by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/13/2025 5:34 PM
"Showing your receipts"
There's a phrase I notice more of recently from my mainstream-media bubble, such as on CBS Evening News television.
Futurama
"The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"
Season 3 Episode 7
Aired Feb 18, 2001
Quotes
Ken: Welcome back, Lord Nibbler, Ambassador to Earth, homeworld of the pizza bagel.
Nibbler: Thank you. I bear many receipts for reimbursement.
by me, Kerry Burgess: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:10 PM Thursday, July 28, 2011
Spooky.
At the risk of giving away too many personally identifying details, I cannot help but make this following observation. During the 10 AM hour this morning here in Pacific time in Washington State, I was at the grocery store. I had the thought to pick up a bag of Lifesavers candy. I rarely if ever purchase candy but I was thinking about it as I walked to the grocery store and I had thought before, as I was then, about that scene from the 2002 film "Windtalkers." I had no specific reason for purchasing that item in relation to that film "Windtalkers" but I did think about it a great deal among the thousands of details that circulate around in my conscious mind during the day. I would not even note that detail about that Lifesavers candy here in my web log except for one other detail. Somehow, the total bill for the groceries I took to the self-checkout line totaled *precisely* $33.59. That was after tax. I thought about that, especially in the context of observations I have made lately in my web log in the internet, as I left the store and walked back to my apartment and I wondered, as I always wonder about the suspicious behavior of people in that grocery store, if someone in the back office had automatically adjusted the prices on my items so that such a total would be reached. Perhaps. But that becomes less likely the more I think about it. I wasn't consciously calculating a running total of the items I was selecting as I already had decided in my mind before I went in there as to what I would buy. Looking at the receipt, the prices are consistent with what I remember from the shelves where I got the items. I wondered why did that happen today. That happened today and that first time in years and decades since I bought Lifesavers candy.
Of course, according to my time traveler communication theory then that had to happen. I write about it here now in my journal and then it has to happen. Okay, so since everything I record in my journal has to happen then just ten minutes after I post this note, I will get an email telling me where that house is that still belongs to me, which is in this local area, and that I can go there at that very moment if I want to. Since I am now writing this in my journal then that has to happen because that is what I strongly want to happen. A universe time paradox of galactic scale will happen if I do not get that email ten minutes later.
Windtalkers
We've got some new radiomen
from headquarters.
Private Whitehorse...
and Yahzee...
and a couple of sergeants...
Enders and Henderson...
who, if I'm understanding
these orders correctly...
will be covering our Navajos' asses.
God damn you, Joe Enders.
...but I'm telling you...
we're going to be stepping into
our share of the shit, nonetheless.
Any questions?
Sounds like you're dying.
These might help get rid of the taste.
Charlie and I both lost it
on the boat ride from San Diego.
Not many bodies of water in Arizona.
Life Savers really helped.
You want a Life Saver?
What are you doing here?
Just trying to help.
Not what I meant.
You mean, what am I doing in this uniform?
It's my war, too, Sergeant.
I'm fighting for my country,
for my land, for my people.
It's not your people I'm worried about.
Listen, Enders, I'm a codetalker.
It takes me two and a half minutes
to do what used to take an hour.
Somebody wearing a lot more stripes
than you thinks that's worth something.
Remind me to time you when you've got
bullets flying over your head.
What the hell is wrong with you?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 July 2011 excerpt ends]
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/14/2021
Just had to go over there again this morning. Just had to.
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) to 2/26/1973 ( premiere US TV movie "The Stranger" ) is 3012 days
From 11/6/2000 ( premiere USA film "Red Planet" ) To 4/14/2021 ( ) is 7464 days
7464 = 3732 + 3732
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars, 165 days before his strike to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening extinction by death and destruction to all life on this planet Earth and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 3732 days
From 2/24/1994 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Deep Space Homer" ) To 4/14/2021 ( ) is 9911 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/21/1992 ( official State of South Carolina documents, date recorded by State of South Carolina: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" the house I owned on Country Club Drive in South Carolina, USA ) is 9911 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070742/releaseinfo
IMDb (dot) com
The Stranger (1973 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 26 February 1973
Full Cast & Crew
Glenn Corbett ... Neil Stryker
An astronaut finds himself on a planet that's (almost) exactly like Earth.
"Deep Space Homer" [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 24-Feb-94
Homer's next phone call from Moe's is to the President of the United States.
Homer: Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you. ...Shut up!
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:47 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 06/13/2025
