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Today’s theme: Body & Sole (Shoes)
Colorful Living Tip of the Day …
• Warn dedicated pre-med students that if they do nothing but study anatomy they are destined to be real know bodies.
The Bible says …
… our bodies are temples. On Friday nights, mine is more like a honky tonk. Some beer's been spilled, some of the furniture is busted & it smells kinda funny. But the folks are friendly, the peanuts are free and the good music never ends.
… my body is a temple. Could it still be so if it's absent of any devoted worshippers?
• If our bodies are, indeed, temples then how come everything that comes out of them is so disgusting?
Related …
• My desire to live a long time is at odds with my eagerness to donate all my still-healthy organs to needy less fortunates.
• Because of the noisy commotion associated with the happy event, I propose we change "orgasm" to ‘ROARgasm."
• Treat your body like it’s a cherished employee and you’re striving for boss-of-the-year stature. Encourage it to sleep in. Listen to its complaints. Discourage it from stressful activity. Pamper it. Be sure to treat your significant other the same way every once in a while.
Soles (Shoes) …
• I have to think it depresses shoe factory morale that maybe a quarter of the employees report to a department under a sign that reads “HEELS.”
• Flying commercial always makes me feel like I’m a foot getting shoved into a bowling shoe.
• Many writers are on shoe-string budgets. Me, I can't afford shoes with strings. I guess that means I'm on a loafer budget.
• Square feet can be either a standard unit of measurement or a veteran shoe salesman's bucket-list fitting challenge.
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into an actual dictionary) …
Comatoes: The act of one’s foot falling asleep, uncommonly known as the medical condition, parasthesia.
Related blog post …
“A galling story on useless body parts” (from ’12)
I’ve known people who’ve returned from vacation without golf clubs, sweaters and sunglasses. Joe’s the first one who’s ever come back without his gallbladder. He’s maybe my favorite of the bar’s eight Regular Joes who are all conveniently named Joe. He’s 72, looks 58 and acts 23. He’s just a lot of fun. He was returning from Hilton Head when he started feeling severe abdomen pains around Bridgeport, W. Va. He told a friend he needed to be dropped off at the nearest hospital right away. Happily, the two were in a car, not an airplane, or this story would have a more gruesome ending.
Oddly enough …
“When rabid beavers attack” (Sept. ‘12)
When I read the story of the relentless rabid beaver I thought, man, the Steelers could have used a couple of them against Peyton Manning and the Broncos last night. In fact, I urge the Steelers to consider changing the name of the team from The Pittsburgh Steelers to The Pittsburgh Rabid Beavers. “Here we go, Beavers! Here we go!” I’ve never heard of a creature so fierce. Allow me to summarize. Lillian Peterson, a Falls Church, Va., granny, was finishing a recreational lake swim when she felt a sharp pain gnawing at her ankle.
(See full story here)
Concluding words …
• When you break it all down, life is about deciding if you'd rather walk in someone else's shoes or seize them by their throats. Most bowlers choose the former.
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