Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for August 14, 2015

I never understood why they say that…

Fortunately it was only the chair leg.

Oh boy.

Leo AutodidactThe Evil Eye, a demon, not a god.

Doesn’t look like he had much of an audience, anyway …

hopefully, the evening show will be smoother

In my theater company, the masking curtains that hide the sides of the stage where the actors wait are call “legs.” I was in one show where this curtain got caught on a piece of scenery as they were moving it in place and ripped it almost completely in half. We had lots of fun making jokes about breaking a “leg.”

contralto2bNot the etymology, but a great line under the circumstances.

In german, you say “Hals-und Beinbruch” lit.break your neck and leg, and my godmother who’s german told this to her daughter when she had exams, and her fellow students thought that she was cursing her!