Saturday, October 10, 2009

The Saturday Edition


While the internet is fascinating, combing it for something to pass along is certainly time consuming. I have no link to recommend this week.
--- Well, hey! I did get a good chuckle out of this one:


Mount Dora got some badly needed rain today, and the drooping plants perked right up. The temperature continues to be warm, but not hot like it was.


Quotable and the Not-so-quotable Quotes

"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." ~ Doug Larson
--- Well, either one will work for me.

The more you forget, the more life becomes filled with surprises. ~RR
The more you forget, the easier life becomes; tell the same jokes, quote the same quotations....


The Poet's Corner


The Bear Went Over to China


There are lands so far away
That they have night when we have day,
And they have day when we have night
So they must live a loathsome plight.

The bear went over to China,
The bear went over to China,
The bear went over to China,
To see what he could see.

The people there have an awful fright
To do their shopping in the night,
Perform their work without sight,
And have to sleep in broad daylight

The other side of the world,
The other side of the world,
The other side of the world,
Was all that he could see.



I had totally forgotten that I had written this by the time I left for Vietnam. Nor did I think about it when I was discharged from the Marines and took the night shift at my first real job on return to the "real world".

"The Bear Went Over the Mountain" was a childhood favorite. Disillusioned that the other side of the mountain was no different than the one he just left, the song ends abruptly. No one talked of culture shock or reentry shock in those days, but nearly everyone understood that things were certainly different on the other side of the world. Even the bear that went over the mountain would have noticed that.

HOW TO HIT AT IT IS YET OUR UFO COMA NONE AND DO NOT KEEP UNTO FOR ON TRUE CLUE LED TOO MANY TO GET FACTS OF EMU EMBRALS NEEDS
Have you found the 32 letter, seven word sentence yet?
CLUE will be given tomorrow evening.

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