Great, great April Fool's article, Jeff! Clever, funny, and all of CC gets the joke! The Kenmore part was the funniest. Thanks for the laughs and have a fun, fun day.
This takes me back to a childhood memory. Mom used to brag to her friends that she didn’t need a dishwasher. She already had three belt-driven dishwashers (Larry, Deana, and Don). Ahhh, the good old days. 🤫😏
You know what's not a joke? The Gazette has a story about the Jamestown tribe wanting the Dungeness Refuge land transfer. We've known about it for a while and now they're public about it. Our congressional rep and senators are behind it.
And it turns my stomach that former Gazette editor Mike Dashiell is now the PR guy for the Jamestown tribe. I know everybody has bills to pay but geez.
Let the tribe have what they want, right after they pay the county all the decades of not paying taxes and their fair share. A concept unheard of currently. We could use the funding, but our spending CC commissioners would need to be on a budget!
BUDGET….hey commissioners have you seen this word in practice? You do know the meaning, right?
If they don't spend all of the money by the end of the calendar year they lose an allotment the following year. The commissionaires have a different ideology I believe. We will never reach agreement on the basic tenor of the discussion, I think.
In other words, beware a woman who washes dishes by hand and spent her teen years engrossed in learning about Ted Bundy. Maybe if Ted had memes he would have chosen a different path. Thanks for the April First LOLs!
What is a dishwasher? Me. Gets the muck out of my nails. I love it, could do it all day, night. Splish splash, steel wool and plastic sponges, love them. I even take a bath in the dishpan water, some food left to munch while bathing.
MK, I don't know what Merino means either. Does it have to do with my underwear? I wear granny panties, ordered in bulk. But, I do liven them up with different colors! Bless my heart.
Jean Pratschner I cut my nails as short as possible because the filth that forms under them requires only a few days. I don't work on a farm and yet I filth always forms under my fingernails if I don't trim them.
And Clallam County Taxpayers wouldn't have to pay. A poet laureate isn't rocket science. In fact, most of the poems posted only make sense to the poet. Roses are Red Violets are Blue who the hell authorized to pay you?
The three blind mice, see how they run, see how they spend!
I bet our “POET” is some English lit major with a blood relative living in Clallam County. I would like to paint fire hydrants. Has that position opened up yet? Let me know, I could really add FUN to the area.
Once they own something they can do anything they want with it because they're a sovereign nation. I'm being sarcastic here (I think) but if they wanted to turn them into floating casinos or only allow tribal members to ride, they could.
Yep, will be better. But you and I will certainly pay for it, not the Tribe, they will profit from it and not pay taxes on the profit....sooo is better worth it?
Hold onto your shorts. There will be more positions for red herring in all Washington state agencies. There are new laws that the State passes citing no unilateral actions can be taken without consulting with a red herring first.
Essentially nothing the state does from here on out won't happen without first consulting with and then receiving approval from the tribes. This comes from the concept that you've likely heard of as "government to government" relations. In order to further weave that concept into everything the state does they now hire into a multitude of state jobs someone who's essentially handling the consulting to harden that concept.
I pretty much generalize it all as "red herring," to wit, this ridiculous state ferry job. More beaurocracy taking tax payer dollars to hire someone whose soul mission has nothing to do with the actual situation they've been hired into.
Before you know it a ferry won't sail, or be built first without tribal consultation or something ridiculous like that.
Brilliant!
Hilarious…….but not way too close to accurate to be hilarious.
Great, great April Fool's article, Jeff! Clever, funny, and all of CC gets the joke! The Kenmore part was the funniest. Thanks for the laughs and have a fun, fun day.
This takes me back to a childhood memory. Mom used to brag to her friends that she didn’t need a dishwasher. She already had three belt-driven dishwashers (Larry, Deana, and Don). Ahhh, the good old days. 🤫😏
"Belt driven"~!
HA~! Very funny :)
Sincerely, Mike
Shit. I threw my cheese knife away before I realized this was an April Fool's story.
The Babylon Bee makes it to Sequim.
MK so now that you have discarded the cheese knife may we assume that your ability to "cut the cheese" is limited.
Off topic, when I was small boy we used a special device that had instead of a blade strong sharp metal strings to slice our cheese property.
Well, no, not exactly. 😬
Love it!! We needed to come up for air. LOL
It takes Nick and I a couple of days to fill up a dishwasher... (with no grandkids)
How many days it would take a single person to fill a dishwasher with ONE plate, ONE fork, ONE cup, ONE spoon?
"Oh Jeff, you might be surprised that other people don't have the same beliefs as you".
carry on sir.... LOVE IT!! :-)
Truth is stranger than fiction, isn't it? This is fab!!!
Very clever Jeff. Lightened my heart a bit. Unfortunately it came crashing back down to reality.
WS DOT. I need a job.
And the sign said
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why
He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man
I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that
Huh, me workin' for you"
Whoa
….Retired
Ken, had to play it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU0P_TCHtMM
The song's been in my head all day!
You know what's not a joke? The Gazette has a story about the Jamestown tribe wanting the Dungeness Refuge land transfer. We've known about it for a while and now they're public about it. Our congressional rep and senators are behind it.
https://www.sequimgazette.com/2026/04/01/jamestown-seeks-land-transfer-of-dungeness-refuge-protection-island/
Emily Randall needs to pay her contributors back.
