№ 797. From our Barangay to yours, Happy Holidays!

Physical Therapy Session

 

№ 765. Dilbert's Business Intelligence

 

№ 736. Never-Mind Friday

 

Mindfulness

№ 735. Circle of Life

 

№ 657. Marital Vows

Conde Nast

 

WIFE writes: 

My husband heard on the radio that banana peels were edible. Later, I was eating a soup he prepared when he revealed he had put banana peel in it. Please tell my husband to stop this. (P.S.: Since I first wrote you, he put pumpkin in my oatmeal, sprinkling it with cinnamon so I wouldn’t notice.) 

 

ADVICE: 

One might be tempted to dismiss your husband’s pumpkin-spicing your oatmeal as a seasonal joke. But banana-peel soup is a gag in every sense: both prankish and revolting. You deserve to eat food in your own home without fear that it has been laced with compost. And while that oatmeal sounds as if it could actually be pretty good, sneaky is never delicious. Here’s a hint for newly engaged couples: Never dose your partner’s meals with anything, no matter what the radio tells you to do. This should be part of your vows, honestly.

№ 435. God of the Gaps

Someone asked the Master if he believed in luck.

"Certainly," he replied with a twinkle in his eye.

"How else can one explain the success of people one does not like?"

--- from Awakening, Conversations with the Master, by Anthony de Mello

№ 385. How to Not Let ISIS Win

Weaponize humor and sacrilege.



Ridicule and laugh at them.

№ 269. 16th Century App

Alice, what are you doing? Taking an Instagram shot before running off to the Mad Hatter's merienda?

Too Much Tech

№ 263. Celibate

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church, by hand.



He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.

So, the new monk goes to the Old Abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

№ 172. Me, My Selfie and I

Who are these millenials hiding inside Gen X suits? 

The world is in capable hands, no? These kids will inherit the earth.

They like selfies, traveling and social networks. Their lives are dipped deep in tech and indulgent ecology. Yes, they swim in it like prehistoric life in the primordial soup.

Are these accurate and fair descriptions? Does it matter?

1. Self-centered,
2. tech driven and savvy,
3. unafraid to explore the physical and virtual realities and the spaces in between,
4. sexually fluid and less inhibited,
5. very visual or aural or make that sensual.

№ 162. Sunday's Best

Seriously, this is funny. LOL.

№ 147. Time

Time bends
as hard as the Sacraments
as soft as the Gospels.

Go forth,
and multiply,
he says.

Ted on New Yorker Cartoons

 

№ 128. I Before E....

...Except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor.

Or....

...My neighbours run a foreign freight train company, and last week all of their stock was seized by this weird customs officer. He was a feisty guy! I reckon he was taking those weight gain protein drinks... That or he just injected it into his veins. Well, we shared a Budweiser each, and he told me that mnemonic devices devised to help students remember how to spell certain words in the English language can be misleading.

But I was too busy looking in my Kaleidoscope to pay attention.

(from George Takei's Page)

№ 101. "Really, can these puns go any Führer?"*

"Somebody said, grammar is already a pain so why should you be so, too?" (Source unknown)

"Well, it's good to be right and it's fun to be a schmuck about it, too." (Source withheld upon request for fear of cyber bullies)

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"Q. I answer our company’s main phone line, and frequently get calls for myself. Today when someone asked for me saying, “Is Charlotte available?” I responded, “This is she.” The caller promptly corrected me, informing me that I should have said, “This is her.” Which is correct?

A. Your response was the correct one. “This is she” is grammatically correct. The verb “to be” acts as a linking verb, equating subject and object. So this is she and she is this; “she” and “this” are one and the same, interchangeable, and to be truly interchangeable they must both play the same grammatical role—that of the subject.

However, this rule gets broken all the time. I suspect that people expect an object (as is correct for constructions such as “you slay me” or “what’s wrong with me?” or “go talk to her”) so they choose an object, unaware of the nature of a linking verb. Now both forms have come to be accepted if not acceptable; it’s a matter of how formal you want to be. If you’re a 1950s-style Hollywood garage mechanic who grudgingly picks up the phone, with greasy hands, when nobody’s “manning” it, the conversation might go like this:

Hullo?
Hey, Charlie?
That’s me, Mac. Whaddya want?

You can try to avoid the issue by using your own name, rather than a pronoun: “this is Charlotte” is never wrong.

The who/whom question is similar. Though “whom” is correct when the objective form is called for, it can sound put on; it seems to draw attention to its own correctness. In any case, if we were all as proper as you are, proper grammar wouldn’t sound wrong to anyone." (Chicago Manual of Style)

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Bento Box:

*The title is lifted from Frazel's YouTube comment.

№ 74. Comedy Has Color

I wish I could've said or even thought a bit of this piece. Comedy does refract into a continent of colors.

Unforgivably wise!

I like this obnoxious Brit.

"I’m not one of those people who think that comedy is your conscience taking a day off. My conscience never takes a day off and I can justify everything I do. There’s no line to be drawn in comedy in the sense that there are things you should never joke about. There’s nothing that you should never joke about, but it depends what that joke is. Comedy comes from a good or a bad place. The subject of a joke isn’t necessarily the target of the joke. You can make jokes about race without any race being the butt of the joke. Racism itself can be the butt, for example. When dealing with a so-called taboo subject, the angst and discomfort of the audience is what’s under the microscope. Our own preconceptions and prejudices are often what are being challenged. I don’t like racist jokes. Not because they are offensive. I don’t like them because they’re not funny. And they’re not funny because they’re not true. They are almost always based on a falsehood somewhere along the way, which ruins the gag for me. Comedy is an intellectual pursuit. Not a platform." (The Difference Between American & British Humour)

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