TOUCHSTONE: This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect yourself with them? ROSALIND: Peace, you dull fool. I found them on a tree. TOUCHSTONE: Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
Category: humor
Mar 17
Gaels
“For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.” –G.K. Chesterton, from The Ballad of the White Horse
Mar 03
Wind beneath my wings
One time Kaleb and I went to work on a printer. While we were there, a young female doctor was in the room. The three of us bantered back and forth for a while until the printer was finally fixed and it began to spit out backed up print jobs. Doctor: “You guys are the …
Feb 26
“Yay! You have provided magic!”
This is what one of my customers told me this morning when I fixed her problem without actually doing anything.
Feb 20
Nothing to be jealous of…
Madman posted recently that he was ‘surprised’ at the amount of activity to the blog right after I posted my first post after a several year hiatus. Really, there isn’t anything to be jealous of. People like variety in their diet. I know when I eat the same thing daily, like salads, there comes a …
Feb 15
Valentine’s Leftovers
In my post yesterday I kept trying to find a way to abbreviate ‘Valentine’s Day’ (besides just leaving off the ‘St.’ like everyone else). After all, we abbreviate ‘Christmas’ as ‘Xmas.’ But how would we abbreviate Valentine’s Day? Expressing it as ‘VD’ just doesn’t sound right for a holiday that celebrates love. Still, it wouldn’t …
Jan 22
Quotable: Sam Duncan
“From the day that you’re born to the day you ride in the hearse things are never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.” Sam Duncan was an African American educator in Higginsville, Missouri from the 1950s-1970s where he taught a number of classes and coached several sports. The high school’s football field is named …
Jan 04
Uh…
I took this pic of a car in Kansas City. I’m not big on vinyl window decals anyway, but this is just…wrong:
