Archives for 2015

Divine Guidance It's not that I don't try.  I do.  It's just that humans are so thick.  They just don't get it, where "it" is any blindingly obvious message.  Maybe I should just bang 'em upside the head with a two-by-four before trotting out my best instructional materials.  You know, get their attention.  I'll give you an example.
How to Keep a Scorpion from Stinging  "Unconscionable!" fumed Rey.  "They must be stopped!"
Jowly Annie and the Sheep A hungry wolf pack once came upon a herd of sheep.  The sheep seemed an easy mark, and the wolves duly set upon them, chomping and chowing down at will. Until an itinerant dog happened along and drove the wolves away.
Math Problem Train A leaves Capital A at 1:37 a.m., traveling at 92 miles an hour. Train B leaves Capital B at 2:15 a.m. on the same day (let's make it easy), traveling at 120.7 kilometers an hour (but not that easy).  Train A and Train B are on course to collide head-on, destroying both trains and killing all the passengers on board.
Of Cats, Pigs, and Pokes Puglio purported to be a purveyor of pork, although he had never owned a pig, or even seen one up close.  What he did have was a foul-tempered, evil-smelling, one-eyed, shred-eared, cantankerous old villain of a tom cat.  Called Old Tom, of course.