Stuff Happens in the World of Fiction

In a Shoe? Boot, I Say!

Mother Goose Musings

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood
in quantities sufficient to fuel the feared blaze

that would motivate the trapped fly and flea

to vacate that proverbial place of the flawed flue,

much as the dog in a famed factor-analysis problem

learned wit enough to solve the multi-causal
problem posed by asking for one effect from
a multitude of causes, knowing that cause
becomes effect as burning stick moves a dog.

Likes and Dislikes of the English Spelling System

"Pro Verb"

"A proverb only looks pro verb."

Estranged Sayings Nr. 22

Fred Napping

"A nap-plea day keeps the doc tora way."

The word tora (虎) means "tiger" in Japanese, but in this case [of Pearl Harbor, it] is an abbreviated radio codeword, an acronym for totsugeki raigeki (突撃雷撃), literally meaning "lightning attack," indicating . . . that the objective of complete surprise had been achieved. (See Keith Higa, Quora)

But what does "keeps the doc tiger way" mean? Perhaps it means to keep the doc on the way toward lightning attacks . . . like Mr. Flintstone in his hammock.

Vampire in my dream?

The Ghostly Host

Watching over us, indeed!

Rather, surveilling us!

I was thrashing about in a dream the other night, kicking out at an evil creature threatening me and my family, a ghost of some sort, a spectral vampire - and if I'm not mistaken, specifically, The Big Hominid, spiritual alter ego of Kevin Kim!

My wife shook me awake and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Well," I said, and I began to laugh, "I was fighting 'The Ghost of Kevin Kim.'"

My wife must have stared at me in the darkness, but she said nothing, and I fell back asleep, probably to again take on my heroic role as a good, glorious knight in quest of monsters to slay . . .

Let's have some nonsense!

Non-Sense

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Cold hands, warm heart, non-sense! - Cold hands do NOT imply a warm heart!

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy . . .

Weisheit

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. . . and wise? The proverbial health and wealth part, maybe, but as to wisdom - or what the Germans (interestingly enough) call "Vice-Height" - I have my doubts, for I have learned much from my failures and misfortunes, usually involving wisdom gained dear from direct experience, so I tinker at being a thinker