My father once quoted a riddle/joke: What are the worst two words your doctor can say when looking at your chart? “Uh-oh.”
Some of the best three-word expressions one can hear:
- I love you.
- Submit your invoice.
- Tests were negative.
- Beats my flush.
- That includes tip.
- Congratulations, Mr. Dad.
- Foot rub time.
- Rained out…Sleep.
- No, her brother. (Or: No, his sister.)
- Party of twelve?
- Godfather. AMC. Now.
- War is over.
- It’s on me.
- A flesh wound.
- Harvard welcomes you.
- Seltzer removes it.
- I respect you.
- That’s perfectly normal.
- Clocks turn back.
- This cashier open.
- Go deep…Break!
- No shots today.
- Transmission looks fine.
- Until September, everyone!
- It will pass.
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Anna
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Tim
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Chris Cantelmo
And it’s name is Asiago Plateau, in Italy. From a mountaintop, resident Vittorio Poli took this photo of his small town enveloped in fog. (See a bigger version at National Geographic.) Is that a waking dream or what?
“The Congregation’s action fell short of laicizing — commonly called defrocking — Harris, which would have totally stripped him of his priesthood and returned him to lay status…”
When it comes to any meteorological prescience the furry creature may possess, forget it: According to National Geographic, “the U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has estimated that…
The age of Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But adolescence a half-millennium ago ain’t what it is today.
As we wriggle and wiggle our way out of the recession, or the double recession, it’s worth remembering that this is a new reality (as is every day, for that matter). And though one can never truly know…
“I wish my eyelids made the Law & Order ‘DONK DONK’ sound when I blinked twice.”