Not too long ago, it was dangerous to leave a cat in the same room as a sleeping baby. The cat would steal the baby’s breath and sometimes the baby would die. Such was the belief and I am sure your grandma, is she is at least 85 will remember and affirm that.
Reminds me of an episode on WLW Radio’s Gilbert Gnarley who called a Dr. that had recommended they he change his diet to prunes and bran. He told the dr. that he knew he was living a longer life, but he was spending it all in the ..
Ω has been calculated to 40,000 figures. That to me is a more impressive calculation than the scientific guess about grains of sand. Any one can say something like that and there is no one who can say, " I re-counted them and that number is not true"
One of the funniest one liners I ever heard was when I was watching an episode of Barney Miller. Lt. Luger came into the station, saw an older couple yelling at Barney and asked Sgt. Dietrick what was the problem? Dietrick said the semen sample they had left at a local cryogenic lab had been destroyed and now He is too old to have children and they want it back. Luger sneered as he glanced at the couple and said to Dietrick, ‘dead beats’. And Dietrick said, ‘exactly’.
Sometimes I think cartoonist are the most artistic realm around. They have to draw the little things, such as where to put a hand or a facial expression before the major part of the cartoon. I am looking at her hand covering her mouth and realize that has to be drawn before the facial concern expression she is showing with her glasses. He has to see the entire comic in his mind before ever laying his pen to the paper.
Well, there is the smell.