There’s nothing wrong with a good pun. The reason puns are thought of as lowly, or cheap, is because truly good puns are very difficult and very rare. They are not a pointless scrambling of words and letters, and they should not be so obvious–or so reaching—as to elicit nothing but groans and rolling eyes. In fact, puns are so difficult, an entire sub-genre of humor has grown up around them: jokes about how bad puns are. (See Pearls before Swine.) I’ve done maybe two or three good puns in my entire career. I count the above as one of them.
Clear as Mud
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281 responses to “Clear as Mud”
^°^°^°^°^amazed at what does not get checked. Then the airlines put great weapons making material in the seat pocket located in front of each passenger.
OF dye NOW-1738 CST. Grungy day, drops on webcam window. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
MDNR eagle cam: older nestling w/b flying soon, now at hop and lift stage. emb
http://www.webcams.dnr.state.mn.us/eagle/
emb: It appears that there are two birds sitting side-by-side.
I rarely fly, but I WAS told at the gate that I couldn’t bring my knitting needles into Joe Louis Arena during a college hockey tournement.
A rolled-up magazine can make a field-expedient defensive weapon (increases your reach to ward off an attacker and/or to poke attacker in nose). Who knew?
Although not about weapons or noses, Hognose on Weaponsman.com writes of a personal encounter with a subject which has been touched upon here…the current state of literacy among teens and young adults. (Opinions are his and not necessarily the same as mine, but the facts are thought-provoking.)
http://weaponsman.com/?p=22275
Debbe here is a good place to vent, people actually care. I would not want your current stress for anything, you seem to handle it well. I can and will pray for you though.
Via the last report I heard, two are dead and five missing after a severe thunderstorm crossed Mobile Bay about 4 PM Saturday, capsizing several sailboats. Some of them were part of a Dauphin Island regatta, and others were not.
I keep thinking that Jackie might have been in the middle of that if she had her sail boats yet. Which she may by now.
Willing to say that a 100% anus meat burger, would leave your breath needing a mint.
I shudder to think how many here have just read sand’s comment without having first read Hognose’s post on the link I posted above. 🙂
If not…
http://weaponsman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/misspelling-300×203.jpg
Used to illustrate, shall we say, failures to communicate correctly.
Gee! That could be gross. Spell check doesn’t give one correct word choice.
Of course, the sign was probably printed by an anti corporate farm, anti meat, vegan.
Reminds me of one of Jimmy’s older cartoons, in which Janis has asked Arlo to pick up hot dogs at the store. As he walks out the door, she tells him to be sure to buy the beef ones. “Pig lips, cow lips; what’s the difference?” he asks himself.
Come to think of it, Arlo may have overlooked one of the ingredients.
David, spell-check is capable of living up a cream without a puddle, while never giving you a flue of beheading. The previous sentence passed spell-check.
Hi Ghost et al, Jackie gets her first sailboat in July and will spend a month in Port Townsend, WA with friends before probably getting second one. I’ll be going on for a couple weeks in the Great Lakes and cruise Mackinac Straits and North Channel in my micro-cruiser, then south and down to Oklahoma for a couple weeks. I have a new column coming out after first of May. Lots of new exciting things in my life, all good.
Going in a few weeks up to Desolation Sound north of B.C. and cruise for a couple weeks in May, look at waterfalls and hike, swim. Plan is to later take the Dana 24 up to Alaska via the inland passages but lots more interesting life before then, that’s a later trip.
Yes, I am following this tragedy since early this morning. I am not going to sail the Florida 120 this year because no boats, so I went for Desolation Sound instead. Good trade. Will still be getting Bottoms Up as well but my friend’s behind schedule with her. So that’s three new boats in addition to the fleet in storage here or still unfinished. Not bad for a senior citizen!
New life and new eating going phenomenally well. Got hired for new job as a national sales rep but not announcing that one yet until July probably. In addition to signing on to help with the Scamp classes and sailing academy. Not ready to retire yet.Next column is about self rescue and preparation, all applicable to life and sailing and avoiding tragedy.
Will try and report once a month or so at most. y’all need some happiness.
Love, Jackie Monies
ghost, I had not heard about that, but I will check the Mobile tv news tonight. Debbe, I feel your pain and gotta vent too so here goes. I previously talked about my step granddaughter and her drug and legal problems. Nothing has changed except she now has a romantic relationship with one of her drug buddies. I told my wife that I didn’t want her in my home for the forseeable future, for obvious reasons. I didn’t really make it clear before, but her best friend is pending trial for killing her father. This is the kind of people that I’m talking about. I hoped that my wife’s daughter would at least understand our feelings without having to spell it out, but she was here earlier and demanded to know whether we would let her daughter in if she showed up. We had to tell her no and tried to explain why. She wouldn’t listen and said that she was done with us and walked out. Are we supposed to think that she may show up because she misses us and really wants to see us? Really? REALLY?
Yay! We heard from Jackie!
Thanx for that link, Mark. I’ve passed it on to a friend of mine who’s very, very skeptical about AGW and enough understanding of statistics (He has a Master’s in Statistical Inference.) to understand what’s going on. If it comes up on his blog, I’ll post a link here.
“MDNR eagle cam: older nestling w/b flying soon, now at hop and lift stage. emb
http://www.webcams.dnr.state.mn.us/eagle/ ”
“Boise Ed on 26 Apr 2015 at 5:58 pm # . emb: It appears that there are two birds sitting side-by-side.”
I presume it was the older of the two that have been in that nest since I first visited it over a month back. It is the larger, probably close to if not heavier than an adult male. Typically, flying young weigh more than adults. I expect the practice hop-lift routine is tiring, so they rest a lot.
Peace, emb
Oh goody, goody! Jackie has written in to tell us her latest news! It sounds terrific. So glad to know you are feeling good, Jackie, have lots of plans and projects; eating well and getting healthy. I bet you are having a really good time! Let us know what’s happening whenever you have time. Sending love … Charlotte
Thank you to everyone for your positive thoughts and well-wishes. I knew two managers ago at least one employee was a thief. Neither knew enough about the job to catch him. I did. One more problem solved.
Hope everyone has had a good weekend. Finally stopped raining and warmed up a bit here.
Debbe – Still could not do your job. Kudos to you.
Good for you, Mindy!
When I was working in finance/accounting, I caught three incidents of malfeance. One was personally difficult for I considered the person as a friend. But… One cannot condone dishonesty. After thorough research, I could document almost $100,000. Very sad…
GR, I was listening to a radio report on the avian flu and the ag reporter mentioned that insurance doesn’t cover foreign illnesses.
Jackie, glad to hear from you. Have a great time, and congratulations on your new career, independent sailswoman!
Ghost, we also had a drowning of a kayaker and death of one of the rescue workers trying to find him. The kayakers were in a creek swollen with recent heavy rains near an old industrial dam when the kayak tipped and this one person was swept away. While attempting to locate him, the rescue boats went over this “low head dam” and one woman was stripped of her life vest by the current. She died later of her injuries. This happened in Gadsden, AL about 75 miles northeast of where I am.
The video showing the conditions explains how dangerous this area was. http://www.statter911.com/2015/04/26/video-alabama-rescue-squad-member-killed-after-rescue-boats-flip-at-dam-during-river-search/