Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 16, 2010

There’s a young confusion saying…

Yep, that’s about right. Chinese sayings often don’t mean a thing when translated.

“Confuse-Us say…”

Dorothy Parker had this experience. She woke up in the night with a brilliant idea for a poem that “explained everything” and wrote it down. It was: Hogamus higamus, men are polygamous. Higamus hogamus, women monogamous.

Actually, there’s is a lot of truth there. Just look at our revered leaders and sports heroes. But I think women may be catching up.

I found this on my nightstand one morning….

One and one make four which is twice as more as a day feeding children at the zoo.

See the mushroom cloud stirring up the crowd who keeps asking “What Would Jesus Do?”

(I decided to keep it to remind me to cut back on the pizza and beer.)

heard he got laid off and now works in a fortune cookie factory

Drinking will do that to you.

Quasimodo: I’d have said, ”Dactylic tetrameter,” but since almost everyone knows more about poetry than I do, I’ll accept your call; and if knowing that ever saves my life, I’ll thank you very kindly..

poet-schmowit

Confucius say: He who walks on thin ice is all wet.

Here’s hoping this will help you get through the

day.