I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
. . .
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
- Lyrics, The Living Years, Mike + the Mechanics
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
MY FATHER
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I try to limit the amount of personal items posted in Bytes lest it become the equivalent of a Facebook page but there is one item I would like to share.
I was perusing some photos of the past in Bored Panda when I came across an image that made me think it was of my late father when he was young. This is the image:
The caption with the photograph is:
In Amsterdam, Holland, In 1953, A Milkman Was Seen Peddling His Dairy Products, Providing Fresh Milk And Other Essentials To The Community
My reason in thinking it was my father is a similar photograph when he was young, also in Holland. Here are some photos of my father, also named Otto, with my comments . . .
A photo montage of my father (1923 – 1999) prepared by me years ago. When he was young, he worked as a delivery man using the same three wheeled cycle, known as a bakfiets in Dutch, see bottom left corner.
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Apparently these cycles are known as cargo bikes and are still in use today.
A bakfiets is a type of cargo bike that is popular in the Netherlands. The bakfiets means "box bike" and these bikes are ingrained in Dutch culture.
Some pics of various cargo bikes and other transporter cycles of the past . . .
'Brood' means 'bread'
The person above also resembles my father when he was young.
BYTES IS BACK
Dear Byters:
My apologies for the lack of Bytes foor the past week -- I have had both blog siite problems and home internet problems (appparently I need a new router, I am told).
Will try to post tonight.
My apologies for the lack of Bytes foor the past week -- I have had both blog siite problems and home internet problems (appparently I need a new router, I am told).
Will try to post tonight.
Otto
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
POETRY SPOT
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Sent to me by John P, thanks John . . .
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My Younger DaysBy Maya Angelou
When I was in my younger days,
I weighed a few pounds less,
I needn’t hold my tummy in
to wear a belted dress.
But now that I am older,
I’ve set my body free;
There’s the comfort of elastic
Where once my waist would be.
Inventor of those high-heeled shoes
My feet have not forgiven;
I have to wear a nine now,
But used to wear a seven.
And how about those pantyhose-
They’re sized by weight, you see,
So how come when I put them on
The crotch is at my knee?
I need to wear these glasses
As the print’s been getting smaller;
And it wasn’t very long ago
I know that I was taller.
Though my hair has turned to grey
and my skin no longer fits,
On the inside, I’m the same old me,
It’s the outside’s changed a bit.
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The version sent to me by John:
Monday, January 6, 2025
QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Hubris describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence and complacency, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.
AESOP’S FABLES
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Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him.
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The Tortoise and the Eagle
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The fable:
A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. "I will give you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?'
Alternative version:
A Tortoise, weary of his condition, by which he was confined to creep upon the ground, and ambitious to look about him with a larger prospect, proclaimed that if any bird would take him up into the air, and shew him the world, he would reward him with the discovery of an invaluable treasure, which he knew was hidden in a certain place of the earth. The Eagle accepted the offer, and having performed his undertaking, gentlv set the Tortoise again on the ground, and demanded the reward. The Tortoise was obliged to confess that he could not fulfil his promise, which he had made only with the view of having his fancy gratified. The Eagle, stung with resentment at being thus duped, grasped him again in his talons, and then soaring to a great height, let him fall, by which he was dashed to pieces.
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The moral:
If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
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Other morals:
Never put yourself in your enemy’s clutches.
Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.
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Alternative version in poem:
Jefferys Taylor
ONCE a tortoise complain’d (though ’twas not of much use),
That he scarce could see over the back of a goose;
That his legs were so short, and his pace was so slow,
Of the world and its wonders he nothing could know.
So at last he determined to alter his lot,
Or at least for a season to rise from that spot;
So he mention’d his thoughts to a bird that he knew,
Who agreed to oblige him and give him a view.
So this bird, and another, supported a stick,
Which was not very heavy, or clumsy, or thick;
This the tortoise enclosed in his mouth very tight,
While the birds soon ascended a wonderful height.
But an eagle who chanced the strange creature to see,
Exclaim’d with amazement, “Pray who can that be?”
“O, the king of the tortoises! do not you know him?”
Said they; “’tis our honour his kingdom to show him.”
Said the bird, “Ere I take that as true, I must pause;”
The tortoise impatient, then open’d his jaws
To confirm his new title, when straight he descended!
So his journey, and reign, and existence were ended!
