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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
-- Eric Sevareid
Next Friday will not be your lucky day.
As a matter of fact, you don't have a lucky day this year.
God doesn't play dice.
-- Albert Einstein
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
-- Joe Walsh
"Verily and forsooth," replied Goodgulf darkly. "In the past
year strange and fearful wonders I have seen. Fields sown with barley
reap crabgrass and fungus, and even small gardens reject their
artichoke hearts. There has been a hot day in December and a blue
moon. Calendars are made with a month of Sundays and a blue-ribbon
Holstein bore alive two insurance salesmen. The earth splits and the
entrails of a goat were found tied in square knots. The face of the
sun blackens and the skies have rained down soggy potato chips."
"But what do all these things mean?" gasped Frito.
"Beats me," said Goodgulf with a shrug, "but I thought it made
good copy."
-- Harvard Lampoon, "Bored of the Rings"
Fairy Tale, n.:
A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
The Third Law of Photography:
If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined
when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark
leaks out.
Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole
or street lamp.
Friday, 13 February 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