Amen.
And it turns my stomach that former Gazette editor Mike Dashiell is now the PR guy for the Jamestown tribe. I know everybody has bills to pay but geez.
SomeSome, what turns my stomach it that it will never be known how much Mike D. was paid to go there. It's behind the Tribal Iron Curtain.
IMO Jennifer the second sentence is a perfect analogy.
The process involves a bureaucratic brain conditioned to like a predator pounce upon any profitable opportunity independent of ethics.
Let the tribe have what they want, right after they pay the county all the decades of not paying taxes and their fair share. A concept unheard of currently. We could use the funding, but our spending CC commissioners would need to be on a budget!
BUDGET….hey commissioners have you seen this word in practice? You do know the meaning, right?
Susan C Bonallo IMO the characteristics of a budget are very similar to a new diet.
If they don't spend all of the money by the end of the calendar year they lose an allotment the following year. The commissionaires have a different ideology I believe. We will never reach agreement on the basic tenor of the discussion, I think.
Good one Patriot Susan C Bonallo~!
The Clallam County "Three Stooges" never met a budget that they didn't break~! ;-)
Have a spiffy day~!
Sincerely, Mike
In other words, beware a woman who washes dishes by hand and spent her teen years engrossed in learning about Ted Bundy. Maybe if Ted had memes he would have chosen a different path. Thanks for the April First LOLs!
No girls in my family. I can give the women a run for their money.
Men just can’t stay out of women’s sports, can they? LOL.
What is a dishwasher? Me. Gets the muck out of my nails. I love it, could do it all day, night. Splish splash, steel wool and plastic sponges, love them. I even take a bath in the dishpan water, some food left to munch while bathing.
Real women wash dishes, or leave them until husband realizes there are no clean plates. No one said retirement would be easy!
🤣
A well honed skill I share after mastering dry camping on travels.
Mk, I've done so much dry off road camping that I realized why underwear has two sides!
I heard that the distinction was between front and back.
I have never understood the point of underwear. Apparently, it adds a few more items for the washing machine.
OMG ROFL.
Mk, I don't know what ROFL means, but it worked, at least for a few days... ; )
Rolling on the floor laughing...
Merino!
MK, I don't know what Merino means either. Does it have to do with my underwear? I wear granny panties, ordered in bulk. But, I do liven them up with different colors! Bless my heart.
Jean Pratschner I cut my nails as short as possible because the filth that forms under them requires only a few days. I don't work on a farm and yet I filth always forms under my fingernails if I don't trim them.
Madge never told her she was soaking in it.
Madge was a fox 😆
Kind of a red headed Phyllis Diller.
Love it!
You’re a pip, Jeff. You should apply for Clallum County story teller laureate job.
And Clallam County Taxpayers wouldn't have to pay. A poet laureate isn't rocket science. In fact, most of the poems posted only make sense to the poet. Roses are Red Violets are Blue who the hell authorized to pay you?
The three blind mice, see how they run, see how they spend!
I bet our “POET” is some English lit major with a blood relative living in Clallam County. I would like to paint fire hydrants. Has that position opened up yet? Let me know, I could really add FUN to the area.
Your humor is contagious! Thank you for this.
I really had to stop and wonder if the part about the DOT tribal liaison was true, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
It's true, and so are the rate hikes. "Kenmore" wasn't true, but someone had already emailed me to say her son is named Kenmore.
Seriously? A liaison for DOT?
Yep, and a well-paid one at that.
Next they'll be buying all the ferries.
Will they buy them or will they be 'reparations'?
If electrified, to meet the Washington State Department of Commerce grant requirements, then reparations.
My bad, reparations for sure.
Kathy, and paid for by funding through our tax dollars! Do they actually pay for the Christmas Lights? NOT!
Maybe the service might/could be better?
Once they own something they can do anything they want with it because they're a sovereign nation. I'm being sarcastic here (I think) but if they wanted to turn them into floating casinos or only allow tribal members to ride, they could.
Yep, will be better. But you and I will certainly pay for it, not the Tribe, they will profit from it and not pay taxes on the profit....sooo is better worth it?
Hold onto your shorts. There will be more positions for red herring in all Washington state agencies. There are new laws that the State passes citing no unilateral actions can be taken without consulting with a red herring first.
MK, what are those? You have my teeth floating and my bladder clenched.
Essentially nothing the state does from here on out won't happen without first consulting with and then receiving approval from the tribes. This comes from the concept that you've likely heard of as "government to government" relations. In order to further weave that concept into everything the state does they now hire into a multitude of state jobs someone who's essentially handling the consulting to harden that concept.
I pretty much generalize it all as "red herring," to wit, this ridiculous state ferry job. More beaurocracy taking tax payer dollars to hire someone whose soul mission has nothing to do with the actual situation they've been hired into.
Before you know it a ferry won't sail, or be built first without tribal consultation or something ridiculous like that.
MK please to examine the bright prospect when the new excise tax on income for millionaires begins to trickle down to the middle class.
Boooooo