Lem Billings Puns

Was wondering if Tim ever talked about these two people. The Kennedy family is mad interesting.

So, my daughter just showed me this Tik Tok (I know, I know - but it's interesting). https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJQQTGuv/

And that led me to the slides mentioned in it (https://tinyurl.com/jfkwasbi). And, ahem, that snow pic? Excuse me?

Wikipedia entry on Billings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem_Billings

Long story short, Ol' Jackie Boy's longtime pal was definitely gay and lived with them in the White House.

From Wikipedia:

>One historian wrote that after the 1963 assassination Billings was: "probably the saddest of the Kennedy 'widows'."

Honestly, this all just blew my mind.

But of course, the book about them is called Jack & Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship.

Naturally.

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Photos of JFK and his best friend since high school Lem Billings, who was openly gay. They were so close Lem was known as "First Friend" and also had a room in the White House. They went on the road everywhere together including on a trip to Nazi Germany together a few years together before the war where they adopted a Dachshund.

Summer of 1937

JFK and Best Friend

NFC East

Michael Strahan: Giants

Larry Allen: Cowboys / 49ers

Jeff Bostic: Football Team

Keith Jackson: Eagles / Dolphins / Packers

NFC West

Antrel Rolle: Cardinals / Giants / Bears

Shaun Alexander: Seahawks / Football Team

Joe Montana: 49ers / Chiefs

Jackie Slater: Rams

NFC North

A.J. Hawk: Packers / Bengals / Falcons

Olin Kreutz: Bears / Saints

Sharrif Floyd: Vikings

Lem Barney: Lions

NFC South

Roddy White: Falcons

Warren Sapp: Buccaneers / Raiders

Morten Anderson: Saints / Falcons / Giants / Chiefs / Vikings

Kevin Greene: Rams / Steelers / Panthers / 49ers

AFC North

Curtis Martin: Patriots / Jets

Rodney Harrison: Chargers / Patriots

Larry Csonka: Dolphins / Giants

Mario Williams: Texans / Bills / Dolphins

AFC West

Eric Weddle: Chargers / Ravens / Rams

Phillip Buchanon: Raiders / Texans / Buccaneers / Lions / Football team

Delta O'neal: Broncos / Bengals / Patriots

Priest Holmes: Ravens / Chiefs

AFC North

Joe Thomas: Browns

Terrell Suggs: Ravens / Cardinals / Chiefs

Carson Palmer: Bengals / Raiders / Cardinals

Joey Porter: Steelers / Dolphins / Cardinals

AFC South

Andre Johnson: Texans / Colts / Titans

Vince Young: Titans / Eagles

Tony Boselli: Jaguars

John Mackey: Colts / Chargers

Made a post last week about finishing season 1, but this show actually just gets better. I've enjoyed every season so far, love the characters (except Billings, fuck "Captain" Billings) and the story.

Antwon is an amazing antagonist. Shane abusing him and talking about his son during the interrogation was very intense, one of my favourite scenes. Same when the other captain did it.

Kavanaugh (and the actor of course) is just the best. He's so creepy, the way he pretended to have an autistic child and then his failed attempt to get revenge on Vic for having sex with his ex-wife. He's just a really really awesome character.

I have to say, this show feels really underrated. I don't hear enough about it. Looking forward to finishing it off and getting to enjoy this entire subreddit after.

edit [ending]: >!how did I forget to mention Lem being killed by Shane. The whole scene before it I was just wishing Shane wouldn't do it, but I knew he would. No clue what this is gonna lead to but I feel like it will have consequences even if Shane never admits it to Vic.!<

Looking for SF novels/short stories that deals with the idea that some 'lifeforms' could be beyond human comprehension, they could be aliens or something else. 'They're Made Out of Meat' was a short story somewhat like that. Even Annihilation, where the researches don't know what they are dealing with and the way it affects them is abstract and mindbending.

Prefer stand alone books over series.

Thanks !!

Update - I didn't expect so many responses :) I haven't been able to reply to everyone individually but you should know that I am so happy for all your suggestions, have been noting them and updating my to-read list.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I think Ronnie.

Since it was just announced that the $699 MILLION jackpot was just won, here's what you should do to protect yourself, your winnings, and family. This detailed information was posted by /u/BlakeClass years ago and it's always entertaining to re-read what people should do in the event they win the lottery: SOURCE

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So, what the hell DO you do if you are unlucky enough to win the lottery?