So far had the tortoise to fall, they relate,
That he’d time while descending to muse on his fate,
“Ah!”thought he, “thus I pay for my foolish ambition,
Which would not be content with a humble condition;
Yet I might have hung safely, I cannot deny,
Had my mouth not been open’d to utter a lie.”
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Sunday, January 5, 2025
MORE BACKSTORIES OF FAMOUS SONGS
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‘Bilie Jean’ – Michael Jackson (1983)
Written and composed by Michael Jackson, off the Thriller album, the lyrics describe a woman, Billie Jean, who claims that the narrator is the father of her newborn son.
Jackson said that "Billie Jean" was based on groupies he and his brothers encountered while they performed as the Jackson 5:
"They would hang around backstage doors, and any band that would come to town they would have a relationship with, and I think I wrote this out of experience with my brothers when I was little. There were a lot of Billie Jeans out there. Every girl claimed that their son was related to one of my brothers."
According to Jackson's biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, "Billie Jean" was inspired by letters Jackson received in 1981 from a woman claiming he was the father of one of her twins. Jackson, who regularly received letters of this kind, had never met the woman and ignored those claims. However, she continued to send letters stating that she loved him and wanted to be with him, asking how he could ignore his own flesh and blood. The letters disturbed him so much that he began to suffer nightmares.
Eventually, Jackson received a parcel containing a photograph of the fan, a gun, and a letter instructing him to die at a particular time. The fan would do the same once she had killed "their" baby, so they could be together in the "next life". The Jacksons later discovered that the fan had been sent to a psychiatric hospital.
By the Way:
Jackson was so absorbed in the song, writing it in his head, that he did not notice that his car was on fire. Someone on a bike pointed it out to him.
Video:
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(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – Rolling Stones (1965)
On May 6, 1965, The Rolling Stones played to about 3,000 people at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida while on their first US tour. According to an article in the St. Petersburg Times, about 200 young fans got in an altercation with a line of police officers at the show, and The Stones made it through just four songs as chaos ensued. That night, Keith Richards woke up in his hotel room with the guitar riff and lyric "can't get no satisfaction" in his head. He recorded it on a portable tape deck, went back to sleep, and brought it to the studio that week. The tape contained his guitar riff followed by the sounds of him snoring.
Mick Jagger wrote all the lyrics except the line "can't get no satisfaction." The lyrics deal with what Jagger saw as the two sides of America: the real and phony. The song is about a man looking for authenticity but not being able to find it through the haze of marketing. Jagger experienced the vast commercialism of America in a big way on their tours and later learned to exploit it, as The Rolling Stones made truckloads of money through sponsorships and merchandising in the US.
By the Way:
In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive.
Video link:
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‘Sounds of Then’ – GANGajang (1985)
Written by GANGajang front man, Mark "Cal" Callaghan, who provides lead vocals and guitar, the song has been described as "a defining portrait of the nation."
Callaghan recalled that it started as a poem in his notebook, reflecting on the time that his family moved from England to Bundaberg in Queensland, a major culture shock for him:
"We lived half way between Bundaberg and the ocean, all around was bush scrub and cane fields. And walking up to the top of the street to catch the school bus, one morning you turn around and there's fire. It's one of those songs where if your goal was only to sell records, whatever it took to do it, then the song would have been called 'This is Australia'. But it's not about that. It's a brick veneer drama. My parents got divorced when they came to Australia, it was a horrible period of my life. And the song is actually about how smells and sounds and sensations can rekindle a memory – which is what music does so successfully for people:'I think I hear the sounds of then and people talkingScenes recalled by minute movementAnd songs they fall from the backing tape…'."
By the Way:
Formed in 1984, the group’s name GANGgajang is meant to replicate the sound of a guitar playing a loud chord.
Video link:
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‘Hallelujah’ – Leonard Cohen (1984)
Written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, the song achieved little initial success. It found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Which in turn inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley. The song achieved widespread popularity after Cale's version of it was featured in the 2001 film Shrek. "Hallelujah" experienced renewed interest following Cohen's death in November 2016 and re-appeared on international singles charts, including entering the American Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.
When at age 50 Cohen first recorded the song, he described it as "rather joyous", and said that it came from "a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way, but with enthusiasm, with emotion." He later said "there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there's only one thing to say, and it's hallelujah".
Journalist Larry Sloman, who knew Cohen well and interviewed him often, described the song as one part biblical, one part the woman that Cohen slept with last night, citing an unidentified critic saying that Cohen was most interested in "holiness and horniness".
Canadian singer k.d. lang said in an interview shortly after Cohen's death that she considered the song to be about "the struggle between having human desire and searching for spiritual wisdom. It's being caught between those two places."
