To recognize the release of Prince Harry's Spare in paperback and to commemorate Prince Edward's 60th birthday this past March (2024), Random Penguins Publishing is proud to announce this royal release. Every bit as honest as Spare, this release about (?) or from (?) Prince Edward takes a different format:
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Another Royal Memoir?
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Happy Mother's Day
Monday, April 1, 2024
Failed Products
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Truman's Swans
Friday, January 12, 2024
Spare No Expense
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.
Monday, August 1, 2022
Internet [Clean] Aging Humor
1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are
probably in prison.
2. To me, "drink responsibly" means "don't spill your Diet Pepsi in the car."
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new
midnight.
4. It's the start of a brand-new day, and I'm off like a
herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, "The other day," I could be
referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound
effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes
back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.
10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the
seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the
money?"
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say
"nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three
days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed
the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I
squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound
like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly
remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words
like "east."
19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would
be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life
out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those
people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Grammatically Correct
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Why Did That Chicken Cross the Road?
(Some of this is a bit behind the times, but you all still know the references.)
SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, he's a maverick!
BARACK OBAMA: Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to surrender her eggs. Period.
HILLARY CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make why the chicken crossed the road.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or against us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now and will remain against it.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he is acting by not taking on his current problems before adding any new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross the road so badly. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a NEW CAR so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way the chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it's lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2014, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2014. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
Saturday, December 1, 2018
An English Major Walks Into a Bar...
*A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs.
*A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
*A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, sees the handwriting on the wall, but hopes to nip it in the bud.
*A cliché walks into a bar---fresh as a daisy, cute a s button, and sharp as a tack.
*Two quotation marks walk into a "bar."
* A synonym strolls into a tavern.
---from bluebirdofbitterness.com
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Onward, Christmas Warrior
Although a theologically conservative Christian, I am beyond tired of hearing about the so-called "War on Christmas." Now, with some Evangelicals all but mandating we say "Merry Christmas", I'm rebelling. I don't want these guys telling me what I must say over the holidays. So, I will NOT be saying "Merry Christmas." But I'm not settling for a secular "Happy Holidays."
My preferred seasonal greeting, being German-American is "Fröliche Weihnachten." (That's roughly pronounced "FRAY-lick-eh VY-nahk-ten." It literally means "Happy Holy Nights." If you can get it out well, my respect for you will grow.) I will also respond to "Feliz Navidad", "Buone Natale" or "Joyeaux Noel." I'm going to add "Nollaig Chridheim" (Scottish-Gaelic) to my lexicon, in recognition of the great amount of Scottish blood my husband and children carry.
Please do not darken my presence by trying to force a "Merry Christmas" out of me.
Thank you. 💚💖💚💖🙃😉
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Mad Hatter
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Friday, January 6, 2017
Wisdom for Facebook
With all the crazy fake news on Facebook and other random, short-sighted spoutings-off on social media, these words of a classic Greek philosopher take on new meaning:
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." ---Plato
modernized detail (Plato & Aristotle) from Raphael's "School of Athens", 1509-1511 |
Thursday, November 3, 2016
NEWS EXTRA!!!!
BREAKING NEWS: The FBI is investigating irregularities into the 2016 World Series. Director James Comey has decided to make this information public before there are leaks from Kurds attempting to show that Russians were attempting to influence the outcome of America's favorite pastime.
It has recently been revealed that the originator the Cubbies' curse, William Slanis, was actually of Russian origin; his actual name was William Stanislavsky. He was a Cold War era spy for the Russians. Although Communism has failed and Slanis has long since passed, there is evidence that his Moscow relations, close friends of Vladimir Putin, had been working with WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to influence the outcome. The attempt was to create a tied score, to create more disruption and suspicion in American culture at a time when many Americans were already saying, "Holy smokes... how'd we end up in this situation?"
There are also investigations into complaints from all major league teams that the umpiring was rigged throughout the entire season. Many fans took up this position over the season, but felt their opinions went unheard. Ken Bone (the "red sweater guy") commented exclusively (to every major news outlet) that a system is rigged when you can no longer yell at the umpire, "The ump needs glasses!", due to political correctness run amok. (This in spite of his own use of eyewear.) His remarks are under suspicion, now, because he first gained fame by wearing a RED sweater ("red" for Cardinals, not for communists, at least not until more innuendo surfaces) and talking in ST. LOUIS!!!
Russians, knowing that baseball is already steeped in superstition, felt that they could mastermind this. If successful, their next step was to muscle into the Ukrainian vodka business, the true fuel of that part of the world.
Neither Putin nor Assange would comment. But it has been discovered they speak regularly on red phones named "The Bat-**** Super-Crazy Phone."
It is not known yet whether Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg has been favoring the posts of one team over the other. Alogorithms are being carefully analyzed by the FBI, the CIA, and Mad Magazine.
Megyn Kelly is undergoing serious new hairstyling, sources reveal, to be prepared to take on this story live. Although Ms. Kelly would not comment herself, one of her staffers leaked, "It's so stupid to have to make it about a woman's hair at a time like this, but you know how it is..."
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
The Mighty Baywolf (an epic)
There is a Saxon Fierce
As strong as 30 steers
Who claims he's felt no fears
In all his 80 years.
'Round him rise up jeers
From warriors chugging beers.
Baywolf rises as he leers
Greeted by his brave band's cheers.
What I see now does certainly beat all
In this, the cold and stench-filled mead hall:
Baywolf, standing proud and tall
Sees his opponents 'round him fall
As his troops prepare to maul.
Who faint in fear when Baywolf says "Boo."
"Beowulf", 1910 from Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race |
And turns to his men, ready to scold:
"Comrades-in-arms, you know I am old
And down to my bones I am always cold.
But, you, young men, are not very bold,
For rather than bathe, you're covered with mold.
And unless we kill this bard, 'twill always be told
How, among us, this ignominious day
Men fell around us this disgraceful way
As your own odor greeted each nose,
And they fell dead, without any blows."
As they turn on me quickly,
I let out a plea:
If before I die, they'll humor me,
And find me a word that rhymes with "orange."
----C. Marie Byars
Friday, February 20, 2015
The 50 Shades of the Picture of Dorian Christian Grey
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Temperature Conversion Chart
60 Degrees Fahrenheit. Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. New Englanders sunbathe.
40 Degrees F. Italian & English cars wont' start. New Englanders drive with the windows down.
20 Degrees. Floridians put on heavy coats, gloves, wool hats & thermal underwear. New Englanders throw on a flannel shirt.
20 Degrees Below Zero. Californians fly to Mexico. New England Girl Scouts start selling cookies door-to-door.
40 Below. Washington, D.C. runs out of hot air. New Englanders let the dogs sleep in side.
60 Below. Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. New Englanders get frustrated because they can't start their "kahs." ---Anonymous circular