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...and boy, am I tired!

Vladagra

Story on local radio today was that the one shot down over Alaska might have been a research balloon from Illinois. Apparently the thing had been up for a few months and had circled the globe 3 times, but suspiciously stopped reporting in right after the balloon over Alaska was taken down.

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2023/02/17

F Troop episode with Count Heindreich von Zeppelin (Harvey Korman)

History buffs will get it.

Ok, so maybe it's Richard Heene up to his old tricks.

These other balloons...has anyone kept an eye on [as] lately? Remember Boston.

...and Putin doesn't give a flying fig about Russians either...

They were talking about it on the local (Chicago) news a few weeks ago.

old news

For a lot of people, it's a Rihanna concert...sandwiched in between two halves of some sort of sporting event. For me, if the Bears aren't in it, I have no dog in this fight. That being said, "Fly Eagles Fly!"...if only to shut up the Bears fans that are still pushing the "we should have taken Mahomes" stuff. It's been five freakin' years, get over it.

This is becoming a thing...