*image by Ben Harubin

 

A Nonstandard Look At The Possible Training Of Domesticated Pets Who May Be Occupying
The Same Residence As You

If you keep calling a dog a cur, he'll growl at you, and as long as he growls at you,
you'll continue to think of him as a cur.

Yes, that was A Nonstandard Look At The Possible Training Of Domesticated
Pets, etc.

...(The original headline on this story concerned motorcycles, until it was
realized that the word "motor" herein was unnecessary.)

The simple with big muscles believe that weakness is the question and
strength the answer, while the simple with much thinking believe that
ignorance is the question and knowledge the answer. But there are a few
(always around) who see it as a matter of questions being the question,
answers are the answer, and yes, someone did bring salt-free catsup to the
picnic.

For a short while last Wednesday, one man had this picture of himself,
"I am in a washer -- in a dryer -- on a merry-go-round -- on an endless assembly line.
"I'm a busy little rascal, to what purpose I don't seem prepared to see."
(He, amongst others of his species, sometimes finds it helpful that the weekend
so closely follows midweek.)

A boy asked his father,
"Is there something in particular that each of us should be doing in life?"
"If you think there is," he replied.
"Then," asked the lad, "is there actually nothing in particular that any of
us should be doing in life?"
"Not if you don't think there is," he responded on cue.
Once upon a time there was a man who wanted to ask life this question.

Recent Discovery In The World Of Engineering As Reported By
Engineers On Another World

There are two ways to stop trains from running through a tunnel:
one is to stop the trains from running, the other is to close up the tunnel.

...('Tis good to access news from other planets concerning other creatures
who, by virtue of their diverse natures, are able to make such mortally
inconceivable discoveries.)

And now this item regarding Leisure Time -- Here And There:
(I hate to call them "parochial rubes," but) what can you say about the
intellectual vistas of people who spend their vacations visiting the places
where they already live?