Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Twitter

I had thought that "twitter" was a synonym for excited meaningless chatter, but no. Seems that it is a social networking site for people who cannot digest messages longer than 140 characters.

Gene Weinarten's column about it is funny
. He does the "twitter" version of a famous speech at the end.

So anyway, today I was at the airport. I went there to check on the airplane after a recent storm and to fly it a little. As I tied it down afterwards, I saw something moving across the paved area of the tiedown pad. It was a woolly caterpillar and it was moving at the equivalent of a flat-out run across the pad. The tiedown pad is asphalt, the sun was out, and it must have felt to that caterpillar as though it was running across a desert. When it reached the grass, it slowed down to a relative crawl.

The cats are doing what they do. Jake is lying on a window shelf, watching the world go by. Gracie is snoozing and George is eating.

3 comments:

deadstick said...

It would be entirely appropriate to shorten the site name to four letters...

Comrade Misfit said...

I agree.

BadTux said...

I liked the Twitter version of a classic novel that someone posted in the comments to that article:

MobyDk - Call me Ish. Weird capt chase big white whale. Ish lives! Capt dies.

Heh!

- Badtux the Literary Penguin