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The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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** TPO **
A personal blog with diverse topicality and multiple interests!


On the menu ... politics, music, poetry, and other good stuff.
There is humor, but there is blunt seriousness here as well!


Parfois, on parle français ici aussi. Je suis un francophile .... Bienvenue à tous!

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

"Posterior Breezes" - by WBG

 
                                                                
                                                                
 "Posterior Breezes!"
by
Wisconsin Boonies Grandma*
 
"I went to the store to purchase a birthday card for my sister. 

"I couldn't decide whether to pick a card to remind her of her OTD status or something sentimental. As I approached the card section, I decided to go around the end to the Comic section. 

 
"I stopped when I heard a really loud rumbling noise coming from around the corner. I realized it was a long posterior wind, giving someone a big degree of comfort. I hesitated just a second and stepped around the corner to see a little old lady innocently perusing the cards. 

 
"The second card I picked up contained this touching verse: 'Somebody [expelled a posterior breeze] in the card shop and I could only hold my breath long enough to grab this one: HAPPY BIRTHDAY. And many more!' 

 
"I grabbed the envelope and the card and dashed back around the corner, in fear of breaking out in uncontrollable laughter." 
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*Source: Pioneer Press Bulletin Board 

 


Saturday, May 12, 2012

I Do, I Will, I Have - by Ogden Nash


Ogden Nash

I Do, I Will, I Have
by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

How wise I am to have instructed the butler
to instruct the first footman to instruct the second
footman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;
I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.

Just as I know that there are two Hagens, Walter and Copen,
I know that marriage is a legal and religious alliance entered
into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a
woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Moreover, just as I am unsure of the difference between
flora and fauna and flotsam and jetsam,
I am quite sure that marriage is the alliance of two people
one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other
never forgetsam,
And he refuses to believe there is a leak in the water pipe or
the gas pipe and she is convinced she is about to asphyxiate
or drown,
And she says Quick get up and get my hairbrushes off the
windowsill, it's raining in, and he replies Oh they're all right,
it's only raining straight down.

That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
the immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and
combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
particularly if he has income and she is pattable.