O x y m o r o n s
1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? 3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something […]
Chicken Surprise
A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the ‘Chicken Surprise’, the waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot. Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before the […]
“Bird watching”
The fellow sitting on the tailgate of his pickup truck never realized the show he was missing. (620 mm effective Focal Length) The little duck watches as the Eagle speeds straight at him at about 40 mph. (760 mm effective Focal Length) With perfect timing, the duck always dove and escaped with a mighty splash! […]
True Duck Story From San Antonio
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works downtown in a second story office building. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk. The mallard laid […]
