Is Leaning Back in the Seat in Front of ME Really More Comfortable?

Believe it or not this was in the NY Times this week.  Joseph Barro wants you to pay him to keep his seat upright.

Should the knee defender be banned?
A dispute got way out of hand
A passenger groused
And then he got doused
They cut short the flight to land.

The New York Times is opining
On the etiquette of seat back reclining.
Who owns the air rights
To their seat on plane flights?
It seems these rules need defining.

The Second Amendment Was Written When You Had to Stop to Reload

Six bullets to stop an unarmed man.

"Guns don't kill, people do."
In Ferguson this may be true
But an Uzi went wild
In the hands of a child
Shooting her instructor before he ever knew.

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right.

The magazine had lots of rounds in it
The gun can fire 600 a minute
As amusement it's fine
For a young child of nine
And Arizona law does permit it.

Do Any of You Know How to Do This?

There is expertise that my skill set lacks
When I sit down my superego reacts
I'm able to do nothing
But it just keeps on fussing -
And I really find it hard to relax.

Grammar Rules

Three views of grammar.

Grammar rules are like, last century

We ditch it, if its up to me

They’re a pain in the butt

Me and my friends are So What?

We could care less, literally.

Ain’t got no use for no grammar rules

They tried to frickin’ learn me in schools

‘Course I goan diss ‘em

Ain’t nobody goan miss ‘em

No good to nobody but fools.

Grammar is evolving today

I doubt the subjunctive will stay

Many mangle the possessive

Ignore the objective

And even the past tense is passé.

Ms. Doty (7th grade English teacher) should be smiling in her grave because the first two were very hard for me to write.

Euphemisms

If someone posts smut on the internet and no one understands it, is it still obscene?  You may have to consult this website in order to understand the following.  

http://mentalfloss.com/article/57872/31-adorable-slang-terms-sexual-intercourse-last-600-years

Remember Mark Sanford who said he’d been hiking on the Appalachian trail?

He hiked on the Appalachian trail 

Chasing Argentinian tail 

By boarding land carracks 

Forming a beast with two backs, 

The soul mates played at couch quail. 

Is your hormone level too high? 

There’s culbatizing exercise you can try, 

Play hey gammer cook 

Or lerricompoop,

In Eros’ embrace you may die. 

Play the pyrdewy, don't wait 

Dance the Paphian jig until late 

Fadoodle and hug 

Play nug-a-nug 

And give a green gown to your mate. 

My thanks to poet and friend Peter H Desmond for giving me the link to mental floss.  You can read some of Peter’s poems on:

http://www.shitcreekreview.com/issue6/page12.htm?12

http://www.poetryporch.com/scroll00.html

http://ramblingrose.com/folly/2005_09/the_cafe.html

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/desmond.html

August

A minor milestone.

Seven months of blogging today

Seven months of ego display

I don’t know why

I’m basically shy

And some days have nothing to say.

Isn't taking all of August off kind of a French thing?

Congress went home for recess

But now their work starts in earnest

They fundraise and schmooze

Learn their big donors’ views

And return in September to rest.

Not PC

I’ve been using Macs for about 30 years, and PCs for 10 or so.  I have one program which only runs on Windows.  That program is fine, but the Windows part ....

The irritation is difficult to bear

And my Doctors don’t seem to care

They express disbelief

And offer no relief

For my allergy to Microsoft software.