Tag Archives: Words

A Crowded Language

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Today’s guest post comes from Clyde. We speak, by far, the language with the most words in it. The Germans manage to converse precisely, thank you, with something like a fourth or a fifth of our lexicon. We have lots … Continue reading →

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Dark Spot

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Electricity is great. I’m officially spoiled! Thanks to electricity we can stay up late and read after dark and go out to eat when we really should be in bed after a long day of exhausting manual labor. I admit … Continue reading →

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Talking Animals

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Why do we have the Internet? So we can know that somewhere there is a goat who takes its language cues from chickens. But surely there is more to this than a simple story about an impressionistic young ungulate being … Continue reading →

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Deadline Pressure

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

Seeing with considerable satisfaction the way a ticking clock got the deadbeats in the US Congress to finally pass a piece of (imperfect) legislation, I commissioned Schuyler Tyler Wyler, America’s Rhyming Poet Laureate, to write a few lines about the … Continue reading →

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Idea People

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

Today’s post, for the second day in a row, comes from Dealmaker and Promoter Spin Williams, who is constantly in residence at The Meeting That Never Ends. Wow! What a fine group of Idea Generators you are! I saw lots … Continue reading →

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Happy Dozens Day!

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

We are in a pivotal time for humankind – the era of paranoid obsession over the numbers that appear on our calendar. Oh, wait a minute. That’s every era. So far, the way the numbers roll up in the date … Continue reading →

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Do the Right (or the Wrong) Thing!

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

Today’s post comes from the Honorable Loomis Beechly, representing Minnesota’s fabled 9th district – all the water surface area in the state. Greetings, Valued Constituents and Miscellaneous Voters, My apologies for this message directed at a mass audience on what … Continue reading →

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Pratfalls, Punchlines, and Pacts

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

Today’s guest post comes from Clyde. I recently stumbled across a little-known Thurber cartoon. I haven’t seen it almost 50 years. The cartoon shows a distinctly Thurberian man wearing a bowlerhat and a startled look as he half reclines on … Continue reading →

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Lost In Space

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

It’s a shame that we lost Neil Armstrong over the weekend, but I’m grateful that he was the one chosen to be the first to set foot on the moon. Imagine if, instead of the quiet, private Armstrong, a shameless … Continue reading →

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What’s the Harm in Monikers?

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

Names are in the news again. Holmes You really can’t fault the organizers of the campaign to banish the uttering of mass-murder suspect James Holmes’ name. If it turns out that he is, in fact, guilty, they want to keep … Continue reading →

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