Plat du jour

Just think of the possible jokes

Cash-Strapped Bronx Zoo Lays off Animals

A moose, a bear, and an elephant walk into an unemployment office...

Misspelling of the day

I-Oda

Plat du jour

The really interesting thing about this plate was the URL on the truck it was on:

Headline win

Colo. man convicted of murdering transgender woman
Yes, Angie Zapata was a woman.

Another reason not to go bra-less

Detroit woman's underwire bra deflects bullet

Living with wild hogs

Florida:Woman attacked by 200-pound wild hog in her yard

Headline fail

4 new ancient Egypt temples discovered in Sinai

Plat du jour

This is one way to remember a date. I'm guessing it's someone's anniversary.

Weekly free associations

1. Lease :: Rent


2. Dead :: Grateful


3. Removed :: Taken


4. Broke :: Busted


5. Lips :: Restaurant


6. Flight :: Time


7. Three hours :: Give or take


8. Give :: Take


9. Technical :: Difficulties


10. Hurry :: Up

HT to Unconscious Mutterings.

Plat du jour

CU L8R 2. (They spell funny in NJ.)

Semi-random thoughts

● I wish the media would stop romanticizing the Somali hijackers by calling them pirates. They are just organized crime at sea.

● Last week one of my friends said on Facebook that she

found out this afternoon that her lunchtime Monday meeting in Addis Ababa has been shifted to Brussels, which is much more convenient.

Some people live a lot more interesting lives than I do.

● I saw an ad for a new reality TV show "The Cougar" in the subway. It said something like "One older woman, 20 younger men." Well, to my 60-year-old eyes, she looks just about as young as the guys.

● There's an old joke that Washington was "First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League." This goes back to the days before they divided the baseball major leagues into divisions, and when Washington D.C. had the Senators as its team. Today Washington has the Nationals, and they're in the National League. But they're still last, with the worst record of any team there. The worst in the American League (so far) is my Cleveland Indians.

● Friday night I saw a production of Tartuffe with my wife, where the title character, a falsely pious charlatan, had his servant cover up the parts of tapestries showing people is various states of undress.

I was amused to realize that the theatre was just a few dozen yards from the one where I was on Wednesday, where I saw a burlesque show where all the performers (well, the female ones), got completely undressed.