“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.” – Louis Aragon, Treatise of Style (1928) Are you sur real?! Come on! Who would come up with a quotation like that?! Apparently, a 20th century French poet who was the bastard son of a former politician and a… Continue reading Who’s Your Dada?
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What is: “You can’t keep that hoedown.” Correct! I’ll take Misunderstood Country Music Songs for $1,000, please.
Name that movie – part 3
“Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not ‘Every man for himself.’ And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, [redacted]. I looked them up.” Big Chill. Halloween. Flying Circus. Is this one too easy? The… Continue reading Name that movie – part 3
Name that movie
“Spandex: it’s a privilege, not a right.” OK, that’s not too hard if you fancy yourself as a geek. I mean, really, a young Angelina Jolie. An overly-emoting Lorraine Bracco. Characters named “Razor” and “Blade.” Marc Anthony as a Secret Service agent. Need more hints? 1995. Hack the Planet. 34% Rotten Tomatoes’ score from the… Continue reading Name that movie
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Contestant: What is: “How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!” [Ed. We’ve talked about this. No more of that or I’ll be forced to send you to time out.] [Author: Sorry… I’ll take holoalphabetic sentences for $800, please. Sticks tongue out.]
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Contestant: What is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes”? Host: That is correct! Contestant: I’ll take holoalphabetic sentences for $600, please. The question I get most often on my posts is “Why in the world do you think of these things?” followed closely by “Is there someone working on a vaccine or a cure?” Absent a… Continue reading Snippet 12
Where does your mind go when you lose it?
We’ve all heard something like, “I am losing my mind!” but have you ever thought about where you mind goes when you lose it? When you temporarily lose your car keys, they go someplace, for example, the ice cube tray. [I don’t want to know. -ed] But when “lost” they are still somewhere so they… Continue reading Where does your mind go when you lose it?
How do you catch a bra?
With a booby trap, of course. The picture is mine of a blue-footed booby in the Galapagos Islands. Some of my humor has been accused of being at the fourth-grade level. I think that is unfair. Most of it is not that sophisticated.
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Contestant: What is “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”? Host: Correct! Contestant: I’ll take holoalphabetic sentences for $400, please.
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“Hang tight” and “Hang loose” mean the same thing. I was waiting for a Teams call to start, and it said “Hang tight, someone will let you in shortly.” OK, that’s fine, but then I thought it should actually be “tightly” since it is an adverb and is telling me how to hang. They got… Continue reading Snippet 10