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@bodhipaksa

Pick out your brick. Your good intentions will fly with it. 

@bodhipaksa πŸ˜‚

Took me a sec, but I got there.

@bodhipaksa No handbasket, but there is a bucket over there you can use.

@_the_cloud

Oddly, it didn't look like AI slop when I took the photograph on Daniel St in Portsmouth NH, yesterday afternoon at 2:05 PM. It looked kind of ... real?

@bodhipaksa Ah, I worried my post might be taken the wrong way. Not saying your photo is AI slop. I'm just imagining what the bucket that everything's going to hell in is currently holding.
@bodhipaksa @_the_cloud shouldn't it have been in Helena?

@bodhipaksa

My late mother-in-law who was born in 1920 in NYC always said it "going to hell in a handcart" which does make more sense to me, so there are regional variations.

@cassandracorvid I've heard both, and that version makes more sense to me as well.

I tracked down the earliest known usage of the expression a few years ago, but I can't find where I saved the reference. There's been debate about whether it was a US or UK usage originally. The usage I found was British.

@bodhipaksa where are the flames?