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Dave Troy

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Owner of three dogs, grower of tomatoes, reader of books, Green Bay Packer owner, former one day Jeopardy! Champion. Not a bot, living the dream in Connecticut. ☮️ 💙 🌞 🍅 📚No DMs, please.


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Very nice. Enjoy. ☮️

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Cape Cod?

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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fever dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent.”

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“I didn’t get a Harrumph outta you!” “HARRUMPH!” “Watch your ass.” 😏

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Me (thinking): “I should make my bed before going to sleep tonight.” My Dog (dreaming): “💤💤💤”

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Ditto, Chaotic Moon.

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😏

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My good deed is not making fun of labored portmanteaus.

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☺️

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My new puppy’s name is Poppy, too. 💙

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Let he among us who has NOT insured his testicles for $10,000,000.00 cast the first stone, please, Sir.

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Goodness, gracious great balls of fire! ☄️ ☄️

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring

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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” - J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit

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"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.” - Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose 📚 🥀

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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fever dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent.”

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…Seems like a timely re-read today.

👇 #SCOTUS #Democracy

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❤️

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Me: (thinking) “My Basset Hound just loves me for me and has no ulterior motives.” ❤️ My Basset Hound: 👇

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“Il Pooche” When your new puppy poses like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

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“Iceberg! Right ahead!” 🥬 - Romaine Lettuce (probably) 🥬

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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 📚

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“The tale of Enron is a story of human weakness, of hubris and greed and rampant self-delusion; of ambition run amok; of a grand experiment in the deregulated world…” - Bethany McLean 📉📚 The Smartest Guys in the Room

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“What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?” - Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 📚

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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.” 📚 - Timothy Snyder “On Tyranny”

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“Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 📚

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Hanna-Barbera Interview Hanna-Barbera: “We need you to draw myriad villains for an animated television show. What can you draw?” Artist: (sheepishly) “Just slight variations on morbidly-obese comic Louie Anderson…” Hanna-Barbera: “YOU’RE HIRED!”

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Read 👇

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“Poppy” 🦈💙

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Thank you! 💙. She has a great personality, too! Very feisty! 😈

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Day #8 with the new puppy. She is adjusting well to her new life. 💙

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Scottie Scheffler, seen here receiving the traditional baby awarded to the winner of the Travelers golf tournament, said “Well, that’s Connecticut for ya!” ⛳️

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🌱 Camouflage 🌱

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“Thumb envy?” 👍🤔 🦈

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👇 We support your votes for all position.

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💙🩵💙

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Thank you! 💙

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Yep, she is the neediest of the three. 👇

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Agreed. She is one of three dogs here in our family. 💙💙💙

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Yes, her name is Penelope. My wife is calling her “Poppy”. 💕

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Romy is BEAUTIFUL! ❤️

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Romy is BEAUTIFUL, too! ❤️

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Her name is Penelope. 💕

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❤️

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