Blog #475                                April 16, 2026

 

Have you ever gone into a car dealer and bought the first car the salesman showed you?  Well, that’s how my wife feels when the hostess leads us to a table at a restaurant.  It’s obviously the worst table, the one they want to fill because it is somehow flawed, and the hostess must think we are ignorant losers who will accept a horrible table.  Therefore, the first table offered is never acceptable.  Never!  I hope they have round tables in Heaven, because, if not, she’s going somewhere else.

 

Last weekend, we had finished dinner (at the second table they offered us) and it was time to pay the bill.  There were five people and coupons for two free entrees and the ensuing confusion of how to allocate the free entrees reached Carol’s Threshold of Impatience, which, I don’t have to tell you, is about the size of a cricket’s eyebrow.  I could feel the Earth tremble as I looked at her.  “I just wish I were the Dictator and I could tell everybody how to do this,” she whispered through clenched, but beautifully white, teeth.  “What do you want to have happen?” I asked.  She told me and I immediately took control, exerted my dominant masculinity and did exactly as my wife told me.  I just need a little direction sometimes.

 

Hi there and welcome back.  I hope you’re feeling well.  Have you done your taxes yet?  They were due yesterday, I think.  Well, not always, because if April 15^th is Sunday, then the due date will be pushed to Monday, April 16^th.  But wait, April 16^th is Emancipation Day.  Emancipation Day celebrates the day when Lincoln freed 3,100 slaves living in the District of Columbia.  Remember Lincoln?  He’s on the penny.  Remember the penny?  All the Federal workers in DC are off on Emancipation Day.  So, I guess your taxes could be due on the 17th.  No, no, hold on – the 17th is National Bat Appreciation Day (look it up!), and no-one’s going to leave their house on a day like that.  So I guess it’s the 18th, except that is National Animal Crackers Day, and no-one who celebrated Emancipation Day is going to file their taxes on a day dedicated to Crackers.  Well, shoot!  Don’t file your taxes at all.  Nobody cares about your damn taxes anyway.  Certainly not your politicians.

 

Message from Shakespeare, the three-legged cat: “O excellent! I love long life better than figs” (Antony and Cleopatra).  I don’t know what taxes are.  I don’t even know what money is.  I just know I have food and water and a warm lap to sit on.  And my wonderful Pops.  Life is really good.  Purr.

 

You know, of course, that I don’t drink.  But that doesn’t prevent me from challenging you with a compendium of some rock n roll lyrics about alcoholic beverages.  You like quizzes, don’t you?  Humor me.  My mind is still a little fuzzy, and I have to fill this blog up.  Here are the questions.  Remember, the songs are about alcohol.  Answers later.

 

1.     Who lost his jigger of salt?

2.     Where did the Captain say they hadn’t had those spirits here since 1969?

3.     Good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye, but what were they singing?

4.     When the microphone smelled like a beer, what did the piano sound like?

5.     I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis.

 

Weekly Word:  A compendium is a collection of detailed information about a particular subject.  In this case, boozy rock n roll.

 

I don’t know what else to talk about today.  Maybe some new crazy idea I have or maybe something that makes me angry.  Let’s try both.  Here’s the new idea.  It’s for you ladies out there, and I like it a lot.  Wardrobe History Tags.  Attached to the hanger holding that cute little black dress will hang one of my Wardrobe History Tags, a small, round, smart, voice-analytic device.  We’ll call her Dressy.  When you pick out what you’re wearing tonight, just press the button and say, “Dressy, I’m going to Tony’s tonight with Fred and Ethel.”  Dressy will respond, “Hello, Carol.  You wore this dress to Tony’s last November, but you’ve never worn it with Fred and Ethel.  It’s ok to wear it tonight.  Try those little black boots with the silver buckles.  The pink nail-polish will look fabulous!”

 

And what makes me angry?  Silly political correctness.  Now they’re even changing the Bible.  Yes, the Catholic bishops have come out with a revised Bible which has replaced “booty” with “treasure” and “fine flour” with “bran flour” and God knows (appropriately) what else.  Of course, the Reform Rabbis have already changed the Torah to expunge any reference to God as a man by changing Father to Parent and King to Ruler to avoid bruising any tender feelings.  It’s all very politically correct.  Re-write The Bible to avoid all references to gender, harmful foods, sexual preference or non-efficient light bulbs.

