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Croquet taught me the lyrics to MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This

January 20, 2017 / Pop culture, Sports, Words / 2 minutes of reading

The croquet twitter account @HammerTimeCroqu started following me today on Twitter. That is, they are following my croquet-dedicated Twitter account, @mightymauler. Yes, I have a Twitter account dedicated to croquet. Not just croquet, but my superhero alter-ego persona on the croquet courts, the Mighty Mauler. My Twitter account bio calls me “the croquet superhero.” This …

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Yahoo deletes helpful and fun questions

November 11, 2015 / Sports, Tech / 2 minutes of reading

Yahoo Answers is like the Wild West for questions. You can ask anything; and the general public answers your questions. With the general public giving answers, you get a range of helpful answers to completely stupid youtube-like responses. It’s a mixed bag, and that’s what partly makes it fun. Anything can happen. Yet, Yahoo will …

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Why does Yahoo hate Ewoks?

October 17, 2023 / Pop culture, Sports, Tech / 1 minute of reading

Yahoo deleted my question, “Why do ewoks like croquet?” Everyone knows that ewoks love to play the game of croquet. They are woodland creatures, croquet only makes sense for them to play in their habitat. Ewoks are also extremely playful. They would play croquet all day long. Perhaps Yahoo think that Ewoks don’t like croquet. …

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10-year anniversary of Groundhog Croquet

November 11, 2015 / Sports / 1 minute of reading

Ten years ago on 02/02/02 I started a new comic strip, Groundhog Croquet. It lasted a whole two strips. Check ’em out at spudart.org/groundhog

B&W images for photo transfer in encaustic wax

November 11, 2015 / Art, Chicago, Design, Illustration, Sports / 1 minute of reading

For my encaustic painting class we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w–no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise: — Gummi bear drawing — Photoshop 3 toolbox — 365 diagram — Vintage CTA map — 30,000 days diagram — …

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Bingoo is a word, that’s happy!

July 4, 2020 / Sports, Words / 1 minute of reading

I found a new blog that is full of fun happiness. While leaving my first comment on the delightful intergalactic croquet photo, my captcha said, “bingoo.” Who knew that “bingoo” is a word! Oh captcha how you can bring about such fun words. Especially when they are coupled with super fun blog posts like this …

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What is baseball, really? (part 4 of 4: Baseball is also like croquet)3602

November 11, 2015 / Sports / 1 minute of reading

Other than NASCAR, baseball is most like croquet. Both baseball and croquet has the main objective of the player to go in a circle by reaching certain stations along the way. Baseball you you go in a circle and touch four bases. In croquet you go in a circle by making your ball go through …

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What is baseball, really? (part 3 of 4: Baseball is most like NASCAR)

November 11, 2015 / Sports / 1 minute of reading

Baseball has more in common with NASCAR than another sport. Both baseball and NASCAR involve getting around a circle as fast as possible. That’s really the point of baseball. To run around in a complete circle. I can’t think of any other sports besides track and NASCAR that has the main point to be running …

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What is baseball, really? (part 2 of 4: thoughts on homeruns)

November 11, 2015 / Sports / 2 minutes of reading

The celebrated homerun As the previous post mentioned, the main point of baseball is one of avoidance. You hit the ball where it escapes your oppoents to you have enough time to run around in a circle. Whereas other sports of like baskeball and football center around getting the ball into a specific place. But …

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