Not very English. Tradition and a public celebration of achievement. I enjoyed both my graduations: for a B.S. and my masters degree. The drunken orgy afterwards was also fun.

Nuking the French is obviously worth the effort. I’ve always vacillated if nuking the English would be worth the trouble. Obviously, the Irish should be wiped off the map. Ditto for Canadians.

I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, ****-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country. We've been out of it for so long I'd forgotten all about it.

Further explanation is needed.

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I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for the fourth time. I recommended it to somebody last week, and started to look at a free, pdf copy of it, with no intention of reading much, and now I've nearly finished it again. They're travelling west, and have arrived in Oregon, and those lines seemed to go with Zeno's post somehow.

I've never read it, but I might if it's a PDF.

Zeno thinks the Irish should be eliminated. Good thing I'm only half Irish. Since the other half is British, I might get a break.

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When Groucho Marx was told his daughter couldn't go into a club swimming pool because she was a Jew, he replied, "My wife is not Jewish. Can she go swimming and let our daughter wade up to her waist?”

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Damn, I thought you were going to admonish me for giving a quote without a reference. In which case I was going to bring up the thread title.

highly discourage zeno and the arts of groucho marx maintenance
otherwise robert pirsig is a fantastic read
i would be lila if i told you otherwise

There is a great sequence in the movie Blazing Saddles in which the Irish come up in a discussion! Perhaps some of you remember it.

Too English. And she doesn’t have boobs to speak of. Not a bad singing voice. So you hit one out of three. In baseball that ain’t bad.

Among the many scenes which would make a re-make of Blazing Saddles impossible today.

There's a beautiful passage in it where he teaches writing to a student with nothing to say by getting her to look at the ultimate brick.

14 year old granddaughter won $300 in a VFW "oratorical speech writing" contest.

In other news, not driving again really sucks. I need to ask people for help, which I don't like at all. And I was looking forward to driving in Ireland at the end of the summer.

After a week playing golf in Hilton Head, I found out I'm terrible but enjoy playing even more.

Finally home after over two weeks away. I let my friend borrow my car, but I was away when she asked. Fortunately for her, she knows how to get into my apartment that I never lock to get the extra key fob. I left two casserole dishes to soak and forgot to clean them before I went to pet sit for a week and a half. They stunk. She cleaned them.

I also have two weeks of pet sitting coming up for my daughter. I guess it's a good thing I have the summer off, but I sure as hell wish I could drive.

I guess I will watch tons of movies and get some reading done. What else is there to do?
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I got a Garmin health tracking watch, it seems pretty much the most effective way to keep track of the important stuff. I thought seeing my heart rate all the time would give me anxiety but it’s done the opposite.

Guys, I just discovered something and I'm not sure what it means...but I'm shook:

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

It’s all part of a Satanic Plot to confuse people.

demanders knew
mended wankers
remended swank

Anybody watch the Celtics game.

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Somebody has scored some really good stuff and isn't sharing.

Examined for cataract surgery today. The doctor ran through the options and possible complications. In rare cases people have lost an eye.

Then I would get to wear a cool eye patch, I said.

A woman brought me to another room to schedule me for the surgery and asked if I would like my wife to come in.

She's not my wife. She is a friend who drove me here.

Most men want to have their wives come in for the scheduling of surgery.

She's not my wife I repeat. I give the woman my daughter's name as a contact.

We go outside to the waiting area.

I'm glad your wife is here to drive you home.

I surrendered. She's a good wife.

The entire process took almost three hours, and driving back and forth took almost an hour each way. So I took my wife to dinner.



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congrats on the new spouse John!

Sigh, John.

On the plus side, if your experience is like mine, you'll really like the outcome. Super easy, and the difference is almost literally night and day.

During the procedure, you look into the device, and they ask you to focus on a light (not bright) in the middle and keep your eye there.

In the lead-up to my surgery, I practiced holding my focus on a specific point for minutes at a time. No idea if it helped or not, but that might be something to try.

Best of luck.

I'm happy to get it done. The only thing that bothers me, besides keeping my eyes open, is putting in eye drops. I'm terrible at using eye drops.

But I will be happy to correct the nearsightednes. I can never keep my glasses clean.

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