Reality Check by Dave Whamond for January 18, 2023

Tangents help give context to the story. Not everything has to be a tweet, you millennial.

Railroad tangents are actually straight sections of right-a-way. Some tangents in the flatland West run along for mile after mile.

So there I was, there I was, there I was… in the Congo! Say, did I ever tell y’all about that trip to your grandma’s I made in waist deep snow?

Like that? ツ

Warning: the Tangent looks like an exit … but it’s not. It will almost always eventually lead back to the original story and you may have to cover (hear) some of the same ground (information) previously covered (told) again.

A road less traveled.

“You’ve yourselves to blame if it’s too long;

You should never have let me begin, begin,

You should never have let me begin."

—Tom Lehrer

careful, there are tangents on the tangents…

“Now I told you that story so’s I could tell you this one…”

Full bladder-caused tangents always appreciated …!

You’d think she’d be more enthusiastic about a tan gent…

My dad didn’t really do that, but I had a college professor that did that, I liked his intern/teaching assistant better [Physical Science].

Keep on Mansplaining Lane, and then…. your options are… because, or.. , etc.

An Englishman in Miami?

Hm, there really is a Tangent, Oregon. Not so coincidentally, right off the freeway!

Did the math/business double major have to sine and cosine for a bank loan?

Hold on a secant, I want to read that sine again.