Dr Wingnut

Category: General

  • Anger

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    When anger rises, think of the consequences.ConfuciusAnger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.Greg EvansBut when [people] get angry, they bring about a change.Malcolm XI have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me…

  • Costco moves the merchandise

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    I like warehouse stores because I can get bulk quantites of stuff and reduce the amount of packaging our household is contributing to the waste stream.  Back when I started shopping at warehouses, when they were call “Wholesale Club,” and that’s exactly what they were, just dimly lit warehouses with signage that said where the…

  • Bore

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    Everyone is a bore to someone.  That is unimportant.  The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.Gerald Brenan

  • The Inheritance

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    Due to inherit a fortune when his sickly, widower father died, Robert decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with.  So he went to a singles bar and he searched until he spotted a woman whose beauty took his breath away.“Right now, I’m just an ordinary man,” he said to her, “but within a…

  • Non-living things have gender

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    You may not know this but many non-living things have a gender.Ziploc Bags are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.Copiers are Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again.A Tire is Male, because it goes bald and it’s often over inflated.A Hot…

  • Annus Horribilis

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    A second flood, a simple famine,Plagues of locusts everywhere,Or a cataclysmic earthquake,I’d accept with some despair.But no, You sent us Congress!Good God, Sir, was that fair?John Adams’ prayer, from the movie “1776”With the prospect of a influenza outbreak of pandemic proportions, major earthquakes, tsunami’s and hurricane’s in the last year; you begin to wonder if…

  • GR8 Plate

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    I have a habit, while driving of making words out of the acronyms on license plates.  Yesterday I was out on some errands, and was stuck behind a guy that had the Minnesota plate PRK-050.  Which naturally was transformed into, “Prick number fifty.”  I know that it was a guy and that it was an…