 

The words of the Bible are pleasant

But they must be brought to the present

So now what is right

Is “Let There Be Light

“As Long As It’s Not Incandescent”

 

Be fruitful and use Common Core.  And who knows what they’re going to do with My Cup Runneth Over.  I think that’s the name of Stormy Daniels’ new book.  (Ok, I’m not proud of that.)

 

And here’s another thing.  I have always wondered why, in a movie, they have to show the actors smoking.  Yes, we all did it back in the 50s and 60s, but the story would not be changed if we eliminated the smoking, would it?  I mean, he didn’t burn the girl to death with his cigarette butt.  And don’t give me the argument about historical accuracy.  That didn’t seem to bother anybody when the show Hamilton made George Washington black.

 

It’s time to leave now.  Here are your answers to the alcoholic questions:

 

1.     Jimmy Buffet – Margaritaville

2.     Hotel California.  (Eagles)

3.     Bye Bye Miss American Pie.  (Don McLean).

4.     A carnival.  (Piano Man, Billy Joel)

5.     Honky Tonk Woman. (Rolling Stones)

 

I hope you enjoyed today’s issue, kind of a hodge-podge of weirdness, like it always is, and I hope you have a lovely week.  Stay well, count your blessings and be back next Thursday.  I’ll be there.

 

Michael                                    Send comments to mfox1746@gmail.com

 

 

Blog #474                                April 9, 2026

 

After my appendix operation, I eschewed the rehab phase.  I remember my first day of cardiac rehab after my heart attack years ago, walking in there knowing I would hate it.  I was right.  Some nurse, who was so sweet, bees were nesting in her hair, greeted me and made me fill out a whole bunch of questionnaires that no-one would ever read.  Then the doctor came in, listened to my heart for four seconds and left.  He had the charisma of tuna salad.  But, ok, I can deal with officious nurses and supernumerary doctors.

 

What I could not deal with were the other patients.  There were about twenty of them exercising on treadmills and bicycle machines.  Two of them were younger than me, twelve older and six were dead, but their machines hadn’t stopped yet.  And they all had little pink hearts with their names in crayon taped to their machines.  Gag me!  And they were all looking at me.  New meat!  I had to walk for six minutes as fast as I could on the carpet surrounding all these old cardiac-challenged strangers.  This is not me!  I do not like strangers; I do not want to talk with them; I do not want them watching me; and I assuredly do not want my name on a little pink heart.  I felt like a heifer at a beef auction.

 

Ok, I’m tired of talking of my recovery.  Carol’s tired of it; Shakespeare’s tired of it and so are you.

 

Message from Shakespeare:  I love you more than words can wield the matter (King Lear).  I kind of like that Pops is home all day, sitting in a chair where I can schnuggle on his lap for a long time.  Purr.

 

Last Saturday, I went out for the first time, just a local sports bar with some friends.  It was the night before Easter and the middle of Passover.  I guess I forgot last week to wish you a Happy Passover and Happy Easter, but I trust that while you were dealing with God in one way or another, you remembered to thank Him for all your blessings.

 

This restaurant we went to was a sports bar, and on every other screen was the UConn-Illinois basketball game as part of March Madness.  But, being the Passover season, the other screens ran The Ten Commandments with Charleton Heston.  I thought that was pretty strange, but never would I let a weird juxtaposition escape me:

 

On the left was the basketball news

We were sad to see Illinois lose

On the right we could see

God part the Red Sea

And an underdog win for the Jews.

 

Hi there and welcome back.  I hope you all are feeling well.  Aren’ you excited about our astronauts flying to the moon?  It’s very spectacular.  I think Trump has plans to build a fancy new restaurant on the Moon. I don’t think it will work – great food, no atmosphere.

 

Last week, I told you that I was not a highbrow, didn’t love the symphony or opera.  “Call me a boor, call me Ishmael”, I wrote.  Several friends commented that I couldn’t be a boor and still quote “Call me Ishmael”, the opening line of Moby Dick.  In high school, I got a D in Miss Bowers’ English class because of Moby Dick.  It was the only D that I ever received.  As a Freshman in college, I got an A+ in English Literature.  I took the grade report back to Miss Bowers just to show her how wrong she had been.  She had forgotten who I was.  Did you know that Starbucks was named after a character in Moby Dick?  I have now read Moby Dick seven times.  Call me Ridiculous!

 

I went to a funeral recently.  As Yogi Berra said, “always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.”  At the funeral I ran into a woman I have not seen for many years.  With all my medical history, I guess she was surprised to see me looking ok.  She told me I looked magnificent.  Magnificent!  Can you imagine?  I was really flattered.  Do you think she was hitting on me?  I think she was hitting on me.

 

At funerals, when I hear everyone speak about how terrific the deceased was, I often wonder what people will say about me.  How will I be perceived and remembered?  I’d like to be there.  Come to think of it, I guess I will be.  It would be nice if people would stand up and say nice things about me.  Let’s start with the lady who thinks I’m magnificent.

 

There is actually one thing at which I am really good.  I’ll give you a few seconds to come up with it.  Ok, I’ll give you a few more seconds.  I’d better give you a hint – I can name any song from the 1950s, 60s and 70s before the second note.  Just play one note and I’m screaming Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs or Little Anthony and the Imperials.  I’m almost never wrong, and it used to be an important talent to have.  But no more.  Carol found Shazam!  She holds her iPhone to the radio and Shazam tells her the song and artist and even downloads it if she wants.  So much for my only talent!  I’m useless!  I feel like a snake trying to ride a bicycle.  Or a guy who is fluent in Aztec.  Or a man who repairs typewriters.  Or Donald Trump’s humility coach.  I am no longer needed.  I cannot compete.

 

Maybe I can compete in Weekly Words.  Today’s is supernumerary, which means something that is present in excess of normal numbers.  Like most of the words in my blog.

 

In conclusion, President Trump and I have something in common.  We were both born in 1946, as were President Clinton and President George W. Bush.  It seems I may be the only man born in 1946 who wasn’t elected President.  Well, there’s still a chance.  What it means is President Trump and I grew up to the same music – Rock ‘n Roll.  And I know his favorite song.  It’s the old Beach Boys classic –Bomb–Bomb–Bomb, Bomb–Bomb-Iran

Bomb–Bomb–Bomb, Bomb–Bomb-Iran.

 

Stay well, count your blessings and pray for peace.

 

Michael                          Send comments to mfox1746@gmail.com

 

Blog 473                                          April 2, 2026

 

Hey, I have a question for you.  Do you lie?  Of course you don’t.  I would never suggest that you lie.  But do you exaggerate – maybe a little?  I have made a study of the most common topics of exaggeration.

 

First Exaggeration: Have you seen my grandson hit a golf ball?  Yesterday, on the 11^th hole, my Jacob hit a ball, I guarantee it was 300 yards if it was a nickel.

Truth:  Jacob is seven and the farthest he has ever hit a ball is 42 yards – into a hot-dog cart.

 

Second Exaggeration:  My daughter’s boyfriend just got a new job.  He’s the CFO of a new start-up that’s all over the world.  I can’t tell you exactly what they do, but they’re huge.  He’s doing very well. 

Truth:  He quit his job as a Bar-Mitzvah disc jockey and is selling a line of pizza ovens in Rapid City.

 

Third Exaggeration:  I’m going to a new neurologist.  He’s one of the top doctors.  Top!  He’s the foremost expert in the world on the kind of disease I have.  He graduated first in his class.

Truth:  Dr. Patel Rajmiri was the only one in his class at the Karachi School of Incantations and Pita Making.  His office is in the back of a Lebanese deli.

 

Fourth Exaggeration: I’ve got a great new sleeping thing for you.  You place a pecan under your pillow.  It works great.

Truth: I haven’t slept since the Bush administration.  No, the old one.  And I have tried every pill, powder, lotion, potion, salve, inhaler, concoction and Haitian Voodoo ritual known to man or beast.  The pecan doesn’t work either.

 

You absolutely know someone who is guilty of one or all of the above. Maybe even you.  Hi there and welcome back to Limerick Oyster where nobody’s going to lie to you.  A little capricious hyberbole perhaps, but it’s all in fun.  I hope you’re well and I’m glad you’re back.  I’m back too, recovering from my surgery.  I thought Shakespeare would have been more enthusiastic to see me, but he was a little leery of the walker.  At first, he thought it was his AI replacement, Cat-GPT, but now I think he likes it.

 

Message from Shakespeare:  Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again (King John).  I’m so happy Pops is home.  He even brought me a new friend.  It has two legs and two wheels.  I call him Rolleo.  Where’d he go?  Rolleo, Rolleo, whereart thou.  Purr.