This is the absolutely most important thing you can do right away: NOTHING.

Yes. Nothing.

DO NOT DECLARE YOURSELF THE WINNER yet.

Do NOT tell anyone. The urge is going to be nearly irresistible. Resist it. Trust me.

#1. IMMEDIATELY retain an attorney.

Get a partner from a larger, NATIONAL firm. Don't let them pawn off junior partners or associates on you. They might try, all law firms might, but insist instead that your lead be a partner who has been with the firm for awhile. Do NOT use your local attorney. Yes, I mean your long-standing family attorney who did your mother's will. Do not use the guy who fought your dry-cleaner bill. Do not use the guy you have trusted your entire life because of his long and faithful service to your family. In fact, do not use any firm that has any connection to family or friends or community. TRUST me. This is bad. You want someone who has never heard of you, any of your friends, or any member of your family. Go the the closest big city and walk into one of the national firms asking for one of the "Trust and Estates" partners you have previously looked up on http://www.martindale.com from one of the largest 50 firms in the United States which has an office near you. You can look up attornies by practice area and firm on Martindale.

#2. Decide to take the lump sum.

Most lotteries pay a really pathetic rate for the annuity. It usually hovers around 4.5% annual return or less, depending. It doesn't take much to do better than this, and if you have the money already in cash, rather than leaving it in the hands of the state, you can pull from the capital whenever you like. If you take the annuity you won't have access to that cash. That could be good. It could be bad. It's probably bad unless you have a very addictive personality. If you need an allowance managed by the state, it is because you didn't listen to point #1 above.

Why not let the state just handle it for you and give you your al

Let me preface all of this by saying: Don't try smoking bath salts. As if you needed more reasons not to - temporary psychosis, permanent neurological issues, accidental suicide, etc.

Well here's one more for you. A warning. Many societies in the past believed some psychotropic substances opened gateways to other dimensions - sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. To speak with their elders or to higher powers capable of insights beyond our everyday perspective.

There are forces at work in this universe which operate on a level outside of our understanding.

And you do NOT want to meet them.

"I don't know about this, Lem."

"Quit being a baby and just smoke it! You said you wanted to try."

It was true, I had said that. But now that we were sitting there in my living room with bath salts stuffed into the pipe I usually smoked weed out of, I really didn't want to. They smelled like household cleaning chemicals sprinkled with cilantro. And I fucking HATE cilantro.

"Just do it. You go first then I will."

Fucking liar.

He held the pipe out to me, raising his eyebrows expectantly.

"Fine. But you better not chicken out again like you did with the salvia last time. I'm sitting over here tripping balls and you're filming on your damn phone and laughing at me the whole time."

"I won't, I won't. I promise."

His shit-eating grin told me otherwise.

Here’s where I should probably admit I have a substance abuse problem. I needed to get high, and couldn't stand the thought of going through the day sober. Even if that meant smoking this whack designer drug bullshit imported from who knew where.

I took the pipe from him, my hand trembling a bit, and put it to my lips, lighting it and inhaling. Then I was coughing. Huge, painful, ragged coughs as I was blowing out the awful, soapy taste of the smoke.

Things started to turn yellow, then red, then everything went black as I went downwards into a three dimensional tunnel of oblivion which filled my vision. My limbs felt gummy and elastic and I imagined it was akin to the sensation of being dropped into a black hole.

“Do you feel anything?” he asked as I keeled over, my face melting into the floor.

After that I don't remember anything until the following day. I rolled out of bed with a terrible headache and a blank space in my memory of what had happened the night prior. I picked up my phone to call Lem but he didn't answer. Instead I got his voicemail.

“Lem, call me back.

Was mainly doing cow runs for a sacred targe for my Pally, but I kept an eye out for good insight bases (Bills for levelling chars, threshers etc), monarchs for spirit, and potential armour bases for enigma. I didn't bother recording unusable items like one socket monarchs (except for sacred targes, just to log rarity).

