Today’s word: brimborion – something which is useless or nonsensical
Just discovered that crypt and cryptography have the same etymology. (Kryptos = hidden)
But it’s graves that are hidden, crypts are more likely to be above ground.
The New York phone book listed 22 Hitlers before WWII. After WWII it listed none. We got ‘em all.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. He had a motive!
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Today’s word: hawsehole – the hole in a ship thru which the anchor is lowered. (I take no responsibility for what your mind does with this)
The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof.
Can you become addicted to therapy? And if so, what’s the cure?
Today’s word: philosophunculist – one who pretends to know more than they do to impress others.
My mother is a moonshiner, but I love her still.
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Today’s Word: Pickthank - one who strives to put another under obligation.
We’ve strip-mined the land, fouled the air and poisoned the oceans. When we’re through, the meek can have it.
More than 2500 left-handed people are killed every year by products made for right-handed people. Seems like a low tally to me.
Printer ink is only one third the price of saffron. What a bargain! (saffron @ $7000 per kg, printer ink @ $8000 per gallon)
Eat more burgers for the sake of personal security – fat people are harder to kidnap.
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In Korea, children are born at the age of one. They have a different way of designating age over there.
Koreans are often surprised to discover that they get younger by emigrating – which is something we can’t do.
Keep the dream alive: Just hit the snooze button.
In Latin the word for witness and the word for testicle are the same (testis).
Today’s word: carfax – not a fax machine in an automobile, but a place where 4 or more roads meet.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
