{"id":2957,"date":"2002-08-29T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2002-08-29T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T16:05:36","slug":"double_bubble_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/29\/double_bubble_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Double Bubble Bubblegum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.othersideofglenroad.org\/backporch\/archives\/00000413.html\">Thursday Threesome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Onesome. <i>Double<\/i>. If you could have a clone of yourself, what thing would you most want that clone to do so you don&#8217;t have to?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No way!  <i>I <\/i>read that old horror comic about the artist who magically gets a double, which lets him go out drinking and dancing while the double paints, but then the paintings are getting acclaim, so he gets jealous and trades places, but then he sees the double making the moves on his girlfriend, so he locks the double up in the basement and marries the girlfriend and goes off on the honeymoon and dies when his double starves to death in the basement!<\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;re not catching me with any of those fancy-schmancy clone tricks!<\/p>\n<p><b>Twosome. <i>Bubble<\/i>. Anyone you know live life in a bubble? Who? And do you wish they&#8217;d snap back to reality?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wish there were any number of politicians &#8212; or Bill Gates, for that matter &#8212; who had to live like &#8220;just plain folks&#8221; for a few weeks a year, so that they can see what they&#8217;ve wrought.<\/p>\n<p><b>Threesome. <i>Bubblegum<\/i>. Willy Wonka talks about chewing gum to be a nasty habit. What&#8217;s your worst habit? Do you wish you could give it up?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Procrastination.  And I plan on giving it up, real soon now &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Thursday Threesome&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137405,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/the-future-of-star-wars-the-clone-wars.html","url_meta":{"origin":2957,"position":0},"title":"The future of &quot;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 31-Oct-18 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Having just (finally!) finished the 6th season of Clone Wars [1] I'm seriously jazzed that a 7th season of the series has been announced -- a dozen episodes to wrap things up. 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