Short Shrift Sunday #8

I published a post at 5:10 a.m. today. It is not here. Here is a reasonable facsimile:

This is either a hot tub for baby or Mommy's lunch. One of those.

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Waxing lyrical:

What is life? It is a 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 smell of a seeper from your 16-year-old son in the back seat.

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Lucy has at her site a whole raft 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 phrase today is speech impediment. Adj., mamma mia. Def.: When an Italian has one arm shorter than the other.