(Toe) Breaking News: Surgery results!
I never really thought about being a podiatrist, but I once repaired an Apple music device. I guess that makes me an iPodiatrist.
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Today’s theme: Grab Bag
Colorful Living Tip of the Day …
• Don’t be so skeptical about compliments. If someone tells you you’re wonderful, don’t humbly hem and haw. Just be gracious and say, “Thank you!” Because chances are they’re correct. You are wonderful.
(Un)Related …
• I so love the word "hanky-panky" I'm devoting weekend to finding useful meanings for hinky-pinky, henky-penky, honky-ponky & hunky-punky.
• Can't prove it, but I'll wager Superman was the first person to ever say, "I see London, I see France ..."
• True faith isn't believing in God. True faith is when Curly yells, "Moe! Larry! Help! Help!" and believes the situation will improve.
• It reveals a profound ignorance about my understanding of pharmaceuticals, but I'm surprised iron supplements don't weigh more.
• I wonder how many people have died choking on a Life Saver furiously aware of the irony.
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into a dictionary) …
Global Warming SCOPEtics: People who are not only skeptics of climate change, but also believe we can still consume fossil fuels at an alarming rate and things will still turn out all green and minty fresh.
Bonus Zeitgust: Brand new word! EgoTESTicle!
Someone will one day identify an exclusively male condition in which men convince themselves they alone possess the virility and sex appeal to, if needed, re-populate the entire planet. These men are "egoTESTicle.”
Mine is the coolest office on Earth …
It was a long time ago, but I still recall being a promising young writer and hearing a wise mentor say, "Kid, you're really going to go places." Some 40 years later, the only place I ever go is The Tin Lizzy. I wonder if that's what he meant. It is quite a place.
Oddly enough (stories from my story treasure chest) …
“Doc to pay $500,000 for colonoscopy banter”
(from ’15) …”
I was disappointed a northern Virginia jury awarded a colonoscopy patient $500,000 after he heard derogatory banter he’d inadvertently recorded during the operation. The amount should have been more. And he should have had to pay it!
Studies have shown work place morale improves when employees are free to blow off steam through irreverent comments about stressful work conditions. It’s true with air traffic controllers, highway construction workers and with coal miners who go into deep dark holes to excavate essential fossil fuels. Why should it be any different for the only men and women who go into deeper, darker holes than our fearless miners?
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Concluding words …
• World will be a better place when all those scheming to find the means to an end instead work on finding an end to the means.
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Be sure to tune in Saturday, 8:30 a.m., to Sirius XM radio, Road Dog Trucker, ch. 146. Affable host Jimmy Mac and I will chat about of my Latrobe/Arnold Palmer stories. Here’s the audio from my Feb. 27 visit.