If I write dusk shroud (4) it means a four socket dusk shroud. I also noted any high runes >= Lum or other interesting oddities. All done solo self-found with my trusty 0MF necro and his army of skeles, many cows went boom

drum roll... the results please:

• 3. Fal
• 8. Dusk Shroud (3)
• 10. Monarch
• 14. Monarch
• 21. Lum
• 22. Fal, Thresher
• 25. Lum
• 29. 3% faster walk speed, +4 all res. small charm
• 33. Eth Colossus Voulge
• 36. Thresher
• 38. Monarch (4), Gheeds
• 39. Colossus Voulge (4)
• 40. Thresher, Dusk Shroud
• 41. Sacred Targe (woo!), Monarch, Sacred Targe (4) - wait wat... both STs had +28 all res. too
• 45. Dusk Shroud, Bill
• 48. Fal
• 50. Monarch
• 51. Sacred Targe (1) - pfft
• 52. Mage Plate w/ 260 def, possible Enigma base!
• 58. G. Face, surprising find

[at run 60 I switched to /players3 as the patch was released on console]

• 63. Thresher
• 64. 2x Dusk Shroud
• 65. Monarch, Thresher, Bill
• 67. Thresher
• 68. Thresher, Eth. Superior Voulge (+7% dmg)
• 71. Ko, Lum, Eth. Superior Thresher (also +7% dmg - straight to Larzuk and made a nice obedience)
• 72. Fal
• 73. Thresher, Thresher (4)
• 79. Bill (4)
• 80. Sacred Targe (4) - another +28 all res. RNG is messing with me
• 82. Ormus Robes
• 83. Dusk Shroud
• 84. Ist, Sur (more runs like this please!)
• 86. Sacred Targe +12 all res. - bit more please ><
• 88. +1 Warcry grand charm, decent for the barb I'm levelling
• 89. Fal
• 90. Lem, Bill, Highlord's Wrath ammy (already had one, but I'll take a 2nd)
• 94. Bill
• 96. Eth. Sacred Targe +8 all res. just so RNG can mess with me one last time...
• 99. Mal
• 100. 7% MF Small Charm

all in all not a bad haul really, didn't get the ideal sacred targe but a +28 all res. will do for now! Surprised by no archon plates but Monarchs and Threshers are way more common than I thought, I swear when I wanted one they were nowhere to be found; desire sensor is a cruel mistress!

Notable rune summary: Lum x3, Ko, Fal x5, Lem, Mal, Ist, Sur

My fiance showed me this TikTok that strongly implies that JFK either was gay or had a gay relationship. I was skeptical, because history TikToks are notoriously unreliable with their facts and conclusions, but I don't know enough to actually dispute it. Is the video correct or is it a misrepresentation? Or is it just impossible to know?

I'm rewatching the show and often wondered what became of the characters after the series finale. Here are my speculations based on what I watched.

CLAUDETTE WYMS--------Continued to serve as Captain of The Barn until her debilitating illness forced her to step down. Before she left, Wyms was in hot water for dismantling the Strike Team when gang related crimes skyrocketed. With mounting scandals and lawsuits, Wyms was made the poster woman for failed policing. Despite the arrest of Ronnie Gardocki and vowing to keep the Barn free of corruption, Wyms actions didn't win her the favors of her superiors and she quietly resigned amid the controversy. Wyms succumbed to her disease with her family and Dutch by her side.

DUTCH WAGENBACH----------- Was promoted to captain upon the death of his old partner and friend Claudette Wyms. Dutch took the job with Wyms blessing and ran The Barn for a time before the Feds took over operations. He currently works as a detective in RHD in the Hollywood District.

STEVE BILLINGS-------------Still worked as a Detective at the Barn until he retired and became an investigator for a law firm.

JULIAN LOWE------------- Shot and killed in the line of duty during an ambush at a drug house.

DANI SOFER------------- Currently working as a detective in the Northwest. Raising her son Lee as a single mother. Severed all ties with Vic Mackey.

RONNIE GARDOCKI------------Serving time in an undisclosed prison in isolation from general population.

TINA HANLON-----------Promoted to sergeant and still working in Farmington.

VIC MACKEY------------After his three years in ICE was up, Mackey went into private security for a time. At one point he worked with BILLINGS at the same law firm and eventually got a gig working a private detail for an Alt Right Fundamentalist who agreed with Mackey's unorthodox tactics. Mackey maintains a low profile, but occasionally cruises the streets in his tinted window Sedan reminiscing about the old days. Vic has a million dollar contract on his head by the Cartel and Armenian Might and currently has several criminals from various gangs and mobs after him. Mackey lives in a single family house and has a housekeeper who comes by to clean his house. He's also having an affair with the housekeeper. Mackey's only friend is Joe Clark and his dog Lem.

THE BARN---------Due to the numerous controversies and lawsuits, The Barn was seized by the Feds and operated by them for a time. It's currently shuttered.

DAVID AC

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.