Monday, April 15, 2024
Pathways
Friday, March 1, 2024
Sunny Days
Rodney Dangerfield dopplegänger? |
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Truman's Swans
Thursday, February 1, 2024
February 14th Hoopla
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Friday, December 15, 2023
Euro Christmas Battle
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
In Time for Thanksgiving...
- the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness."she expressed her gratitude to the committee for their support"
- Origin
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Prince Harry in a Can
- "Todger sheaths" (blue-colored would be best sellers)
- Snake in a can joke-- Harry still recounts with relish the way he was able to pull stunts on others. He could roll out his own snake popping out of the can practical joke line.
- Dried bananas-- the prince reports bananas are a favorite food. Bananas have also figured into some of the couples' internet and royal outing stories...
- Dried mushrooms-- the big surprise would be that they are actually culinary mushrooms and NOT psychedelic mushrooms!
- Ginger Snaps or Ginger Chews (a real thing)
- Removable hip flask of hooch (see, also, below for tequila-specific suggestions). These small tins were, after all, first designed as pocket tins.
- Photo trading cards of the heroic Sussexes saving the world!
- Empty can would make a great cell phone carrier: it might block hacking! He could market this as a 2-in-1 purchase!
- Toilet paper for Arctic & Antarctic adventures
- Tequila minis-- best choice, a joint venture featuring Casamigos Tequila, co-founded by erstwhile acquaintance George Clooney and once shilled by cousin-in-law Jack Brooksbank. He might even get a deal to chug it on camera with Stephen Colbert. [It seems "recovery" from substance abuse means different things to different people, although the recovery community is quite clear about what it means to them.]
- Dried, 'smoked' roast chicken. Apparently roast chicken is another favorite dish of the prince's. [I wonder if the chickens in the Montecito coop realize this; it could make them pretty nervous if they do.] There are several ways that the chicken could be smoked...
- C**k cushion for extreme cold weather adventures. Who knows-- maybe they could even be sold in the small can? I don't really want to know that much detail. [That was a common sentiment of many readers along about January 2023.]
- There's a product sold called "Candle in a Can." Considering painful connections between "Candle" and either of Princess Diana's sons, we will pass on this and wish both men peace in this regard.
- "Air from [Name Place]" is something that is actually sold. Perhaps the California prince could sell "Air from Montecito." (Maybe Montecito is far enough out to avoid the serious smog of L.A.? No one would want "Air from Los Angeles.") There are plenty of "hot air" jokes to Spare here.
- Sterno-type Stove in a Can. Besides melting some snow to rehydrate that dried chicken in a can on your Arctic adventures, you could warm up your freezing todger a bit.
- Empty can would make a great toupee carrier. Or maybe sell "Toupee in a Can." You never know when that time might come for this prince or any man. This would be a great-crossover into cold weather adventure supplies: keeping the bald pate warm on outdoors adventures. This is another 2-in-1 marketing angle.
- In fact, launching a whole line of outdoors adventuring supplies 'in a can' could work. You, too, can go camping (or glamping) with Prince Harry, even if you can't afford to do so in Botswana.
- The empty can of either size could be used as an old-fashioned "hair receiver": save your falling hair for 'future use' in a custom toupee (if you don't purchase a pre-made toupee in the can). Still another 2-in-1 marketing plus.
- Either size could be offered in the "Dior Suit Coronation Version."
- Sadly, no "dry humor" in either can, despite the other dried goods possibilities. Harry's humor doesn't trend in that direction, not even with the help of a renowned ghost writer. Harry's is more the "in your face", unsophisticated type, often practical jokes at others' expense, if Spare is at all accurate.
More Ducal Branding
Saturday, April 1, 2023
More Groucho Marx Quotes
- The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
- I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
- I intend to live forever or die trying.
- A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
- All people are born alike-- except Republicans and Democrats.
- Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
- A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
- She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Either he's dead, or my watch has stopped.
- Why, a four-year-old child could understand this. Run out and find me a four-year-old child: I can't make head nor tail out of it.
- Before I speak, I have something to say.
- Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
- Humor is reason gone mad. --Groucho Marx
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Groucho for Better Thinking
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Growing Up?
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Sledding (Mis)Quotes by Marie
"I sled, therefore I am" --Rene Daycart
"Climb every mountain... Then sled down." --Oscar Hammerstone
"Sometimes a sled is just a sled." --Sigmund Fraud
"I came, I saw, I sledded." --Julius Freezer
Friday, December 3, 2021
Quote from St. Nick
Friday, October 1, 2021
Birds' Nests
"Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided. But because we cannot keep birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them build a nest in our hair." -- Martin Luther's Large Catechism, "Explanation of the Sixth Petition" ("Lead us not into temptation.")
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Unity
Thursday, July 1, 2021
What's Your Path?
Some quotes to ponder as you hike this summer... or not 😉
"Only those who wonder will find new paths." --Norwegian Proverb
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Happy Mother's Day!
This month, I'm putting in part of a poem by English Jesuit poet, Gerard Manly Hopkins. I am not putting in on my other blog because, while it's got nature in it and expresses a form of Christianity, it has many specifically Roman Catholic ideas I do not agree with. Hope you enjoy it!
The May Magnificat*
May is Mary’s month, and I |
Muse at that and wonder why : |
Her feasts follow reason, |
Dated due to season—** |
Candlemas, Lady Day ; |
But the Lady Month, May,** |
Why fasten that upon her, |
With a feasting in her honour ? |
Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, |
Grass and greenworld all together ; |
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted |
Throstle*** above her nested |
Cluster of bugle blue*** eggs thin |
Forms and warms the life within ; |
And bird and blossom swell |
In sod or sheath or shell. |
All things rising, all things sizing |
Mary sees, sympathizing |
With that world of good |
Nature’s motherhood. |
Their magnifying of each its kind |
With delight calls to mind |
How she did in her stored |
Magnify the Lord. |
Well but there was more than this : |
Spring’s universal bliss |
Much, had much to say |
To offering Mary May. |
This ecstasy all through mothering earth |
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth |
To remember and exultation |
In God who was her salvation. --Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, 1844-1889 *The "Magnificat" is a name given to Mary's song from Luke chapter 1. She sang it when the angel told her she was going to become the mother of the Savior. It starts out, "My soul magnfies [makes great, praises] the Lord..." **There are other feast days honoring Mary. The Roman Catholic Church has set May aside as a month to honor her since the17th century. Pope Francis recently declared the Monday after Pentecost to be a feast day for her, since she seems to have been present at the coming of the Holy Spirit. In 2021, it falls on May 21st. A saints day for her that some Protestants also recognize is August 15th; Catholics take this as the commemoration of her being taken up alive into heaven. The Annunciation, marking of when the angel Gabriel came and announced her divine pregnancy is in March (nine months before Christmas). Candlemas is February 2nd and celebrates the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, coinciding with the end of forced ceremonial confinement that a Jewish woman had for 40 days after the birth of a child. He seems to be saying that nature gives many signs that this month honors Mary. Interestingly, though the US and many other countries celebrate Mother's Day in May, the UK celebrates it in late March. ***Throstle: old-fasioned word for "thrush" ****Many birds' eggs are blue. Blue was chosen as a symbolic color for Mary, representing faithfulness and purity. This is saying, as the eggs warm and nurture life inside, Mary did this as Jesus grew within her. |
Friday, April 2, 2021
What's Important
20 But Christ has, in fact, been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep... 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. --St. Paul, I Corinthians 15