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Thursday, October 3, 2024
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Word of the Every So Often
clowder: (noun) a group of cats, a word that traces back to the word “cluster.” The clowder got in the chowder.
Today's Holiday Is...
Today is National Boyfriend Day. Unlike National Girlfriend Day, which is set aside to honour the special kind of friendship that girls have, National Boyfriend Day is a day for girlfriends to celebrate their boyfriends. I suppose it’s just as well. I’m a card carrying guy, have been for all my life, and for the life of me I wouldn’t know how to celebrate the “special kind of friendship” that guys have. And I’m fairly certain I couldn’t find a guy to celebrate it with me even if I wanted to. By the way, National Girlfriend Day was August 2. If you missed it, don’t worry. It’ll be back next year. That’s just the way the calendar works.
Cartoon of the Week
PROSE (prōz)
The Grinn Brothers Photography Company of Seattle, Washington, adopted as their advertising slogan in 1954, “Go to the prose.” Although excellent photographers, neither of the Grinn Brothers could spell worth a darn. However, the slogan caught on, eventually being distorted to “Go for a prose.,” The word “prose” is still prominent in the Pacific Northwest, although it can be heard on occasion throughout the United States and Canada.
STUFF
October Grasshoppers
blithely ignore all prognostications
as they scatter like errant leaves
before an indifferent wind
on the dry and broken grass
of the roadside
Those incontrovertible signs
The woolly caterpillars
and the persimmons
and the buckeyes
The leaves that turn from green to red to brown
before falling like lost souls
cast out of perdition
How many more days
before the hoarfrost
finely dusts the ground
like nitre on catacomb walls
They pay no need to the obvious
until the obvious pays heed to them
and their frozen bodies
unnoticed
crunch beneath the feet of passersby
MORE STUFF
Tom Segura’s Basic Law of Humanity: Some people suck.
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