By the Way:
Cohen wrote about 80 verses for the song, settling on six he
included. Some of the extra verses he would sometimes use when he performed the
song live.
Video link:
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POETRY SPOT
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Another poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox . . .
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919) was an American author and poet. Wilcox was also an advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism, died of cancer.
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The Winds of Fate
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
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From:
The poem compares the winds of fate to the winds of the sea, suggesting that our lives are not determined by external forces, but by our own choices. In the same way that a ship's sails determine its direction, it is our own decisions and actions that shape our destinies.
This idea is reminiscent of the themes of self-determination and individual responsibility found in other works by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, such as "Solitude" and "The Heart's Desire" (future posts). However, "The Winds of Fate" differs from these other poems in its focus on the external forces that may influence our choices, such as the "gales" of fate.
By acknowledging the existence of these forces, the poem suggests that while we cannot control our circumstances, we can still choose how we respond to them. This message of hope and empowerment is particularly relevant to the time period in which the poem was written, as it was a time of great social and economic change.
My comment:
It is equally applicable to our current age.
Friday, January 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
By the way:
The origins of this idiom can be traced back to the music industry of the 1960s. During this time, there was a surge in popularity for rock and roll music, which led to an influx of new artists trying to make it big. Many of these artists were able to achieve success with one hit song but struggled to maintain their momentum.
The term “one-hit wonder” was first coined by American journalist Steven Rosen in a 1966 article for Billboard magazine. In his article, Rosen referred to bands like The Knickerbockers and The Seeds as “one-shot phenomena,” which later evolved into the more commonly used
Since its inception, the term “one-hit wonder” has become deeply ingrained in popular culture. It is often used not only within the music industry but also in other areas such as film, television, and sports.
ONE HIT WONDERS
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A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to music performers with only one hit single that overshadows their other work.
- Wikipedia
The strange thing about One Hit Wonders is how brightly they shone with their one hit at the time and then fizzled out, largely dropping from view.
Here are some.
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(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight
Artist:
Cutting Crew
Year:
1986
Video link:
About:
"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" was the debut single by the English pop rock band Cutting Crew, released on 25 July 1986 as a single from their debut studio album, Broadcast.
The song was written by frontman Nick Van Eede,
According to Nick Van Eede, he wrote down a lot of song titles and ideas on a sheet of wallpaper, and one of the lines written there was "I just died in your arms tonight". The line came to Van Eede while he was having sex with his girlfriend; Van Eede said: "I actually remember saying that", and wrote it down. He woke up in the morning, wrote the song, and recorded a demo in three days.
He first added some chords to the line, singing it phonetically, before adding other lines from the wallpaper to construct a song. He wrote for three or four hours before realising what he was singing about. He said: "We got back together for one night after a year apart, and I guess there were some fireworks but all the time tinged with a feeling of, 'Should I really be doing this?' ”
When the song was released, the record label questioned the use of brackets for "I Just" in the title, but relented when it was pointed out such similar use in "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones.
First released in Britain, the song peaked at No. 4 on the UK charts. Upon its release in the United States, the previously-unknown band's debut single shot to No. 1 and stayed there for two weeks. The song spent three weeks at number one in Canada.
With success came pressure. Cracks began to surface when none of their follow-up singles met commercial expectations. A battle with management kept the band’s follow up album from coming out until 1989. It bombed, and by 1993 the group had disbanded.
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Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Artists:
Written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to the fictitious band ‘Steam’
Year:
1969
Video link:
About:
Studio musicians Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer and Paul Leka had worked together on various projects for a few years. In 1969, DeCarlo was recording songs with Leka producing when they decided to revisit an old idea. "I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going 'Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.' ... Everything was 'na na' when you didn't have a lyric,” Leka recalled.
The result was "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," which they planned to use as a B-side to DeCarlo’s next single, but the record label loved it so much they wanted to make it the favored track.
Due to contractual obligations, the single was released under the band name Steam, even though there wasn't a real group at the time.
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 1969, displacing "Come Together" by the Beatles.
With the success of the single, there were demands for Steam to perform live and make TV appearances to support the hit single. But since “Steam” was a fictional group at that time, Leka put together a touring group which toured for much of 1970.
A debut album and a handful of other Steam singles followed, none of which made the same commercial impact as “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.”
To date, the now oldies classic single has sold a total of over six million.
