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Cuckolds, Capons, and Cod Queens.

November 1st, 2023.

Introduction.

I trust that you've watched the NQN trailer three or four times now,

and so you have noticed the line about apocalypse proofing your family.

The first step in learning how to do this is to learn how to quit doing the things

that do not work at all.

Well, correct that actually.

The first thing to do is to quit doing the things that are causing the problem.

And then after that, to quit trotting out the solutions that don't work at all.

One of the lame maneuvers is that of pretending that no apocalypse is happening,

and hence there's no need to do anything.

That works about as well as you might expect.

The others to recognize that there are, in fact, grave threats,

hurtling toward you and your family in the form of fireballs,

the size of grapefruit.

And so you undertake to ward them off with the shield that you obtained for 1995

from Joyce Meyer Ministries.

That shield is made out of balsa wood and tissue paper,

and in the insult to injury department, the tissue paper is pink.

And far from slowing anything down, these shields just made the fireballs

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