no more need be said.
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“cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives.”
Jul9
Category Archives: humor
Jul6
strive.
morning yoga at the farmers’ market.
what I passed as I drove by
on my way to get bagels.
it’s all about balance.
some days it’s yoga and organic veggies
in the morning light.
other days it’s drinking a latte
and eating a chocolate chip bagel
with whipped cream cheese
while wearing the yoga pants you woke up in.
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“extremes are easy. strive for balance.”
-colin wright
Jun15
shark!!!
not sure how it all went down
but there was just half of a shark
left behind at a local pizza joint
there must have been one battle royale
and I wonder what happened to the other guy.
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“we should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.”
-peter benchley, author – jaws
Feb10
kakimi.
late night friends chatting about the current state of things.
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“kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?”
this translates roughly to:
“how the hell did these people win the cold war?”
― dave barry, big trouble
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image credit: kellydbrown
Feb7
only drama.
and the rest should stay back?
sign found by the parent drop-off circle
at my school in the morning.
from a class the night before
but it works in the morning too.
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“you cannot have the drama without comedy.”
-tommy wiseau
Dec30
being yourself.
after visiting grandma’s house with no worry that you’ll catch a cold.
“fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable.
style is more about being yourself.”
-oscar de la renta
after visiting grandma’s house and ?
i truly admire their spirit and they look so happy.
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image credits: crafty momma.com (dogs), google images (humans)
Dec13
your guest’s is as good as mine.
that moment
at the faculty party
when you get ready to leave
and go to pick up your coat
only to realize
that everyone has
a long, dark, down, winter coat
so you make a best guess choice.
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“confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
-henry miller
Nov18
around again.
if you have eaten the above, you are my contemporary.
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here i go, around again
another trip around the sun
happy to say i’m still here.
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google images
Oct23
silly.
Spijkenisse near Rotterdam has replaced the usual crossing sign by the town hall with one of a man with a bowler hat and briefcase flinging his leg high in the air, in emulation of John Cleese’s performance from the ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ sketch.
Aloys Bijl, a local fan of the show, saw a similar sign put up by a prankster in Sweden, and asked Spijkenisse council to make an official version. “Cleese parodied a man from the ministry, and sometimes strange things do happen in town halls.”
Alderman Jan Willem Mijnans liked the idea, and agreed to preside at the not-very-formal opening of the rebranded crossing.
“It’s nice to see people crossing the street with a smile on their face, and we hope lots of people will do so,” he told the expectant crowds, before trying out his own silly walk.
The crossing is one of the busiest in town, but Mr Mijnans assured the public that, no matter how silly their progress, “traffic rules still apply, and cars have to stop as normal”.He added that the sign will revert to the original if it proves to be more of a distraction than an aid to road safety.
The people of Spijkenisse have taken to the idea with great enthusiasm, and filled social media with clips of pedestrians crossing with a variety of outlandish gaits.
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‘mix a little foolishness with your serious plans.
it is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ‘
-horace
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credits: abc news, news from elsewhere, martin morgan, nos public television
Sep16
where hobbies, hijinks, and capers go bad = my childhood #6
(not my actual sale, this one is 70 miles long, but you get the feel of it)
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there was that time
when i decided the best way to earn some quick cash
was to have a yard sale.
so i dragged our lemonade stand table out into the front yard
threw a plastic tablecloth over it
made a sign
covered it with stuff to sell
opened for business
let the cash flow begin!
a couple of friends and their sibs
stopped by on bikes
to check it out
i quickly made 57 cents
things were humming along at a nice pace
the venture was looking promising
i thought i’d do this each weekend
maybe hire an assistant
deciding what i’d do with all the cash
until
my sister came marching out of the house
to see what was going on
realized that i was selling her stuff
my mom soon followed
and that business closed pretty quickly.
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“three dollars and it only transports matter?!”
(at professor frink’s yard sale – homer simpson)
fictional character from the animated tv series created by matt groening, the simpsons
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image credit: cbc.ca
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