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Saturday, January 01, 2005

Short Shrift Sunday #8

I don't know if this is a hot tub for baby or mommy's lunch. One of those.

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Waxing lyrical:

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of the buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. It is the noxious seeper from your 16-year-old son in the back seat.

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Cousin Lucy has a raft of examples of mistakes Israeli high school students made on English matriculation exams, such as:

"You should be preparing the pizza as follows: Put the floud and water in the bowel and scrumble it with the spoon."

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My favorite word today is interim. Vb., 6 feet deep. Def.: What they do with 'arry when 'e dies in London.

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