Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes
Funnier than a sharp stink in your eye…
[Sorry… illness, depression and work have kept me pretty busy] The only mammal native to Iceland is the Arctic Fox. This means that, if you run over something while driving at night, you won’t have to check to see what you hit. ֍ Iceland has one of the lowest crime rates in the world; which […]
Read More I’ve Got these Facts About Iceland Down Cold[Thanks to Patti Moore Wilson for the idea] I’m going to call you “spittoon” because I’m drooling over you. ֎ You’re prettier than a wheel of brie and you smell a lot less like urine. ֎ If I promise NOT to call you “spittoon” anymore, THEN will you go out with me? ֎ If I […]
Read More My Special Pickup LinesIn 1884, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow created the first television. It only transmitted still pictures and no sound. Experts believe it is the earliest example of what is today called “public television”. ☻ In 1906, Russian inventor Boris Rosing combined Nipkow’s television with a cathode ray tube. To this day, humans are the only animals to […]
Read More I Channel Facts About Television (1979)Donkeys were domesticated three to five thousand years ago, although you wouldn’t know it by looking at them. They are members of the foul-tempered little horse family of mammals, along with the kiang and the Irish Setter. Donkeys are mentioned in the Bible, Koran, and the Buddhist Sutras; although, they had very little input into […]
Read More Book Excerpt: Part FiveI was listening to a Beatles album in my filthy debris-filled bedroom and it told me to “picture [myself] in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies” and the best I could do was to picture myself on a boat in a filthy debris-filled bedroom. ☼ I was late for my […]
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Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 