Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 06, 2015

There was an 18th or 1`9th C Scottish diarist who did just this. He was a landowner, but had elevated low-self-esteem to an art form and when his tenants bought him a gift he rejected it because he wasn’t “worthy”. A Christian friend of mine who thought that low self-esteem was a noble moral position and who was writing a book about this bloke praised him for this, and I had to point out that far from being self-effacing and unselfish, the diarist had been so self-obsessed that he hadn’t even noticed that he was trampling on the feelings of his tenants and humiliating them to serve his own pet obsession and give himself a warm glow of conscious virtue.

Just show yourself!

I recall a Frank and Ernest with two monks at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter says, “We only have room for one more, which one of you is more humble?”

Y’know? Phoebe and Her Unicorn is just so….literal a title. What do you think about “Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, and Phoebe”? (I wonder if Marigold H.N. feels slighted with second billing as things are…)

They changed the title so it would be accepted by the syndicate.

Also, why stick the letter on their horn, where it could have holes punched through the letter? Can’t they just use magic to levitate it nearby as they walk

@DanaRe: Yesterdays comment to me.WOO HOO!

Drop your dignity Marigold. Just roll in the bushes with him!!

The master said, “No, you are not humble.”

Another novice said, “I am not humble.”

The master said, “That’s right; you are not humble.”

At least they aren’t carrying donuts around on their horns.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less ;)

LOL

Love Phoebe’s response.