In 1977, Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust began playing the song. It had previously been sung spontaneously by fans in the stands, possibly beginning in a series with the Minnesota Twins July 1–3, 1977, a four-game series swept by the White Sox. The fan version went "Minnesota, Minnesota, Hey Hey Good Bye". Nancy Faust began playing it regularly on the organ later that month. It is generally directed at the losing side in an elimination contest when the outcome is all but certain or when an individual player is ejected, disqualified, or more often in baseball games, a pitching change is made during an inning (which is when Faust would play it). It has also been sung by crowds in political rallies, to taunt political opponents or to drown out and mock disruptive counter-protesters.
Jubilant Biden supporters sang this in the streets when Biden defeated Trump in the US election. I imagine Trump supporters sang it to say goodbye to Biden, Harris and their suppporters.
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Black Betty
Artists:
Ram Jam
Year:
1977
Video link:
About:
"Black Betty" is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources say it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material.
There are numerous recorded versions, including a cappella and folk. The song was eventually, with modified lyrics, remade as a rock song by the American band Ram Jam in 1977. Subsequent recordings, including hits by Tom Jones and Spiderbait, retain the structure of this version.
Historically, the "Black Betty" of the title may refer to the nickname given to a number of objects: a bottle of whiskey, a whip, or a penitentiary transfer wagon. "Black Betty" was a common term for a bottle of whisky in the borderlands between northern England and southern Scotland; it later became a euphemism in the backcountry areas of the eastern United States. However, in more modern song references, the term "Black Betty" alludes to a fast car or motorcycle.
Bill Bartlett had been in the Lemon Pipers and then formed a group called Starstruck. While in Starstruck, Bartlett took Lead Belly's 59-second long "Black Betty" and arranged, recorded and released it on the group's own TruckStar label. "Black Betty" became a regional hit. Producers in New York formed a group around Bartlett called Ram Jam. They re-released the song, and it became a hit nationally. The song became an instant hit and reached number 18 on the singles charts in the United States; in the UK and Australia reaching the top ten.
Ram Jam wasn’t able to keep the momentum rolling, as band turmoil quickly brought the group to an end. They broke up in 1978, roughly a year after “Black Betty” was released. Their follow up album "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram" had achieved little success,
In 2004, Australian alternative rock band Spiderbait released their version, video link:
Worth looking at.
FUNNY FRIDAY
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So here we are in 2025. In the words of John Lennon, the new year just begun, let’s hope it’s a good one, and that it has lots of Friday fun. No, that’s not true, I added the last bit, but the sentiment holds true, so here is the weekly Funny Friday.
Some belated New Year jokes included, as well as a couple of Scottish ones for Dave. Happy New Year laddie.
Enjoy.
Caution: risqué content ahead.
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SOME HUMOUR:
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Did you hear that NYC paid Hillary Clinton $2,000,000 as a consultant for New Year’s Eve?
They wanted an expert on dropping the ball at the last second.
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A guy walks into a bar on New Year's Eve and orders a glass of champagne. "Happy New Year!" he shouts.
"Calm down," the bartender reprimands him. "It's still hours away."
"Sorry," the guy apologises. "My doctor told me I sometimes suffer from premature congratulations."
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Two drunken Irishmen in a graveyard.
Paddy starts reading the gravestones.
"Mick" he says;
Would you look at this, a feller here who was 90 when he died!"
"Who's that?" says Mick.
"Somebody called O'Toole from Kerry," he replies.
Mick says, "Never mind him, there's a feller here called Murphy, was 99 when he died! From Castletown of all places!
"Well that’s nothing!" says Paddy.
"What about what written on this feller's stone, here right beside the gate!"
"The stone says 147!"
"147? That’s amazing!" says Mick.
"Who was he?"
"Well according to the stone, its somebody called Miles from Dublin.”
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Two Scottish nuns had just arrived to the US by boat when one said to the other, "I heard that the occupants of this country actually eat dogs!"
"Odd," her companion replied, "But if we shall live in America, we might as well do as the Americans do."
Nodding emphatically, the mother superior pointed to a hot dog vendor and they both walked towards it. "Two dogs, please," said one.
The vendor was only too pleased to oblige and he wrapped both hot dogs in foil. Excited, the nuns hurried over to a bench and began to unwrap their 'dogs'.
The mother superior was first to open hers, stared at it for a moment, then leaned over to the other nun and whispered cautiously, "What part did you get?"
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A helicopter loses power over a remote Scottish island and makes an emergency landing.
