Good Morning!
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back. Let the situation be as cold as winter but the heat lies within you. — Albert Camus
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings.
This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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Sometimes in the middle of a winter funk, what we need most is something silly to laugh at. So here are some pretty silly videos with some weird and some cute animals, and some very silly songs.
Warning: If you’re hung over, turn down the volume a little
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Nicole Plyler Fisk
Gene Howington
FFS Guest Blogger
Joy of Fishes
Chuck Stanley
shortfinals
Terry Welshans
ann li-summers
wordcloud9
Flowers For Socrates 
Makes for great small talk at parties,too. “What do you do for a living”? “I tickle rats”.
LOL – for sure!
Even beats the lady I knew who worked in the Ice Cream Flavor Development Department at Baskin-Robbins – part of her job was ice cream tasting!
Captain Obvious and the Obvious Brigade are my homies.
https://plus.google.com/communities/114899967038491218631
Did you know the swimming pools on the Titanic are still full?
Pringles are named Pringles because somebody named them that.
China is accused of using the sea to hide its submarines.
I see that CNN host Don Lemon is getting flack from colleagues for making TV news look bad. Broadcasting from The Spotted Cat in NOLA, He got smashed on the air during CNN’s countdown to the new year. Was going to get a nipple piercing on air, but settled for an ear piercing.
At any rate, he has been accused of lowering the standards for television journalism.
How?
LOL – You mean they think they still have standards?
Talk about delusional.
it was stupid since most of the remotes also had drunk reporters Lemon has many detractors because all the usual haters … homophobes, racists, CNN-haters ….