 

I still have a few hospital observations for you.  I did not see a calendar in my room.  A clock, yes, but no calendar.  Even a prisoner gets a calendar.  Are they afraid you’ll be counting the days until your co-pay runs out?  I also noticed that when the Physical Therapist person would take me on a walk, we would never pass a mirror.  Oy, God forbid I should see myself unshaven, hair unwashed; I probably looked like Quasimodo.

 

But now I’m home:

 

·        Without one appendix.  I never read the appendix anyway.

·        With some additional scars.  No big deal; I’ve got plenty.

·        With an addition of approximately 75 new members to the once-exclusive club of people who have seen my butt.

Who designed those hospital gowns?  And why is just your butt exposed?  Expose everything.  There is no privacy in a hospital.  I loved it when the nurse team would come in and ask whether I wanted the door closed while 60 people examined my naked body.

 

Yes, I’m home, and very lucky to have a lovely, caring and efficient nurse to take care of me.  Carol is doing a wonderful job, doing almost everything for me, but sometimes, it’s a little aggravating.

 

Where’s your toothbrush, she asked.  I told her.

What kind of ratty, gangrenous, antediluvian piece of garbage is this?  She threw it away and got a new one.

Ok, where’s your toothpaste?  I pointed.

What kind of arboreal moron keeps his toothpaste in a drawer that far away from his toothbrush?

 

There’s no place like home!  Let’s do arboreal as our Weekly Word.  It means living in trees.

 

I have admitted many of my faults and failings to you over the past years.  Here’s another.  I’m just not into highbrow stuff -- art, symphony, opera.  I must not have been around when they handed out the gene for high-class sophistication and good taste.  Except, of course, my taste in women.  But you know that already.

 

I like realism in art, but not Modern art.  I was once in a museum in Bentonville, Arkansas looking at a painting that was completely black.  I found a nearby docent and asked, “Can you explain to me what there is in that painting that is supposed to stimulate my admiration?”  He replied, “Damned if I know.”  And the symphony?  I like some classical music, but I must admit I grew up on three-minute songs that started with Take out the papers and the trash or I heard about the fella you been dancin’ with.  Three minutes is a good length for a song.  Twenty minutes or sixty minutes – I’ve already forgotten where I am.  And opera is four hours!  In Italian!

 

I guess that I’m just not aesthetic

I think modern art is pathetic

And Mozart and Bach

Are pretty much schlock

And opera requires anesthetic.

 

What can I say?  Call me a boor, call me low-class, call me Ishmael.  And anyway, should I care what other people think?  You’ll worry less about what people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

 

By the way, those two songs I mentioned above:

 

Take out the papers and the trash – Yakety Yak, The Coasters (1958) written by Leiber and Stoller. 

 

 I heard about the fella you been dancin’ with - Shake a Tail Feather, The Five Du-Tones (1963) written by Andre Williams.

 

I have to stop now.  I can’t write while I’m shakin’ my tail feather.  Plus, my doctor says I shouldn’t.  I love that song, though.  C’mon, do it with me – shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it Baby.  You can still do it.  Don’t hurt yourself.  See you next week.  Stay well, count your blessings and Rock n Roll.  And thank you all for your wonderful outpourings of love and concern.  They mean a lot.

 

Michael                                    Send comments to mfox1746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

LIMERICK    OYSTER

Blog # 472                               March 26, 2026

 

My oh my, what a week.  A couple of weeks ago, I made you wait for a blog because I was travelling on a cruise.   You were patient.  Then last week, I made you wait for 36 hours because I was in the hospital having my innards deconstructed (a cooking term.)  You were completely understanding and effervescent with your prayers and wishes.  Thank you so much.

 

But now, I hear you scream, get over that health thing, put on some big-boy pants and do the thing you’re supposed to be doing.  Make us laugh.  Your High School Quip was Punctuality is the Politeness of Kings.  But where are you now?  Ok, chill out!

 

It all started over the weekend with some abdominal pains (belly aches for those of you who thought Dr. Zorba was a real doctor.)  When the pains reached the level of HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT, I called 9-11.  You realize, of course, that for a man to submit to the stigma and hand-wrenching ignominy of absolute surrender to the Gods of Mortality, well, it’s humiliating and completely frightening.  Hey, at least they didn’t chop out all my big words.

 

Word of the Week:  Stigma: A mark of disgrace .

 

Hi there and welcome back.  I hope you’re feeling well, even if I’m not.  It’s a lovely spring day here in St. Louis, perfect for sitting in the ICU.

