These are the things that scamper through my lil' brain; catch them and let them make you smile a-while, and then let them go freely on their way a-gain... Ernest S. B. Boston
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2009-05-26
On The 3.5th Day Before Christmas My Uncle Said To Me
Niece M - is excited there is only 4 days until Christmas :)!!!
Uncle E - Isn't it closer to 3.5 days?
Niece M - I know!! But if I did it that way I would have to change it like every hour and I just dont think I am willing to do that :) So I will stick to the rounded number! :)
Uncle E - I agree you should stick with "rounded numbers" anD my answer is mUCh more 'round', just look: 4 versus 3.5 - see how straight the '4' looks? How many round parts ->ZERO!!! Now look at my numero: 3.5 - its got all kindza roundies, two on the 3, the "." is completely round and the "five" - has one, so that is 2+1+1 equals "four" - notice how I spelled out MY four so that it would be rounded, it has 4 roundie parts. And to think I have a minor in math. My surely dead-by-now-cause-he-was-ancient-back-then first college calculus professor is probably rolling over in his grave right now.
Niece M - haha i dont even know what to say to that!!!
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(a few people now begin to giggle)
like a Christmas tree and let the folks downtown have the goofy looking bottom portion
(more people smiling, giggling even harder, just barely contained)
THEN someone on the west side of the room immediately speaks up and says, "all in favor of Ernie's idea, raise your right hand!" and of course the entire room shot their hands in the air with laughter and said "aye".
Invention Link: The Next Invention in My Blog
I Name and Rename Two Teenage Girls at the Groc Store
Marked for Life
I replied, "That is weird, even for hippies, and yet follows an Indian tradition."
"I do think I fared better than my sister Tab though"
"I don't think that sounds very Indian or weird"
"Its because it is just the first piece of my twin sister's middle name, 'Picnic Table'"
The Evolution of My Old and New Pen(cil) Names
The New
Dr Sue Sez - another feminine name?
Dr Soo Sez - no, already have one feminine pen name, lets sound a little more Oriental, which I am not, adds a bit of confusion.
Dr Sioux Sez - Oh! Lets go with a piece of my Dakota heritage even though I am not Indian, at least I don't think so, and surely not Sioux. No reference to the Johnny Cash song, that was 'A Boy Named Sue'
Dr Sioux Says - ah, yes, I like that, it sounds like a sentence, Dr Sioux is making a proclamation.......
(Do you shun vowel e-vol-u-tion? You do?!?!?)
Squirrel Assassins
I have evidence that squirrels are trying to kill my dog.
a) I have no nut trees on my property.
b) Whole pecans are showing up in my back yard right under the "Squirrel Monorail" furnished by utility companies.
c) Squirrels sit on the SquirMono and see their deadly adversary (Cooper) jumping up and down barking and snarling and have watched his behavior to learn that he is a true omnivore - one squirrel told the others at an emergency local squirrel session, "I've seen him, he tries to eat basketballs and empty coffee cans and hippos - he must be 'elimi-nut-ed', do I see a show of tails wagging in agreement?",
A flurry of furry fans the meeting room,
"do I have a volunteer assassin?"
--silence--
"what a bunch of chickens"; exclaims the leader, "guess we'll have to get outside help for this job"
Yesterday’s MISTS-ery and Assassination Explained (It was just me messing around)
My German Slept-herd
I have trained my dog to do something very useful. Herd sleep. Sheep? No, sleep. I gave him a verbal request to get my wife out of bed to make us breakfast. This is more proof that he has learned the word 'bacon'. He not only went by himself and made his usual request "noises", but got his "nose" in on the action too, getting up on the bed trying to push my wife out of bed. I had been sick for several days with no end in sight, so I needed the pampering and he came to my, or rather, our rescue on cue. The wifey came through the living room grinning and asking, "Did you tell him to come get me out of bed ?!?!? I've never had him do that before. He was up there pushing me out of bed".
Now, I would only ever ask my dog to do something that I would do myself. I asked him to get my wife out of bed to make us breakfast. Licking her on the face was his idea, and it obviously worked.