Sayings

In respect of the children found in Kamloops, I wish to express my heartfelt sympathy to all the families. Time for Canadians to understand the plight of our brothers and sisters at the hands of our own evil people.

To bring a smile, even a small one to sad faces, and turn the bleakness into a bit of light is the intention of this post. It is a collection of phrases that have made me smile over the years.

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Dr. Walter Murray said, "chewing tobacco did more to discourage 'necking' than a hundred years of reform.  (MacEwan, Grant (1975)...and Mighty Women Too. (Western Producer Prairie Books. Saskatoon.)

"How can a person deceive himself and get away with it?" (Peterson, Jordan. (2018). 12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos. Toronto: Penguin Random House of Canada.

"Every now and then, soft as breath upon my skin, I feel you come back again." (Diamond Rio.             I Believe.)

"Summed up as principal on three words, thoughts become things." (The Secret)

Jokes

"If your eyes hurt when you're drinking coffee, Grandpa says, "remove the spoon."

"I'm so depressed, I'm thinking of buying a gun, Grandpa says, "why not rent one?"

"Koala Crossing - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m." (Just for Laughs)

Olden day medicine and humours

Phlegm - winter - old age 

Melancholy - autumn - maturity 

Choler - summer - youth

Blood - spring - childhood

(Arikha, Noga (2007). Passions and Tempers. A History of the Humours. Harper Collins).

Leprechauns

A legend since medieval times. A tall type of fairy often appearing to humans as an old man (not the modern view of small, childlike and in a green suit.) Leprechauns love to collect gold, store it in a pot and hide it at the end of a rainbow. If a human catches a leprechaun, the fairy must grant the human three wishes before he can be released. (Top 10 Irish Myths and Legends)

St. Patrick

A British child sold into slavery in Ireland. Monks told of him converted to Christianity. He forced all the snakes out of Ireland, but really there never were snakes in Ireland. (Top 10 Irish Myths and Legends)

World Politics

Socialism - You have two cows and you give one to your neighbour.

Communism - You have two cows and you give both to the government and they might give you some milk.

Fascism - You have two cows and you give all the milk to the government and the government sells it.

Nazism - You have two cows and the government shoots you and takes both cows.

Anarchism - You have two cows and you keep both the cows and the shoot the government agent and steal another cow.

Capitalism - You have two cows and you sell one cow and buy a bull.

Surrealism - You have two giraffes and the government makes you take harmonica lessons. (Ann Landers)

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. (Turkish Proverb on Facebook)