Luckily, there's a cottage nearby, so the pilot knocks on the door. "Is there a mechanic in the area?" he asks the woman who answers.
She thinks for a minute. "No, but we do have a McArdle and a McKay."
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The New York City Public Schools have officially declared Jewish English, now dubbed Hebronics, as a second language. Backers of the move say the city schools are the first in the nation to recognise Hebronics as a valid language and a significant attribute of American culture. According to Howard Ashland, linguistics professor at Brooklyn College and renowned Hebronics scholar, the sentence structure of Hebonics derives from middle and eastern European language patterns, as well as Yiddish.
Professor Shulman explains, "In Hebronics, the response to any question is usually another question with a complaint that is either implied or stated. Thus 'How are you?' may be answered, 'How should I be, with my bad feet?' Shulman says that Hebronics is a superb linguistic vehicle for expressing sarcasm or skepticism. An example is the repetition of a word with "sh" or "shm" at the beginning: "Mountains, shmountains. Stay away. You should want a nosebleed?"
Another Hebronics pattern is moving the subject of a sentence to the end, with its pronoun at the beginning: "It's beautiful, that dress."
Shulman says one also sees the Hebronics verb moved to the end of the sentence. Thus the response to a remark such as "He's slow as a turtle," could be: "Turtle, shmurtle! Like a fly in Vaseline he walks."
Shulman provided the following examples from his best-selling textbook,
Switched-On Hebronics:
Question: "What time is it?"
English answer: "Sorry, I don't know."
Hebronic response: "What am I, a clock?"
Remark: "I hope things turn out okay."
English answer: "Thanks."
Hebronic response: "I should be so lucky!"
Remark: "Hurry up. Dinner's ready."
English answer: "Be right there."
Hebronic response: "Alright already, I'm coming. What's with the 'hurry business? Is there a fire?"
Remark: "I like the tie you gave me; I wear it all the time."
English answer: "Glad you like it."
Hebronic response: "So what's the matter; you don't like the other ties I gave you?"
Remark: "Sarah and I are engaged."
English answer: "Congratulations!"
Hebronic response: "She could stand to lose a few pounds."
Question: "Would you like to go riding with us?"
English answer: "Just say when."
Hebronic response: "Riding, shmiding! Do I look like a cowboy?"
To the guest of honor at a birthday party:
English answer: "Happy birthday."
Hebronic response: "A year smarter you should become."
Remark: "A beautiful day."
English answer: "Sure is."
Hebronic response: "So the sun is out; what else is new?"
Answering a phone call from a son:
English answer: "It's been a while since you called."
Hebronic response: "You didn't wonder if I'm dead already?"
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A Scottish woman visiting the U.S. walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a domestic beer. The bartender asks, "Anheuser Busch?"
The woman, a bit confused replies " It's fine I guess...... Anheuser pecker?"
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LIMERICK OF THE WEEK:
There was a young lady of Gloucester
Whose friends they thought they had lost her
Till they found on the grass
The marks of her arse,
And the knees of the man who had crossed her.
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GALLERY:
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CORN CORNER:
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December 30 has officially been designated as New Year’s Adam.
It comes before New Year’s Eve, a disappointment she’s all too familiar with.
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If "womb" is pronounced "woom", "tomb" is pronounced "toom" then shouldn't "bomb" be pronounced
"BOOM"
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If you own a house and find one ant, you’re okay. If you see two ants, it’s still fine. Six ants? Be careful. Seven ants? Try to get rid of them. Nine ants is the true limit. Because if you find one more, you have tenants and can’t get rid of them without a court order
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I was told that I wouldn’t be very good at poetry due to my dyslexia.
But I think the vase and coffee mug I’ve made so far aren’t too bad.
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Who decided to make dyslexia such a hard word to spell?
Probably the same asshole who thought it'd be fun to add an "s" to lisp.
And who put five syllables in monosyllabic?
And why is separated all together and all together separated?
And the person who named the fear of long words
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
( It really is, see:
Same guy who named a speech impediment where they can't pronounce the letter r as "rhotacism".
And named the speech impediment where someone has difficulty pronouncing the letter L "lamdacism".
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What do Alcoholics call New Year's Eve?
Amateur night!
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What did the elephant say to the naked man?
"Cute, cute, but can it pick up peanuts?"
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I was staying in a hotel last night.
I phoned down to reception. “Hi, this is room 26. Can I have a wake up call, please?”
She said “Yes, you’re in your mid 30s, single, live with your mother and have achieved nothing in life!"
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