Watching Me Wax and Wane

Actual sign: jungle ice enter What I read: uncle ice eater Misheard: Two men were arrested after having their vaginas pierced. Misheard: AT&T’s global douche farm. Not technically misheard, but heard with a double take: Somebody turned over the ‘tater cart. Not technically misheard, but still: Bethesda Naval Hospital. (Surprised they have hospitals just for…

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Death and All of His Friends

“No I don’t wanna battle from beginning to end  I don’t wanna cycle, recycle revenge I don’t wanna follow death and all of his friends.” -Coldplay On a few previous occasions I wrote about deaths of friends, like Jeff and Debbie. I have not written until now about the death of Kathy. One reason for this…

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Rev Uh Lay Shun

“Reveal” is a verb, as in, “She will reveal her secret at the meeting in the morning.” The noun is “revelation,” as in, “I can’t wait to hear her revelation in the morning.” Just because Americans are too lazy too use four-syllable words instead of two-syllable words, or because we heard some celebrity say it…

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The Rules

Rule #11: When a balloon pops, always say, “Oh, the humanity.” Rule #66: Eat rendered koos koos. Rule #12: Have a beer, neat. Rule #98: It’s the porcupine apocalypse. Rule #22: Wear a pleasant blouse. Rule #7: Take as many naps as possible, preferably inside a tree hollowed out specifically for sleeping. Rule #29: Always…

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Another Fun Fact

[stextbox id=”warning” caption=”Did You Know?”]Jonathan Boyce is largely credited with creating the scouting movement in America when, in 1910, he founded the “Boyce Scouts.” Since very few girls joined the organization in its early days, the name was changed to Boy Scouts of America. It wasn’t until two years later that girls had a similar…

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The Rhapsody of Springtime

It was another busy day for me at the news mill, but by evening Abby and I had settled in. A cold from that helped spawn tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area just 120 miles south of us, and thunderstorms here all day yesterday, finally passed late this afternoon, leaving cool evening temps and a…

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And by the Way, You’re Fired

“Today’s actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo! — smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require. We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. Our goal is to get back to our…

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Sunny Sunday, Mowing Monday

Abby and I went to her hometown, Ryan, Oklahoma, yesterday, to see her father’s widow Ethel. We brought her lunch, KFC as usual, and she gave us cookies and cream ice cream (I know, “cream” twice, but whatever.) After lunch we were visited by Abby’s sister Gail, Gail’s daughter Rachel, and Rachel’s kids Ally and…

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