Let me start by making it clear that every hospital worker I came in contact with; from those two wonderful Ambulance drivers who chauffered me and to all the nurses in Missouri Baptist Hospital– every one was professional, warm, caring, concerned, and I am loyally indebted to them.

 

 

 

The operation started out as a routine appendectomy – a little laparoscopic slice, clip, snip, bye-bye.  The surgeon quickly discovered That Plan A was not going to work, so they opened me up like Grannie’s turkey and started looking for the gizzards.  They removed the appendix and a couple of small pieces of colon.  And here I am, recovering.  But am I just sitting around and moaning and complaining; do I demand attention and complete servitude?  No, I can do that at home.  No, what I do is observe.

 

Observation #1: They wanted to see if my stomach could hold any food and they brought me a platter of scraps.   They actually expect me to make a poop out of this?  You could throw in a pair Lizzo’s boots on top, and it still wouldn’t have made a meal.

 

Observation #2:  Being under anesthesia can whack you out!  For days after surgery, I had strange hallucinations and dreams that were pretty realistic.  One reminded me of a time we were visiting friends in Florida, and one night ten of us were sitting in a rented condo with an unfamiliar TV and two remotes.  The ensuing hour was funny enough to be its own sit-com.  We’ll call it My Friend Clicka or something.  Can you just imagine ten old people trying to figure out something that the best Japanese engineers have devoted their entire careers to making complicated?  It is their revenge for Hiroshima, you know.  What goes around comes around.  “You vaporized two of our cities, so now each year we’ll cause 50,000 of you to die of apoplexy trying to record Jeopardy and Dancing with the Stars while watching The View all at the same time.”  At one point we actually got a Saudi Arabian sit-com on the TV.  It was called Oil in the Family. 

 

Observation #3:  I have uncountable tubes in me to make sure nothing gets in or out unmeasured.  No food or liquid by mouth; that goes directly through a tube into the stomach.  Oxygen goes into my nose.  Fluid from my abdominal cavity drains out into something or other.  And then there was another tube; It looked sinister, a long slimy gray wormish thing.  I inquired.

 

                                      I see those big tubes over there

                                      They’re for food and for water and air.

                                      But that thin, snakey one

                                      Doesn’t look like much fun?

                                      You’re going to slide that thing where?

 

Message From Shakespeare, the Three-legged cat:  I miss you more than words can wield the matter (Richard III).  Where’s my Pops?  He’s been gone for days and days.  Moms takes care of me, but I miss my Pops so much.  Please come home soon.  Purr.

 

Observation #4:   As I have said, the staff is just wonderful, but there is so much activity and personnel and equipment and wires and paperwork – it’s an unwieldy monstrous, megalithic maelstrom just begging for someone to whip the whole thing into an efficient speed demon.  Enter my wife.  I can see it now, Opening Soon the new efficiency wing of Missouri Pabtist Hospitals where you can have both hips replaced while getting a manicure and be out in day; where you can have a full-term baby in six months.  Where you can buy your hospital gowns online beforehand.  And what do you think they’ll call this new wing?  The Sisters of Lickety Spit.

 

Carol has already contracted with designer hospital gown makers.  You’ll love them, Darling.

 

·       Oscar de la Tenta                 Bill Ass

·       Hugo Crack                          Christian Back Door

 

Observation #4:  I have given specific instructions to the nurses that during our short walks, we must not pass a mirror or anything that looks like one.  I’ve been nine days in the hospital.  Nine days so far in hospital.  But I’m doing well, and I cannot exaggerate my love and warmth for all of you who have reached out.   Stay well ya’ll and count your blessings.

 

Michael                                  Send comments to mfox1746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

Blog # 470                               March 12, 2026

 

I received a Saliva Collection Kit ordered by Dr. Heart to check my DNA for some genetic something-or-other.  I had to spit into a tube, seal it, place the tube in an enclosed bag, label it and send it to San Francisco.  Most Major League Baseball players are proud if they can disgustingly expectorate three or four feet from their dugout.  My spit is going all the way to San Francisco.

 

The directions to this high-tech exercise were slightly longer than War and Peace and were repeated in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish.  I guess if you don’t speak one of those, you’re out of luck.

 

Enclosed is your personal kit

Please send your saliva in it

Except if you speak

Either Polish or Greek

Then, Brother, you ain’t worth a spit.

