all the more quizzical and confounding. I harbor no ill will against this……

the daily purge 12-19-16

It is a classic business chair, fit for heineies of most sizes, for desks of optimal sizes, for businesses of varying sizes based in countries of all sizes but only for those nations based on free market economies. Question: But why not for control market economies, Mr. The P L? Answer: Because allocating decisions regarding……

the daily purge 12-16-16

As you can tell by the packaging these are Hand Warmers and Toe Warmers. These are meant to be used inside your boots or socks to keep your tootsies warm and inside your mittens to keep your googoos warm. Why do I want to stay warm, The P L? Well, if you are outside in……

the daily purge 12-15-16

LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) was a man of many visions but was blind, blind to how many pairs of glasses he could wear on his face. During Viet Nam war demonstrations, disrespectful college students chanted pointed barbs at him, one being “Hey, hey LBJ, how many pairs of ill-fitting frames did you wear on your……

the daily purge 12-14-16

BOO! It’s a scary book about a living dead human who discovers a vial of blood which can turn him back into a living being.What follows is a series of escapades, creepy in their nature, but leading to an open-ended ending, mostly because this is the third of a four book series, The Books of……

the daily purge 12-13-16

Ancient Hebrews will stare at this and call it ‘manna’. Manna is the Biblical word for ‘what is it?’. The Purging Lutheran has no doubt they called a lot of things ‘manna’ especially during the Exodus what with pillars of fire or smoke, shoes that never grew old, or grapes the sizes of melons. Today’s……

the daily purge 12-12-16

Oh, a trip case could hold just about anything. It can hold anything sized flat x 3″ x 5″. Now list items that can be described as ‘flat x 3″ x 5″‘ that would fit in its 12 double-sided plastic sleeves. – a 3″ x 5″ card, lined and blank – compact discs, some of……

the view from the pew 12-10-16

It’s nice to get back to Holy Cross on a Saturday night, dark and chilly outside but warm and comfy inside. What hurts is to sit and look to where Norm and Selma used to sit every Saturday evening for years. I miss my friends very much. Our youth director was playing pre-service music on……

the daily purge 12-9-16

Back to the humdrum. What TPL is tossing out, not donating to goodwill because that would be w-rong, is a toilet seat cover. Oh, sure it still looks useful but the reverse side has that funky kind-of-rubbery-plastic coating that flakes away when it flops around in the dryer. The flakes rarely make it into the……

the daily purge 12-8-16

The Purging Lutheran and My Sweet Rib have been blessed by The Lord Amighty to have wonderful neighbors. J Cole was one of them. He has since moved homeward to Columbus, Ohio, home of an Ohio state university. The young fella worked as a big machine salesman for New Holland (think anti-John Deere). I found……

the purging lutheran (hot dog ed.)

This is an American flag-themed table cloth. To save time, ThePurgingLutheran will avoid re-stating the original seven colonies from yesterday’s purge. Well-meaning persons would use it for a July 4 picnic or to celebrate a family member joining our armored forces. Anti-American hot heads might use it as a convenient way to desecrate the flag……

The Gatwick View (tuba edition)

Q: What do you call a beautiful girl on the arm of a tuba player? A: A tattoo. (11-27-2015)    

The Gatwick View (small ant category)

  Watch as ants in dayglo vests lean against shovels as grasshoppers are backed-up trying to get to work. (03-24-2015)

the purging lutheran (greatest banana)

Bananagrams is the banana version of Scrabble. You spread out tiles face down, pick them, then spell words out of your letters. And when you win, instead of saying “I win!” you say “Peel!”. Do you know what’s worse than a banana that rips off a game? Banana jokes. Q: What’s yellow and always points……

the view from the (Catholic) pew 12-3-16

It’s off a wobbly boat, a taxi grab to the hotel then a short, rainy walk to Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church, New Orleans for the 11:00am service. Like other older Catholic churches I’ve sat in there is no shortage of stained glass windows depicting scenes from the Bible. In some churches these have focused on……