A Call For Humor!

[Ropeburn]

 

[respice finem]

Many people don't realize that lots of Chinese restaurants have poetic sounding names. That reminds me of a book I read about Mao's Cultural Revolution - a restaurant named "The Fragrance of the Four Winds" was renamed something martial - "The Whiff of Gunpowder". "Plum Dragon Restaurant" was renamed "Serve the People". Of course I don't know the characters for "Hung Far Low" but in Cantonese it could be "Red Flower Man".

"Serve the people" - hopefully not Soylent Green

P.S. Ninja'd

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Rick63]

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Since retiring I do sleep almost as much as my cat, especially in the winter time.

 

[respice finem]

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Bonus: No full diaper in the morning

 

[Soandso]

 

[Member 90125]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[jkasch]

 

[jkasch]

 

[mhardy6647]

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In light of recent posts here - imagine what the world's gonna be like when the owls and the octopuses take over!

Meanwhile, in honor of the date, courtesy of The New Yorker.

 

[jkasch]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033845998443790676

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Member 90125]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[jkasch]

 

[jkasch]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033917019372880304

 

[Timcognito]

 

[Timcognito]

 

[Timcognito]

Back in 7th grade, I was living less than mile from a very nice low sloping beach at a time that coincided with the sport of surfing catching on in California. Being a good seaside swimmer and friends with the older sons of a grade school teaching mate of my mother’s (AKA the James Boys), I convinced my parents that with instruction I would and did become a surfer. In those days a “Dude”, a slightly pejorative tag that was associated with one with little or marginal skills in a vocation or pastime, was bestowed on and accepted by me. After what seemed like one hundred wipe outs, passage to 8th grade, a new Hobie surf board, introduction Vitamin M and whole batch of new Dudes, the title vanished. I look upon of the evolution of the moniker bestowed so often with affection to be kind of humorous coming from my experience, yet here we are with smaller boards and leaches carving radical cutbacks. So, you Dudes and Dudess’ can chime in the accuracy of this map if you live somewhere in the US. Dude is definitely big in “Cali”.