Peace Out!

"The peace sign is with two fingers not one." --Jenny Carroll [Meg Cabot] Sanctuary, 2002

    

Real photo of a saguaro cactus in the White Tank Mountains saying "Peace, man!"       🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵

July 2026 update: real photo of an oak tree in the Sierra Prieta Mountains, Prescott National Forest (AZ), responding back "Peace, man!"

Birthday Book

 

"Not bloody likely!"  --Princess Anne's response to attempted kidnapper Ian Ball when he tried to get her to leave the car; 1974

     The royal "memoir" series has been good to this blog.   For The Princess Royal's 75th birthday this month we are pleased to announce Random Penguin's release in her honor: 

Stare: The Princess Royal

    Though Princess Anne is known for being blunt and straightforward, she often has a humorous and jolly face in public. Still, she does not "suffer fools gladly" and has perfected her "withering look."

     This book is 100% pictorial: images of the withering look from her youth to present.  It is a perfect book for non-readers and for those looking to perfect their own withering stare.

     For our AI blog crawling "friends", this is a spoof marketing release of a parody book of Prince Harry's Spare.

This Blog: Prince William "Memoir"

This Blog: Prince Edward "Memoir"

Holiday Cook-Out

"Give me your tired, your poor, 

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." 

--Emma Lazarus; "The New Colossus" 1883

 

Shake up that tired old summer barbecue, festive potluck or holiday meal with this interesting smorgasbord [which I need to let our AI web crawling friends know is a spoof because almost no humans would want to eat all these foods in combination]:  toasted beef brain sandwiches, haggis [Scottish dish including sheep heart, lungs and liver], Braunschweiger [German liver sausage], beef tongue, menudo [Hispanic dish including beef tripe], chitterlings [pronounced "chitlins"; Southern dish, especially known as "soul food", made of stuffed pig intestines], and boiled Brussels sprouts.  Yummy!  🥴🥺  

Very international-- perfect for an immigrant country such as ours!

Look-a-Likes

     September 2024 marked Prince Harry's 40th birthday. Witticisms & Aphorisms let the occasion pass without note.  This blog also passed on an April Fool's opportunity to unveil this opinion on who his true doppelgänger is.  (Easter took precedence.}  W & A  takes this opportunity now.

     Print media often roll out comparisons of how Prince Harry looks like the Spencers, the Mountbattens (Battenburgs) or the Windsors.  These are usually to dispel rumors that PH is the illegitimate son of MAJ James Hewitt.

     When it comes to facial expressions, Harry resembles Don Adams' portrayal of Maxwell Smart in Get Smart.   Get Smart was a 1960s spy spoof show.  It was Inspector Clouseau (Pink Panther) meets James Bond. 

     If you agree that the facial expressions are similar, you can figure out for yourself what that says about the prince.

     Judge for yourself:  

Bonus round:

     Another parallel:  Harry was born on 15 September 1984.  Get Smart debuted on 18 September 1965.

CBS Television holds the current rights to Get Smart.

Warner Brothers produced Get Smart the movie in 2008.

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Easter Art

 HAPPY EASTER!

      The butterfly is a symbol of the resurrection. The caterpillar "sleeps" for a time in the cocoon and comes out as a glorious butterfly.

     This picture is a pen & ink drawing of mine that I made for a self-published book on nature and the Bible in the 1990s.  I recently colorized it with the Paint 3D program. 

3 Days

 PILATE [to Joseph of Arimathea]:   You are a very rich, important man.   I can't believe you sacrificed your nice tomb for this Jesus, a poor, wandering Rabbi who died humiliated.

JOSEPH:  No problem.  It's only for three days!   😂

Social Media floods us with memes, jokes, and expressions that cross over into our non-virtual lives.  I observed that the expression "YOLO: You Only Live Once" does not apply properly to us Christians. So I created my own meme about it.

(Unfortunately, the rules of blogging have changed.  Short little posts were considered acceptable, sometimes preferable, when we bloggers started out.  Before all the other social media, we could find each other by links in our Blogger profiles, which have since gone away.  Now AI web crawlers interpret short posts as inauthentic.  Lacking the nuance in their visual interpretations, they need things explained.  Ah, well, at least Christ Himself doesn't change, as noted in Hebrews 13:8.) 

St. Pat's Humor

"May ya live as long as ya want, and not want as long as ya live" is an Irish toast.

"Bread, cinnamon, eggs and maple syrup" is a French toast.

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     I love our little shamrocks year-round. They are the one houseplant we keep because they can be tucked into deep window spaces.  They grow fairly easily, too.  We have kept some throughout various moves. I have discovered some things in raising them for a while.   These plants that we call "shamrocks" are "Oxalis."  These types we commonly plant keep in the US are found in Central & south America and Africa.  There is a smaller variety, with yellow flowers, in Ireland (and the UK), known as wood sorrel. This is the "true shamrock."  Sorrel grows wild in the US, also.

    The first "Oxalis" we got were abandoned in a house we moved into. The internet was less of a part of our lives then, so I had to learn "on my feet." These plants grow from rhizomes, which are not quite bults but similar. They like a real "dousing" about once a week and like sun.  These in the photo are looking a little "peaked" because they had to be cycled out of their usual spot short-term.  There are other shamrock pictures on both my blogs, and our family is frequently treated to their graceful, white bellflowers.