Here's a Golden Oldie from 2011, Remember tthat year? Neither do I. Briliant new post almost ready.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011

Other people's stuff, more or less.

Every day I try to say unique things... likeUnique New York, three times real fast... or the world's hardest tongue-twister, The sixth sheik's sheep is sick. 

Or, I had a wooden whistle and it wouldn't whistle, then I got a steel whistle and it still wouldn't whistle. So I got a tin whistle... and now I 'tin' whistle...   but enough of me.

I just read a little of Mardy Grothe's new book,  Neverisms: A Quotation Lover's Guide to Things You Should Never Do. It makes so much common sense:

• Never order barbecue in a place that also serves quiche.
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
• Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
• Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.
• Never get caught in bed with a live man or a dead woman.
• Never change diapers in mid-stream.
• Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
• Never eat at a place called "Mom's."
• Never give your girl and your dog the same kind of jewelry.

See? And you probably have your own. Let me know and I'll add to the list.

Then there are "Ruminations" by Aaron Karo that ring true. He says:

• They want me to mail in my 'scrap gold. Scrap gold? Yeah, I keep it out in the garage next to the barrel of worn out diamonds.
• I still don't understand why people have different opinions than me.
• How did no one else have the same shoe size as Cinderella? Was she some kind of freak?
• Why don't they just bottle tears and sell them as make-up remover?
• All of those extreme couponers across America need to get together and propose a budget plan to the president.
• One poor movie decision and now Netflix thinks I'm an 80-year-old woman
• I hate it when people I hate like things that I like.

Other important things to know:

• The incredibly beautiful 'Toilet Seat Hat' worn by Princess Beatrice, (Fergie's daughter--no, not the singer) at the royal wedding six weeks ago was sold at auction for  about $100,000 US dollars (I couldn't find the British 'pound' sign on my computer) to some lucky person. Don't worry... the money will go to charity... to help them buy toilet seats for that proverbial pot, if they have one. Now, who would pay a hundred grand, let alone be able to afford it?

• Maybe one of these guys... The world's four richest men, Carlos Slim (a Mexican magnate), Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mukesh Ambani (India's richest) control more wealth than the world's 57 poorest countries. Take that, third world.
• Malawi (in Southeast Africa) is considering a law against breaking wind in public. That could lead to a lot of finger pointing.
• One out of three people under the age of 40 in the USA has at least one tattoo except in the NBA where the percentage has to be in the high 90s, which might skew the numbers. Now multiple ear-piercings are OK, but some go even further and opt for elf ears... where the tops of their ears are cut then sewn back together in a pointed shape. Neat, Tinker Bell.
• Almost half of the adults left in Detroit are functionally illiterate, says a recent study. Gohw Tygers!
• There are now 7 billion of us on earth... soon to grow to 10 billion by 2020... and perhaps 15.8 billion by 2100... and we'll still have room left over in Wyoming.
• Talk about high paid athletes, Gaius Appuleius Diocles, called the "champion of all charioteers" in 146 a.d., retired at 42 with 36 million sesterces in earnings... about $15 billion in today's world, not counting Nike endorsements.  

True story: When a British schoolboy was unable to remove a vase that was stuck on his head (don't ask me how or why), his mom took him to the hospital on a city bus for a medically approved removal. Apparently, hospitals have better hammers. In an attempt to make the boy look more normal to the other passengers, she placed a school cap on top of the vase... but, according to reports, refrained from drawing a smiley face... because it might look 'too fakey.' (OK... I made the 'face' part up.)

 True fact: The average cost to treat a bullet wound: $17,000. Life is so unfair... where would a phesant get $17,000?

True statement: Good night.