This week marks the 216th anniversary of the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition, but guess what? I just did not have the wherewithal to create the Top Ten Things not to do on that trip. Maybe some other day. Today, we need a laugh, so I thought I would put a few of my favorite coronavirus memes to lighten the week a little. This is not to make lite of our situation, but just to have a smile or two.
Cause for worry
Good tip
True
Clever Police.
Typical
I would want to do that.
Tough choice.
Love it.
Can’t fight it forever.
Work at home blues
Maybe the answer. I hope you enjoyed these.
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These were great, John. I loved the dog filled with helium. 🙂 Happy Monday!
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Thank you, Jill. 😁
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Yup – the helium-filled dog gets my vote, too. Nice set, John.
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Thank you Keith. My fav is the police car. Shows a great sense of humor.
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… and a Sting in the tail, too. 😀
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Hahaha. Good one.
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Everyone needs something to smile or laugh about. These were great.
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Thank you, Karen. 😁
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Loved the ones with the dogs. And of course, the whiskey still. Just so ya know, I’m not forgetting about the Lewis and Clark one. Can’t wait to see what you come up with. (Helpful Hint: Check out York, William Clark’s slave.)
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I should have put a “sorry Andrew,” message. The Lewis and Clark item is so vast. Going from St. Louis to the Pacific ocean on foot and by boat was an unbeleaveable feat. York was freed after the expidition for his good work during. Amazing story. Can do it next week. Thanks for keeping me honest.
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I also vote for the helium-filled dog!
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Funny one for sure. Thanks, Liz. 😁
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Thanks for the giggle, John!
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My pleasure, Lori. 😁
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Great collection. I was thinking of doing this a week from Sunday too. There are so many good ones out there.
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There are for sure. Looking forward to yours. Thanks, Charles.
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You’re welcome. I’ve got 2 weeks to reach the high bar you set. 😁
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hahaha. You will have no problem. 😁
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These are great, John. I love the police car. We had a zoom-based town meeting that had me praying for a zoomBomber.
I hope you can hang in there for another week in pandemic paradise.
Take care.
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Thank you, Dan. I have this hanging in thng down pat. Stay healthy.
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According to this plaque, you’re early for Lewis & Clark, anyway. If you do the post at some point, feel free to use the image. It’s on the Allegheny River, just outside of the Strip District, in Pittsburgh.
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You are right about the launch of the keeled boat in Pittsburgh. and is reconized as the beginning. I am commemorating the full compliment and fully equipped departure of the expedition. The Corps of Discovery (Named by Jefferson) departed from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood), Missouri at 4 pm on May 14, 1804 on the Missouri River and picked up Clark in St Charles, Missouri six days later.
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Ah, OK. I was kinda hoping to see Tiny in my old home town, maybe buy him an Iron City – oops, they didn’t start brewing that until 1861. I guess I better leave the time travel to the experts.
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Hahaha. We’ll see how it goes. I swear I was trying to find something funny like “Don’t ask Sacagawea out.” Don’t wear your LL Bean boots.” You know it gets tough.
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Don’t ask to stop at Powell’s books once they get to Oregon.
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Thank you.
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This is the best list ever! LOVED IT! Yesterday I had a zoom session with my kids and grandkids and listening to the frustrations of home-schooling was hilarious. Parents everywhere are recognizing how “essential” teachers are. 🙂
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I’ll bet the zoom session was fun. Yes, I think parents are convinced teachers are essential. Thanks, Gwen.
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HAHAHA. I laughed out loud and had tears! Love the Helium Dog. HAHAHA. Great way to start the day. Thanks John.
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Thank you, Pamela. 😁
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These were great John. Thanks for the levity. ❤
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My pleasure, Lynne. 😊
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Loved all of these – thanks for the laughs, John!
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Thank you, Teri. 😁
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Oreos and whiskey, hmm. Perhaps when I’m helping my youngest do her math.
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I don’t know about my mental condition but I think chocolate and bourbon pair very nicely.
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This was a great idea, John! Plus there were a bunch I hadn’t seen yet!
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I’m so glad. Thanks, Dale.
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I admire you for keeping us entertained with your writing, John. I have not written a word for months!
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You should get back. It is good for the soul. Thanks, Ronnie.
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I loved all of these, John, but the Zoom meeting dog had me laughing out loud!! Thank you for sharing!
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Yeah, a good laugh is a good thing.
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Thank you, John — I loved them! I’m still laughing over the dog filled with helium … and the homemade “still”!! You’re right, we ALL need a laugh about now!
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Thank you, Debbie. I think so too.
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Helium dog is the best. Gotta try that with Scooter.
What? No…inside of course.
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Or a tight tether.
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Thanks for the smiles, John:)
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Glad you got some. Thanks, Denise.
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I did enjoy these, since, I’m not sure Lewis and Clark are all that funny.
My favorite is the Oreo dunked in whiskey, the sober alcoholic that I am.
Also, the doggies on Zoom. Humor, too bad we can’t buy it on the corner like pot or hot Hamilton tickets. Think of the price it would glean. 🙂
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Humor tickets would be in high demand. I could see the scalpers on the corner. “Got three belly laughs and two gaffaws here.”
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Very Damon Runyon sir. 🙂
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Pretty big compliment. Thank you. 😊
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I’m just glad you know who he is. Guys and Dolls, and all that. 🙂
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He and John Cheever were my favorite short story writers. I used to listen to the Damon Runyon Theater on radio with my parents as a kid and then on TV as a teenager.
