Chips off the old Klock
BY JOE KLOCK, Klockworks
It has been just about a year since publication of the XIXth (well, why not?) in this series of brainburps which are not pithy enough for full columny, but sufficiently profound to escape condemnation to the bottom of my literary bird cage.
Readers who find any of them inspiring, or who simply have nothing better to, do are invited to expand on them and/or inflict them on their own defenseless kith and kin and/or launch them into the black hole of Spamworld.
Dumping them herein will have a purgative effect on your humble scribe's swollen files of flotsam, jetsam and thensome.
Some of the items are original, some reconstructed from random notes, and some have origins as obscure as old wives' tales, ethnic folklore and Yogi Berra quotations.
Anyway, for what it's worth, here goes:
Becoming a parent is nothing more than a biological function; being one is quite something else.Reportedly, the average male will spend six months of his life waiting for red lights - even longer while his life partner selects restaurant seating, buys shoes, or "gets ready" for bed.
It doesn't take any exceptional talent to do your best; it does, however, demand nothing less than all you've got.
Related principle: When you've done your best in whatever fields of endeavor are important to you, you have reached the pinnacle of human potential, and nobody in the history of mankind has ever done more or done better.
Life may not always be a bowl of cherries and a barrel of laughs, but it beats hell out of the only really known alternative.
The prototypical loser is a flagpole sitter with a kidney condition.
There's no such thing as a lost opportunity; the ones you and I pass up are sure to be found by someone else. Otherwise, why didn't one of us invent Post-It Notes?
The contribution of drummers to music is more than just cymbalic. (Sorry about that!)
How come oversee and overlook have opposite meanings, while quite a lot and quite a few are similar in meaning?
Adam His Kin The Lost History - News
Readers who find any of them inspiring, or who simply have nothing better to, do are invited to expand on them and/or inflict them on their own defenseless kith and kin and/or launch them into the black hole of Spamworld. Dumping them herein will have
But all I shall say for now is best of luck to Adam Copeland in all his future endeavours, and I sincerely hope he enjoys a peaceful retirement. Being as mad as a box of frogs, Hulk Hogan could well return to the WWE at any given moment.
Lucy, Edmund and their cousin join King Caspian on a mission to find the lost Lords of Telmar. (PG) (2:00) MAX: Wed. 8 PM (CC) • Circle '10. Gail O'Grady. A team of FBI agents and sheriffs pursues a fugitive serial killer aiming to return to his
