Friday, August 08, 2014

Pantyhose; Match.com; Groups; Q's; Atom Bomb; Uniforms; Iraq; Opera; Lions; Crime Cases

Nice low humidity Summer day.


"Nothing ever gets anywhere.  The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere.  The moment is the only thing that counts."  Jean Cocteau


01.  Different strokes..


Chinese ladies can now buy hairy leg pantyhose!


02.  Well, you set it up


Gary Kramer founded match.com in 1993.  It has led to lots of engagements and marriages, except for one notable exception: Gary himself.  He and his girlfriend broke up and she married someone she met on match.com.


03.  Nice to know, Brother Joe


Geico says that a group of wombats is called a wisdom.


Reader's Digest lists the following from A Compendium of Collective Nouns by Woop Studios:


A group of accountants is  called a balance.
A group of librarians is called a shush.
A group of dentists is called a wince.
A group of bowlers is called a keg.
A group of dermatologists is called a rash.
A group of creditors is called a curse.


04.  Don't accuse me


In response to a puzzle she liked, where all the answers began with the letter Q, Mensa member Kathie Morgan wrote the following poem:


I was in a quandary.
Yes, I was on a quest.
You were the quintessence
Of all I thought the best.
How quickly did I acquiesce
To all you planned to do
In a queue in Albuquerque
Taking all my Qs from U.


05.  Most killed with one bomb? (yet)


"Dutch" Van Kirk died recently at age 93.  He was the World War II pilot who dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.. instantly frying 80,000 people!


06.  Take off your damned pajamas and dress up!


I'm looking at a color picture of U.S. soldiers  in their stupid-looking camouflage clothing and wearing those berets to cover their hair scalpings.  What has happened to pride in dress?  These guys don't look like military men.. they look like they just got out of bed and still have their baggy, wrinkled pajamas on.  Even the officers look sloppy.  I know.. we are trying to copy the Russian uniforms that were designed so that nobody knew what anyone's rank was, because that was the Communistic way.  The only problem was, everybody was in charge and who  could dispute that when all uniforms looked the same?


07.  Poem for Baghdad


Spread the word throughout Iraq.
Let all know that Sam is back.


08.  Culture Once More Comes to Carroll County


Donizetti's delightful opera, L'elisir d'amore will be playing at the Community College this weekend. Two versions will be given.. one with experienced players.. one with new-comers ("emerging young artists").  Sounds like a lot of fun.


09.  Carroll County Lions Newspaper


Today's Carroll County Times had 11 color photos of Lions Club activity in its "Neighborhood Section", three of the pictures had my friend Gary Buchman receiving some kind of recognition.  He deserves it, I'm sure.   But.. what I want to know is... what does a Lions' Tail Twister do?


10.  Kid Crime?


Today's newspaper had a picture of another 20-year old, baby-faced "criminal," busted for having pot, plastic baggies, and brass knuckles in his car.  What the hell was this kid going to do with brass knuckles?  Are they considered deadly weapons?  And.. pot.. a few months from now it will be legal.. then what will happen to this kid?  Will  he be released?


11.  More Kid Crime


Yesterday, a group of kids were caught after carjacking a Baltimore School Bus.  This would not be too bad, except that they beat up on the driver.  That gives them an assault offense.  I assume the carjackers were all boys... maybe not.  Anyway.. its another stupid thing for kids to do.


12.  Even More Crime ... a real busy guy is busted


A Glen Burnie, Maryland man was recently arrested on I-95 for drug possession.  He has had quite a record in his 45 years of life:  56 arrests;  38 convictions; 43 failures to appear in court..  He also carries 23 known aliases, 11 dates of birth, 15 Social Security Numbers, and is wanted in Virginia.
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1 comment:

Chris Vaughan said...

In reference to your Jean Cocteau quote, we are heading somewhere fast - but its such a long way away it feels like we're not moving. In just 3-4 billion years (depending on whom you believe), we'll collide with our inter-galactic neighbor the Andromeda galaxy; in 100 trillion years of so we'll all wind up at the end of our journey - precisely nowhere - as the universe winds down in a Big Freeze.

2. That's an example of poetic justice if I ever heard (read) one!

3. Maybe: A group of little girls could be a giggle; a group of little boys could be a trouble; a group of mothers-in-law could be a ton; a group of ex-wives could be a whammy; a groupd of car salesmen could be a crook; and a group of geeks could be a nerd herd.

10. I don't think dealing will ever be legal. Maybe he can become a licensed distributor. If he does, then he can call the cops in instead of having to rely on his brass knucks.

11. Another trouble of boys causing problems...

12. Maybe the 20-year old from #10 can be his protege in the big house?