Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for August 26, 2012

It’s a good day to be a drone.

“It’s a darn good life and it’s kinda funny How the Lord made the bee and the bee made the honey The honeybee looking for a homeMade my honeycomb.” – Jimmie Rodgers

Oooh… sweet!

But you’d better hope the business does well, and they don’t have to cut corners.

I almost forgot…. I’d meant to leave a comment for Briatollah yesterday,but I didn’t have time to post, It was a couple of days ago now… I’d skipped reading the late comments on “Off the Mark”, not remembering that I’d posted to you there…Don’t know whether you remember…but gosh!I’m sorry if you took anything I said as hostile!I thought it would be clear that I was teasing you, about being jealous of your relative youth…Clear because, for one thing, I wouldn’t use such quaint wording if I weren’t being facetious…and for another,we’ve joked around before so it never occurred to me you’d think I’d be hostile to you.

And mostly, because AFAIK, I’ve never made a hostile post on this site!

I just don’t DO that!But I’m sorry if it sounded that way to you.

@win

A great oldie but goodie.You must be one,too, to remember that one by Jimmie Rodgers.Remember the days when songs used to be on 45’s?Stacks and stacks of wax, courtesy of the bees?Should have minded my own beeswax, but you started this.That song is gonna be running through my head for the rest of the day, thanks to you.

@SusanSunshine

Ever get a chance to check out the word games link at the top of the Merriam Webster online website?Hours and hours of stuff to amuse word game afficionados.Maybe you could pester them enough to include a punner’s section, as know you favor puns.Ever get your speakers fixed, so that Old Fart rants at You Tube may be enjoyed?

b ureself b cause

This reminds me of the pricing game Spelling Bee on The Price Is Right.

My work involves analyzing experiments in hexagonal lattices, so I often have to draw a group of a few cells to try to figure out or explain what I’m doing. I find it difficult, so laud Parisi.

Briatollah — “Meanies” list??? Oh wow…. I’ve never been on one of those.

Might be fun if I get to wear an eye-patch and snarl at people… never tried it.

And yeah, we have every age here.

Doesn’t matter…. people will always find it funny when someone 10 or 15 years younger feels old or mentions old times.Don’t you?I know a 40-year-old professor who says things about “kids today…” and I tell him he IS one

If anyone is interested in the ages represented here …I’ve never tried this on GoComics….. but maybe 2 years ago on Comics.com, I and another poster asked everyone on the Pearls B4 Swine forum whether they considered themselves Baby Boomers, older or younger.

Of the 45 or so willing to answer, most gave their actual ages…. Over 20 were born in the prime Boomer years, between 1946 and 1959… plus a few more, like you, born 1960-64, which is still officially Boomer territory but they ALL added that they didn’t feel part of that generation. (Do you, btw, Briatollah?)

I think we had half a dozen in each of the other three categories: Older than Boomers, b 1945 and before, Gen X-ers, and Gen Y or younger.

That means 2/3 of those respondents, not all of whom are on this site now, would be at least 53 right now…On THIS site I’ve seen a few who mentioned that they’re in their teens or younger…. but not many!

I’m guessing the numbers would be similar though…Some time I should run that unofficial “survey” again.

And Stripseeker…. thanks…. but I’m already addicted to very tough cryptic crosswords, and sudoku…not to mention to Google, and to this site…. and to FlipBoard on my phone. I really don’t need more addictions!

if you love word games. Try dictionary.com they have a game there that helps with vocab.