21 Jan 12 A Wife’s Lament
He didn’t like the casserole
And he didn’t like my cake,
He said my biscuits were too hard
Not like his mother used to make.
I didn’t perk the coffee right
He didn’t like the stew,
I didn’t mend his socks
The way his mother used to do.
I pondered for an answer
I was looking for a clue.
So I turned around and smacked him one
Like his mother used to do.
07 Apr 11 Tolio
A young couple left the church and arrived at the hotel where they were spending the first night of their honeymoon. They opened the champagne and began undressing.
When the bridegroom removed his socks, his new wife asked, ‘What’s wrong with your feet? Your toes look all mangled and weird.
‘I had tolio as a child,’ he answered.
‘You mean polio?’ she asked.
‘No, tolio. The disease only affected my toes.
When the groom took off his pants, his bride once again asked
‘What’s wrong with your knees? They’re all lumpy and deformed!
‘As a child, I also had kneasles,’ he explained.
‘You mean measles?’ she asked.
‘No, kneasles. It was a strange illness that only affected my knees.
The new bride had to be satisfied with this answer.
As the undressing continued, her husband at last removed his underwear.
‘Don’t tell me,’ she said.
‘Let me guess…
Smallcox?
Tags: bridegroom, champagne, first night, honeymoon, knees, measles, polio, socks, strange illness, toes, underwear, young couple
08 Dec 08 In The Year 2525 If Man Is Still Alive
Blogging has, for the majority of us, moved past the personal diary stage. You don’t really want to know what cereal I had for breakfast, when I showered, or the color of my socks do you? OK, you do – email me afterward then.
So Why blog?
I’ve heard this question many times.
I’ve heard a number of answers too. Some say that services such as Twitter or Friendfeed largely eliminate the need for blogging, as we can all interact in these services without setting up and maintaining a blog.
Now there are only so many minutes in a day (yes I know it’s 1440). I know I’ve been blogging less lately, as I’ve been spending more of my time in Friendfeed. Too much time, sometimes. However, it’s not wasted time, by and large, as there are many good links posted in there, and I learn new things all the time (as we all do).
Whoa! Hang on a minute…..
If there are links posted in there, that means they’re coming from a web site, and some of those links are blogs, right? Yes of course. Many links are to YouTube videos or mp3s at last.fm perhaps, yes, but there are many links I get to news sites, and blogs too.
My take on it is that if you wish to write longer articles, opinions, share news or a hobby, a blog is still the best place to do this. You can write what you want to, about what you like, and then share it on the social media networks with those you think might be interested in reading your diatribe.
Of course, if you’ve nothing to say, then blogging is perhaps not for you, but there’s few people that truly have nothing to comment on at all.
I’m not much of a science fiction fan, but one thing that does fascinate me, and it’s this. If we look back 500 years or so, communication was still basic, and storage of communications even more so. Only the rich could read, and write, afford to buy books, and so much history is based around the elite or ruling classes.
However, if we were in 2525 looking back to now, what a rich library we would already have to look through to see how the common person lived an every day life. How interesting it will be to see what we all got up to, and how we lived back here and now.
On second thoughts then, perhaps I should blog about my breakfast cereal and my socks after all. Even if you’re not interested in the minutiae of my life my great-great-great-great grandchildren might well be.
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