*image by Ben Harubin

 

One man's motto:
"Pissed? You bet I'm pissed!"

In response to many comments and accusations, one man finally said, "Pissed?
Pissed? Yeah, I'm pissed. And you wanna know why? Huh? You wanna know why?
Well, I'll tell you why -- I don't know why. There -- happy now?"

(May I suggest to you that this little episode represents more than just the parochial
situation of one man.)

Children should confine the frightening stories they tell adults
to those concerning creatures that will come out from under your bed at night
and suck out all your brains.
Just a bit of compassion and common sense goes a long way in people rearin'.
(Life paid me to say that, and it was with no recompense that I substituted
the word "people" where the original script said "idiot.")

Yes sir, I guess a little compassion and common sense can count for something –
just don't expect it to mean anything if you stay in your room with your mind locked.

And speaking of locks:
Did you hear the one about the philosopher, the proctologist, and the mining engineer
who wanted to break the genetic code?
"Yes, yes, that probably too is all well and good, but I still await a reply to my earlier inquiry."
Mein Got! -- the munchkin lives!

One man allowed himself to receive pudding instructions from some tapioca;
(with the secret intent to eventually use same as an anti-pudding weapon
...guess who ended up with flour on their face?)

The trickiest aspect of figuring out what's going on with life
(if you think of "life" as being what the mind conceives it to be)
is that...is that...well, it's really too meaninglessly complex for me
to even bother trying toexplain.

(In case you haven't yet noticed, there are victory banners permanently hung
over all the entryways to the stadium where you and the mind compete,
noting its perpetual triumph.
Well, look at it this way: Even though only chumps will play a known losing game,
it's double chumps who'll refuse to realize that it is.)