We seldom find unfettered science:
It takes instructions from its clients.

Make a Gideon Bible with a flipbook on the bottom of some of its pages.

Today I faced a bottleneck on a crowded sidewalk, because one of my fellow citizens refused to walk to the right. “I always pass on the left,” he snarled, “I got a rule.”

truth thru hurt, hurt thru truth

Have pity on the cormorant —
He’d like to be a swan, but can’t.

On one of my visits to my family in Oklahoma, I took them some fresh bagels from NYC.  My father and sister refused them, because they weren’t soft and sweet. My father delivered a tirade against all chewy foods. My sister scornfully informed me that there was a company in Oklahoma called Entenmann’s, whose baked goods are “so soft.” My mother did eat one, but only after cutting it up and frying it in margarine. “That softens it up,” she explained.

internet/internment

a bell whose clapper is another bell

Perhaps we can find a way to use discarded electronics as fuel.  How satisfying it would be to open the hood of the vehicle, and shovel in unwanted phones and laptops!

 trail + map = trap

A knight can use a suit of armor,
But it’s not helpful to a farmer.

(Posted by Doug Skinner.  The sketch is by Giuseppe Novello.)