What gets you out of a bad mood?

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Coffee or other caffeinated drink is a biggie.
Also sleep.
And sometimes some good music. Today it was Bob Segerā€™s ā€œBetty Louā€™s Gettinā€™ Out Tonightā€. I have a cat named Betty Lou who I sprang from the city kill shelter, so that song reminds me of her.
Followed it up with ā€œGet Out of Denverā€.
 
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dochawk said:
I have never been arrested for blowing anythng up
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Back in the dear dead days of the late 70s/ early 80s, my husband and a bunch of his college engineer friends used to amuse themselves by making small bombs to set off for fun on unpopulated golf courses and the like. A far cry from several decades later, when one of my artist friends was actually arrested and prosecuted by the Feds for making a girl he liked an artistic clock that looked like a fake stack of dynamite and sending it to her through the US Mail, where the postal workers heard the clock inside the package ticking and evacuated the whole downtown block and called the bomb squad.

My husband ended up working professionally on some engineering projects involving ordnance. His favorite story of this was when he had to transport an entire truck of mines to a test site a few days after 9/11 and had to go through some police checkpoint and describe what he had in his truck. Another guy got some kind of job in biomedical engineering, designing artificial hearts.
 
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
I like watching ā€œDuck Season Wabbit Seasonā€ clips on You Tube
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Elmer does get blown up often enough . . . (though I guess not in the new ones . . .)
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A far cry from several decades later, when one of my artist friends was actually arrested and prosecuted by the Feds for making a girl he liked an artistic clock that looked like a fake stack of dynamite and sending it to her through the US Mail, where the postal workers heard the clock inside the package ticking and evacuated the whole downtown block and called the bomb squad.
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thatā€™s hard to prosecute successfully . . .
 
The city supposedly pushed the prosecutor to bring charges because they were upset about spending all the money on the evacuation and bomb squad, only to look like fools. The artist was just out of suburban high school, looked totally milquetoast, had a clean record, and had his high school teachers appearing as character witnesses saying what a good, well-behaved student he was. He was acquitted. My only regret is I couldnā€™t get off work to go watch the trial, since from all accounts it sounds like it was pretty funny, except for my friend worrying that he might actually somehow get convicted of a felony. And of course all the money his parents had to spend on his defense lawyer.
 
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I would expect the acquittal in a ā€œtypicalā€ case of this description.

ā€œIā€™m a dim-witted knuckleheadā€ is usually a rather sound defense to ā€œyou intended to cause harmā€ in a manner that couldnā€™t possibly do it . . .

Now, it can leave lasting consequences . . . one of y favorite legal opinions (which I canā€™t find at the moment) came from an attempt to except a snowmobile accident from a bankruptcy discharge under the grounds of DUI.

The decision read, basically, that there was no other evidence of DUI than that the defendant had been acting ā€œlike a jackassā€ā€“and the judge noted that his courtroom behavior was the same.

So he escaped the debt, but now wanders through life with a federal court having formally found that heā€™s a jackass . . . .
 
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The decision read, basically, that there was no other evidence of DUI than that the defendant had been acting ā€œlike a jackassā€ā€“and the judge noted that his courtroom behavior was the same.

So he escaped the debt, but now wanders through life with a federal court having formally found that heā€™s a jackass . .
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I used to love cases where I could argue my client was just an idiot.
 
If Iā€™m in a sad mood ,making my self sing as loud as I can to a CD when Iā€™m passing others in cars :nerd_face:It cheers me up to think how Silly I look .
 
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