 

Hi there and welcome back to my world of humor, stories and, at least today, spit.  I hope you’re feeling well and not angry with me for being a day late last week.  Carol and I were on a cruise ship.  It was a lovely vacation with many good friends and new friends.  The one disappointment was that the G’s, who were supposed to join us, could not.  Besides greatly missing their company, we had to rearrange a car trip to the docks in Miami, another from the docks to Naples, Florida, a place to stay for two nights and a subsequent ride to the airport.  But here was the silver lining.  All our friends aboard jumped right in to fill the gaps.  I will not mention all your names, but thank you for the many, many offers of lodging and transportation.  It was a heart-warming display of loyalty and friendship that I truly appreciate.

 

The ship (not boat) on which we cruised was the Wonder of the Seas, and it was the size of Luxembourg, only taller.  To get from your cabin (not room) to the dining area, you had to take an Uber.  It had 18 decks (not floors) and included every diversion, restaurant and entertainment you could imagine and many you couldn’t imagine.  We had a great time, but I just have to mention something, and I know you will agree.  I’m going to have a little talk with God here.  Bear with me.  God, I know You’re omnipotent and omni-everything-else, but You need to create an 11^th Commandment, and I have humbly written it out for You.  It should read: Thou shalt not enter an elevator until the people on it have exited.

 

We would be in a packed elevator and when the doors opened, twelve basketball players, their wives and 42 children started pushing their way in without letting us out.  I’m sure it has happened to you.

 

Want a quiz?  I know you love quizzes.  This one is about State names.  If you remove all the vowels, Mississippi would become MSSSSPP and Colorado would become CLRD.  Here are the names of four states with all the vowels removed:  HW – TH – DH – H.  What are those four states?  Answers later.

 

Things end.  Empires end, love affairs end, Breaking Bad ended, even microwaves end.  Ours ended.  More than that, it committed suicide in a pyrotechnic flash worthy of the Olympic Opening Ceremony.  So, we measured the space and measured again and took our measurements to Best Buy, where we purchased a new microwave that was sure to fit.  We measured, didn’t we?  Any three-year-old baboon can use a tape measure, so it goes to reason that two graduates of Washington University in St. Louis, one with a major in education and the other in mathematics, can be counted upon to use a stupid damned tape measure!  We brought it home and it fit into the opening perfectly.  We were proud.  So, we re-attached the metallic molding around the opening and guess what?

 

I know you can guess what happened.  I know for two reasons.  One, it’s probably happened to you before and two, you know how useless I am with intricately difficult machinery like a cloth tape measure.  The actual microwave door was too big to fit through the opening in the molding and we took it back.  We now have Frequent Microwave Mileage at Best Buy.  But every cloud has something or other and Microwave 2.0, though a little small, opens, heats and beeps.  It only took a month.  Where was I when they handed out the Competency Gene?  Probably reciting The Raven.

 

I need a fairy tale to cheer me up.  Once upon a time, in the mythical kingdom of Chesterfield, lived a beautiful Queen named Goldifox.  One night, Goldifox went to an enchanted restaurant, named The Enchanted Restaurant, accompanied by her stalwart protector, Jewishhusband.  When they arrived, the Wicked Witch of the Restaurant seated them at a table.  “This table’s too big,” cried Goldifox, and the witch moved them to a different table.  “This table’s too square,” moaned the Queen.  Suddenly Goldifox spotted her friend, Susie Bayer, standing with her husband, also named Jewishhusband, and their son Yogi.  And Goldifox and the three Bayers found a perfect round table and ate happily ever after.  Sound familiar?

 

Here are the state answers:  HW=Hawaii, TH=Utah, DH=Idaho, H=Ohio.  I know you got them all right.

 

Message from Shakespeare: ‘War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.’ (Julius Caesar).  I’m sad we have a war with Iran.  I have friends who are Persian pussycats.  One is named Mew-hammad.  Purr.  Or should I say Purrsian?

 

I don’t want to get political, but I feel I should say something about the war.  Now I’m not the smartest person in the world, nor am I a naif, but it seems to me that we have been in a tacit war with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran for decades, and learning Esperanto, building windmills and serving sugar-free donuts at the United Nations Breakfast for Peace will not be enough to keep us and the rest of the world safe. 

 

But I want you to be safe, and to stay well and to count your blessings.  Do all that and come back next week.  Remember when I said Things end?  Well, even this wordy schmatta has ended.  Bye!

 

Jewishhusband                         Send comments to mfox1746@gmail.com

 

Oops, the Weekly Word.  A naif is a naive person.