I got ’em all in three minutes, forty seconds. I remember a similar running joke on an episode of Friends, when Joey was proud because he was able to name fifty-six states, and later made fun of Ross, who’d been stumped at forty-six, as “Mr. I forgot ten states”. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
This woman loves her husband: Twenty-two years ago today, Mr. M-mv gave me an engagement ring. I was surprised about how and when he proposed, yes, but the idea of marriage? No surprises there. He had already told me that we would be getting married. He announced this about two weeks after our first date. Silly boy. So does this woman: In our early days together his friends and family were all shaking their heads, figuring my man was going through some sort of middle age crazy to hook up with “that head-in-the clouds hippie girl” and my pals wereDown the rabbit hole….
I hate it when people point out that “Just because that’s the way we’ve always done it is no reason to keep doing it that way.” Why do I hate this? Well, it’s always true to note this, of course; it really is the case that tradition isn’t in itself a good reason to keep doing something. What irritates me is that this bit of wisdom is, in my experience, usually advanced in support of making a change, in and of itself, as though change is a priori good. The above mantra is often tossed out there as a meansDown the rabbit hole….
A press item, noted today: BOSTON — Still smarting from their recent partial shutdown of the city, which was perceived nationwide as a staggering overreaction to what was later uncovered as a viral marketing ploy, the Boston Police Department is now facing questions about its conduct in investigating another bomb scare last month. “There was clearly intent to harm civilians,” said Detective Duncan Shaun O’Reillyhughe the Third. “The surveillance tape clearly shows the suspect wiring a piano to explode with ten sticks of Grade A dynamite from the ‘ACME’ corporation.” The scheme, as explained by Detective O’Reillyhughe, was for theDown the rabbit hole….