I heard a radio commercial the other day that proclaimed “Ford F1 50 truck with all the bells and whistles was offered at $15,000 off the MSRP!” Wow! That’s a hellava discount! Could it be real? At that price, the trucks...
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I tip my hat to my good friend. Without his help this blog would not have ever been started. It took a young mind to encourage and motivate the “older and seasoned brain” of this 86 year old fountain of musings. Thank...
Let’s do a musical leap frog from the aforementioned gentlemen in the title of this treatise to Cole Porter and George Gershwin. It’s only a short hop from Rogers and Hammerstein to Simon and Garfunkel, until we reach...
Observation: a family of four sits down at a restaurant for an evening meal. Before the ice water comes, all the diners have whipped out their cell phones or their tablets. An exchange of words is required in placing the...
Such a lovely word; it just rolls off the tongue. It sounds Spanish or Italian. Imagine walking into Gino’s restaurant and telling the waiter, “I’ll have the innuendo on angel hair with two meatballs.” Interesting...
Hyperbole is the words and phrases used in exaggeration, and not meant to be taken literally or seriously. Or are they? Visual hyperbole is especially rampant in TV commercials for new automobiles; these cars can appear to fly...
When the English poet John Donne opined that “no man is an island”, he obviously had not seen the future. A future filled with a myriad of electronic devices designed to keep us connected, while at the same time creating a...
It’s been established that cavemen drew on the walls of their domiciles. The subject of these etchings would be a major mastodon kill; using spears and slingshots, to establish bragging rights, about who brought home the...
Al Gore was right! Computers are the answer! After meeting with my Mensa group, I am pleased to reveal the future of higher education, starting in 2020. COMPUTERS HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS! ; from the sum of 2+2, apple pie squared...
Theodore’s thesis on thematic theater, (you see where this is going, right?) was received by the Theatergoers Theatrical Society with thunderous applause. The New York Thimes (did I do that?) thanked their loyal readers for...