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Wow!!! How lucky were you!!!
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I know right? Also I was right there for the birth of Rock and Roll. Charmed life. 😊
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In a way for you, Elvis has never left the building. 🙂
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So true. I actually attended one of his last concerts (Yes in my early thirties) He was bloated and looked awful but brought the house down. No one would leave until the annoucemet, “Ladies and gentlemen. Elvis has left the building.”
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What a great story. I know he was a wreck at the end. I read a bio on him that broke my heart. His beginnings were amazing and then all that money ruined him. There’s nothing quite like music money. It parlays itself over and over again. His addict then just took him over, as it tends to do. sigh
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I wished he had someone near him who cared enough to tell him to knock that shit off.
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He listened to no one but his mother, Glady, who died in 1958. After that he was off to the races. All that money, a posse of hang-er-ons spending it. He never stood a chance.
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Like so many of the insecure talented ones.
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Agreed. Ever been to Graceland? The prosaic opulence. Like what I imagine Bluebeard’s castle may have looked like.
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I drove by once. Never have been inside.
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You have to know someone to see Elvis’s bedroom. I did not, but apparently, Marie Antoinette had nothing on the King.
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Elvis was worth about $5M ($19M today) when he died. The estate is worth about $400M now. Marie Antoinette would have liked that kind of growth and probably could figure out how to spend it. 😀
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Letting them eat cake. 🙂
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With a bananna-nut sandwich on the side.
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FYI…I know you’re a Kurt fan. I’m about to order a copy of Man Without a Country. my library is still closed and could sure use a dose of Kurt right now. And so it goes. 🙂
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It is tough having a library closed. Kurt’s Amazon prices are sure holding up at the high end.
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I got a used copy. Came to 7.99. 🙂
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Excellent.
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I like used books. If they could only talk. 🙂
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That would be something. Depending on the previous owners, the books could perhaps tell stories that might, in fact, be better than the story.
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Imagine all those laps.
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I like the idea of the reader falling asleep while reading and hearing the story of where the book ended up spending the night.
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I like the one with the still, except Barney Fife would find it, take an ax and go POW!POW!POW! Also, filling the dog with helium…
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The helium dog was fun.
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Oh, I agree, John! You sure beat me in the quarantine humor department!!
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Just had to break out today, GP.
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Love these. The police car is classic, and since I’m a big fan of the band . . I gotta go with that one. 🙂
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Yes. My fav as well.
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So good. They’re all so good to tell the truth.
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😁
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🙂
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A-ha-ha-ha!!!!! I remember another jest (number 1 in your top): We don’t make the moonshine anymore. We produce sanitizer. As for me, dear John, I have lost the sense of reality. I know that it is 758 May of…unknown year. I remember the days of the week only due to my blog. When I see Lucy & Twiggy I know that it is somewhere between Wednesday and Friday! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Hahahha. You should be able to keep track since I name each day except Monday (Who wants it) and Sunday. 😀
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Thanks, dear John…however here the idle stillness is so strong that it makes me feel out of this world (joking) 🙂 🙂 🙂 I wonder if the dogs have any feeling of days of the week? Budgies certainly do not. For them each day is Friday, 🙂
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They do not. Everyday is the same. Out, breakfast, out, nap, out, nap, play, dinner, out, nap, out, bed.
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And they are happy with that! Maybe, ‘everyday’ is just a period of time between naps & dinners for them. Thanks, dear John!
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I think so. 😀
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You had me cracking up with these, John! Thanks for the laughs. ❤
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Glad you liked it Vashti. Thanks.
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The helium filled dog is my favorite. You know we are healthy when we can joke about a terrible thing affecting our lives.
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So true, Noelle. Thanks for the observation.
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Awesome! So true about “audio” & “video” 😂😂😂 #always!!!
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Hahahaha. Yes it is. 😂
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Those are golden.
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😂😂 A good bunch of laughs indeed. Thanks!
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Thank you, Eilene 😁
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Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
Check out this timely list from John Howell’s blog with the TOP TEN (OKAY, THERE ARE TWELVE) CORONAVIRUS MEMES – TIME FOR A LAUGH
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Thank you, Don.
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You’re welcome.
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Hilarious, John. Thanks for the laughs 😊
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Thank you, Harmony. Glad you liked it. 😊
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LOL! I laughed out loud at several of these! Thanks, for the laughs.
I did a couple of years of homeschooling with each child and thought for sure I’d be Miss Frizzle. Yeah, no I was the one in Sombrero. 😂 Thankfully, we all survived it.
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Hahaha. Sounds like it all worked well.
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I wish I’d taken home schooling in science now, lol
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Yes. Would make life easier.
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Loved all this! Thanks, I needed the laugh. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Beck. I always love to hear about a laugh delived when needed.. 😊
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This made my day!
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I’m glad, Michelle.
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These were great, John. I like the baggy jeans after a number of days. 🙂
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So true isn’t it? Thanks, Jennie.
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Unfortunately, yes.
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John you have brought a much needed smile to my face 🙂
I wish I had stumbled upon your post earlier this week, but at least you made me smile today 🙂
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I’m glad you got a smile, Jenny. Thanks for letting me know.
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Thanks for the laughs! Sooooo funny! 💙
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I’m glad you enjoyed them, Patty.
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The memes are by far the best part of the pandemic. Thanks for sharing!
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I need the laugh myself. Thanks, Janet. 😁
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Boy did this post make me laugh a lot. Thanks for sharing.
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I’m so glad. Thanks for letting me know.
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