Good news for people who love bad news
I just got this letter from my dad. I thought that maybe you'd enjoy reading it for kicks and it might cheer one up a little.
Dear Joshua,
In the Peter Benchley novel that I am reading right now one of the characters named Foster Pym described the things and people he didn't like: Jews, Catholics, pregnant women, Arabs, cocker spaniels, garlic, Manx cats, left handed people, people with dentures, Greeks, black people, lotteries, and Chinese food.
Not wanting to ascribe to being either racist or bigoted I personally think he went too far with hating Manx cats....I may have added East Indians but perhaps not every one of them. There are some strikingly beautiful women but only on the pre-condition they promise to be my love slaves.
Lessons learned in life - do not smack a skunk with a chicken feeder just because he refuses to go quietly. Never allow a blow job to become a wedding anouncement. Never make snap behavioural classifications on research questions. If you must choose role models then Tony Soprano is my first choice. Never, never trust a republican to do the right thing. Scholarly research is somewhat over-rated. Masturbation is highly under-rated and under-appreciated by laity, politicians, school teachers, and left handed people.
I am as qualified to be the new combined Supreme Military Commander for Afghanistan and Iraq as geo w bush, dick cheney, and donald rumsfeld. Perhaps even more so since I come from a highly combative family.
It is blowing forty hells here and my deck chairs are dancing a fandango all over the place. Memo to self: Buy concrete deck chairs next time.
Cleaning the deck of leaves, chuff, catkins, old debris from the winter, transmogrified bodies, and ghost cattle 24 hours before they forecast gale force winds is a total waste of time and effort. Just look out there on the deck now.
Just a few thoughts for a windy Monday.
Love - Dad
Dear Joshua,
In the Peter Benchley novel that I am reading right now one of the characters named Foster Pym described the things and people he didn't like: Jews, Catholics, pregnant women, Arabs, cocker spaniels, garlic, Manx cats, left handed people, people with dentures, Greeks, black people, lotteries, and Chinese food.
Not wanting to ascribe to being either racist or bigoted I personally think he went too far with hating Manx cats....I may have added East Indians but perhaps not every one of them. There are some strikingly beautiful women but only on the pre-condition they promise to be my love slaves.
Lessons learned in life - do not smack a skunk with a chicken feeder just because he refuses to go quietly. Never allow a blow job to become a wedding anouncement. Never make snap behavioural classifications on research questions. If you must choose role models then Tony Soprano is my first choice. Never, never trust a republican to do the right thing. Scholarly research is somewhat over-rated. Masturbation is highly under-rated and under-appreciated by laity, politicians, school teachers, and left handed people.
I am as qualified to be the new combined Supreme Military Commander for Afghanistan and Iraq as geo w bush, dick cheney, and donald rumsfeld. Perhaps even more so since I come from a highly combative family.
It is blowing forty hells here and my deck chairs are dancing a fandango all over the place. Memo to self: Buy concrete deck chairs next time.
Cleaning the deck of leaves, chuff, catkins, old debris from the winter, transmogrified bodies, and ghost cattle 24 hours before they forecast gale force winds is a total waste of time and effort. Just look out there on the deck now.
Just a few thoughts for a windy Monday.
Love - Dad