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Sunday Squibs

 



Everyone likes to feel a bit of a rebel, which explains the persistence of the Confederate flag. And those Minnesotans who root for the Packers. 


Trim was invented to cover mistakes. If the trim is also done wrong, it too can be trimmed with finer trim until the eye can no longer detect any flaws. 


Have a good store of big words in your vocabulary with which to lash your opponent. You’ll feel better and he won’t realize he’s been lambasted, excoriated, and keelhauled. 


Life is a puzzle. 

I am a piece,

Put in the wrong box. 

Good heavens, good grief!


The oracle says “Know thyself.” We must be PhD students of ourselves. But where can we find an advisor to keep our thesis on track?


Jesus tells us to take up our cross. Sinner that I am, I seek a balsa wood model. 


The old timer forgets why he entered the room. He decides to do something useful to redeem himself, but then leaves the room without doing it. 


Catholics sneer at the Buddhist belief in reincarnation. What is purgatory though but another name for reincarnation? 

Protestants sneer at the Catholic belief in purgatory. What is this life then but another name for purgatory?


Since no one writes letters

And mags are on-line available 

The carrier just brings us now pleas

For cash, charitable and political 


Self-improvement is like home improvement. Once you fix up one area, the rest of the place looks relatively shabby. 

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