TMI

This is a good example of Too Much Information - leading to ineffective advertising. But I think that they may be onto something! Each municipality should pass an ordinance requiring that political signage be placed in a single location, rather than cluttering up the entire landscape.

Vote here if you agree:

chuckthepoliticiansout.com

Vote here if you disagree:

iamanidiot.org

(These are not real links to anything)

Ode to the Lost Brother

Or Slippin’ Away

The oldest by date
Nary a spate
Between the siblings, except
When discussing those adept
At the art of leisure
I’ll sail away, says he the oldest
When in reality they slip, and sip
Mostly
Southerly warm
A literal and littoral swarm
All mast
The message in the bottle reads
Back in a year
Or more
When will we hear? Oh, dear
Brother of mine
It’s a fine
Endeavour

Orca in San Carlos - high pucker factor

I was looking around a San Carlos, Sonora forum web site that I check on periodically and found a post with photographs that I thought was amazing. Here is the post without embellishment:

"On our way out today we cuaght up with a big male killer whale, it was getting rwlly close to our prop and was aparently just playing with our wake, then he moved over to Catch-22's wake and I was able to get a few pictures from our boat...We heard on the radio of other boats finding a big pod of orcas close to San Pedro island.Awesom experience again.

We caught 3 dorado, released 2 of them that were small and kept a 15 pounder, hooked and lost a marlin.Fernando
Last edited on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 06:40 pm by PQ Almada"

Holy cow, man, get a grip!

The episode in Middletown, Ohio involving the arrest of an intoxicated woman in a cow suit threatens to take on a life of its own, with the potential to outlive even the legend of Mrs Oleary's cow of Chicago fame.

Mr. Biesbolfan's original blog query regarding the authenticity of the mug shot may have turned into a real barn burner of its own. Completely udder-estimating the moovment afoot (or "ahoof) by the Middleton P.D. to ban cow suits entirely, Mr. Biesbolfan has left all reason in the pasture and pursued wordplay in the extreme. His admonition to "Don't have a cow man!", and "we're mooving on", may have soured the entire bucket of milk.

So I ask you to be udderstanding while we try to heard the tail end of this post toward a cud-clusion, without guilt about the diversion from more serious matters. Hay! I just remembered, in my research I found the perfect gift for Cubs biesbol fans worldwide............

(IF THIS SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE ON THE OUTSIDE OF AN INSIDE JOKE YOU ARE CORRECT. UNLESS YOU SUBSCRIBE TO must heart dogs AND READ ITS COMMENTS YOU WILL NOT HAVE A CLUE!)

Viral Time Warp

These are images of a cold virus and right now I am certain that they are in every possible part of my body. My relationship with our living room couch has expanded exponentially for each of the last 6 days I have spent prone on it slipping in and out of a semi-coherent state. I just wanted to look them up and see how they would appear if my Superman vision ever kicks in.

Julie and I are supposed to leave for Bend tomorrow so that we may attend a Friday night dinner and silent auction benefit for the St. Joseph Hospital Cancer Center. Right now that is not at the top of my list of things to do, but since I have had this bug for about six days it should have run its course by the time we need to leave. It is probably a good sign that I have any interest whatsoever in posting here even though I will probably slip off into my daily coma soon.

This past week has been fairly humorless except for the few fun things I have found on TV or on fellow blogger's sites - such as Aroma Therapy Candles by Mr. Biesbolfan. As my outlook improves I am certain that humor will slide back into its rightful place among the cobwebs currently occupying much of my cranial space.

Bullwinkle on E-mail

Martin: Don't you guys know about faxes?

Lewis: Yeah, don't you know about E-mail?

Bullwinkle: Sure. A fax is a little red critter that hunts geese and chickens. Half of them are males, and the other half are "E-males".

Martin: No, it's a way of transmitting computer-generated information across great distances in the blink of an eye!

Bullwinkle: Well I was close.

(These last few blog posts got me thinking about quotes in general, so I found one that I thought would be of interest)

Humpty Dumpty Rule

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

Lewis Carroll

It has been subtly pointed out that I keep forgetting to attribute quotes and other material properly, or worse yet misquoting entirely! This is not entirely true. I prefer to allow myself the freedom to run amok with words, wildly forging ahead and thinking about matters of scholarly value later. I am no scholar.

This is what should be called the Humpty Dumpty Rule, if you place any value in the "teachings" of Lewis Carroll. Take that, academia!