Redefining misanthropy for a fresh generation. Standard posts begin with a definition from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary followed by a modern adjustment. Miscellany on Wednesday and storytelling on Saturday.
Sauerkraut, as a man of the pre-cro-magnon sort, accountability rarely finds me.
Defense, on the other hand. Amoeba, are the other two Software and Pop-up?
Sauerkraut, you must be one of the more refined varieties.
It still is, by George.
Thom, as opposed to maul.
Actonbell, I expected you to go with the boring stuff that assembles shoes. Is there a feminine vice you lack besides run-on sentences?
Ariel, that was a clever pun!
TLP, some days you make restraint difficult.
Logo, be thankful. I learned to drive taking my dad to the emergency room during home-improvement projects. Eventually I learned to keep the car running. What I never realized until just now was that my dad's idea of home improvement was moving from a two-parent household to a one-parent household.
Quilly, that might be Strawberry Fife trying to come back, which I encourage.
Cooper, when I use a windows machine that's all I ever think about.
Well done, Jim.
Nessa, I suppose I would have if I had a conscience to nag me.
Yer gonna get hammered for your men's definition.
ReplyDeleteHARDWARE, n. The Father, First of the Three Persons of the God Computer.
ReplyDeleteAnd whyfor, O Great Kitty, should Our Dawg get hammered for calling a spade a spade?
... suspected I might get raked over the coals, but et tu amoeba?
ReplyDeleteace is the place
ReplyDeletepeace
HARDWARE, n. - As opposed to software?
ReplyDeleteWow, Actonbell. That's a gem.
ReplyDeleteHardware: what little boys give to their jeans.
ReplyDeleteOr, a girdle.
Nice pun Ariel.
ReplyDeleteIf only that described his indulgence to the extent it described my conscience...
ReplyDeleteah well
And here I was just thinking of suits of armor.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of my computers guts...
ReplyDeleteHardware: one half the blame team when your computer malfunctions.
ReplyDeleteHardware blames the software and vice versa.
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...that's because men have no consciences. (You knew i had to, didn't you?)
ReplyDeleteSauerkraut, as a man of the pre-cro-magnon sort, accountability rarely finds me.
ReplyDeleteDefense, on the other hand. Amoeba, are the other two Software and Pop-up?
Sauerkraut, you must be one of the more refined varieties.
It still is, by George.
Thom, as opposed to maul.
Actonbell, I expected you to go with the boring stuff that assembles shoes. Is there a feminine vice you lack besides run-on sentences?
Ariel, that was a clever pun!
TLP, some days you make restraint difficult.
Logo, be thankful. I learned to drive taking my dad to the emergency room during home-improvement projects. Eventually I learned to keep the car running. What I never realized until just now was that my dad's idea of home improvement was moving from a two-parent household to a one-parent household.
Quilly, that might be Strawberry Fife trying to come back, which I encourage.
Cooper, when I use a windows machine that's all I ever think about.
Well done, Jim.
Nessa, I suppose I would have if I had a conscience to nag me.
Firmware, Dawg. The Second Person is, of course, the Son, Bill Gates, while the Third is the Ghost In The Machine.
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