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Rod & Sunny: Photo by Bob Gentry 8/5/1999

A Thought for Today

The world does move, you better learn early to move with it.

 

SOMETH'NG for SATURDAY

No reason I can think of for not having a smile or two on a Saturday and Ralph Jones and Kathy Johnson help us do just that.

25 SIGNS That Prove - "You've Grown Up"....

1. Your house plants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.

2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.

3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.

5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.

6. You watch the Weather Channel.

7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.

14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds leftovers.

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.

17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

18. Eating a basket of buffalo wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.

24. You no longer drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you.

CAT STUFF

Cat Definition: Aquarium: interactive television for cats

Cat:
1. a lapwarmer with a built-in buzzer.
2. a four footed allergen.
3. a small, four-legged, fur-bearing extortionist.
4. a small, furry lap fungus.
5. a treat-seeking missile.
6. a wildlife control expert.
7. one who sleeps in old, empty pizza boxes.
8. a hair relocation expert.
9. an unprogrammable animal.

Cataclysm: any great upheaval in a cat's life.

Catatonic: a feline medicinal drink.

Caterpillar: a soft scratching post for a cat.

Cat Scan: to look for a new cat.

Dog: a cat's device for running practice.

Door: something a cat always wants to be on the other side of.

Energy: the element of vitality cats always have an oversupply of until you try to play with them.

Human: an automatic door opener for cats.

Impurrsonate: to act like the cat.

Kitten: a small homicidal muffin on legs; affects human sensibilities to the point of endowing the most wanton and ruthless acts of destruction with near-mythical overtones of cuteness. Not recommended for beginners. Get at least two.

Purrade: an organized march of cats.

Purradise: the garden of Cats.

Purramour: a cat lover.

Purranoia: the fear that your cat is up to something.

Purraphernalia: a cat's personal belongings.

Purrch: any favored feline napping spot.

Purrchase: anything bought for a cat.

Purrfume: the scent of an open can of tuna.

Purrgatory: a houseful of kittens.

Purrmission: a feline hunting expedition.

Purrpetual: everlasting feline love.

Purrplex: a house with two or more cats.

Purrson: a male kitten.

Purrsuit: the garment your shedding cat rubs against just as you are leaving home to go to an important meeting.

Purrverse: a poem about a wicked kitty.

Tooraloorailurophobia: an irrational fear of Irish cats.

Tuner: sonar-like device in cat food that causes cats to appear.

Yawn: a cat's honest opinion openly expressed.

 - Ken, Johannesburg, November 23

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FOOTBALL

 

It is because of my own inability
to discern messages on time
that I send words into the air
straight, through, never at random.
Paper airplanes hopes unleashed
              in unsuspecting lands
made by hands that would have made
                               a difference
if they knew how.

For those same reasons
I’m confetti spreader at the Mardi Gras,
wherever saints or non-saints march.
Here too my handfuls are directional.

I believe that to each David
should come his Michelangelo
or why is marble dredged from quarry?
To each Eliza, her Bernard
or how is language guarded?
Without a caring Carroll
                        for each Alice,
Black Holes would pock the landscape.
Those of us who’ve chose servitude
and put on uniforms to prove it
ought to keep antennas out.

The long and short of it,
to each David his own Michelangelo.
It justifies the uncarved stone.

                                - from "Suspension Bridge", 1984

 
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