Joseph Nebus's Sense Of Humor
Omitted for clarity: the letters that got rained on because it was a little wet today.
Source: The Big Rich: The Rise And Fall Of The Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, Bryan Burrough.
Also, while I do not remember this at all, Wikipedia claims this wa the plot of a 1987-season episode:
George discovers that he has become stressed out lately due to his teeth, so his dentist creates special false teeth to relax him—but end up stressing him out even more.
I assume the episode guide writer is being wry.
Star Trek: Discovery not included because I’ve been avoiding spoilers including episode title lists so la la la la do not tell me I can not hear you la la la.
| Character | Title Appearances |
|---|---|
| Q | 6 |
| Data | 4 |
| Mudd | 3 |
| Bashir | 2 |
| Spock | 2 |
| Dax | 1 |
| Khan | 1 |
| Quark | 1 |
| Sarek | 1 |
| Troi | 1 |
| Archer | 0 |
| Beverley Crusher | 0 |
| Chakotay | 0 |
| Chapel | 0 |
| Chekov | 0 |
| Guinan | 0 |
| Janeway | 0 |
| Kes | 0 |
| Kim | 0 |
| Kira | 0 |
| Kirk | 0 |
| LaForge | 0 |
| Mayweather | 0 |
| McCoy | 0 |
| Neelix | 0 |
| O’Brien | 0 |
| Odo | 0 |
| Paris | 0 |
| Phlox | 0 |
| Picard | 0 |
| Pulaski | 0 |
| Rand | 0 |
| Reed | 0 |
| Riker | 0 |
| Sato | 0 |
| Scott | 0 |
| Seven | 0 |
| Sisko | 0 |
| Sulu | 0 |
| T’Pol | 0 |
| Torres | 0 |
| Tucker | 0 |
| Tuvok | 0 |
| Uhura | 0 |
| Wesley Crusher | 0 |
| Worf | 0 |
| Yar | 0 |
No, neither Mayweather nor Chakotay were actually significant characters. They are included to be nice.
Oh! But a slant rhyme, I bet that’s exactly what we need!
The index fell five points today as everyone reviewed the list above and held their breath.
I certainly hope this clears up some things!
The index rose four points, no thanks to Lisa who’s still walking around and mentioning stuff about “deal memos” just loudly enough that everybody knows what she thinks she’s doing. We’re not taking her bait on the intimations of some kind of Dutch TV producers being involved either.
The index dropped three points today, owing to traders getting all sulky when I told them that while I appreciated their idea about an imaginary HGTV show talled Tiny McMansions, there was no way I could build that up to one of my big-size weekly essays and I wasn’t going to try. Lisa went off fuming and saying she was going to put together a pilot episode.
| Day | Felt Like |
|---|---|
| Sunday | Sunday |
| Monday | Monday |
| Tuesday | Weeping |
| Wednesday | Thursday |
| Thursday | Friday |
| Friday | A Pillow Full Of Bunny Kisses |
| Saturday | Take-Out From The Chinese Place With The Fake Vegetarian Chicken So Good You Kind Of Don’t Want To Check If It’s Real Chicken And They’re Just Lying |
The index rose another sixteen points as investors decided that the week has just gone that well, what with having the gridiron thing explained and how the water bill turned out to be just exactly what everyone figured so they don’t have to worry about it being too high or suspiciously low.
To give some balance. You know.
The index dropped three points and we’ve maybe beaten the whole Belgian cricket diet bubble by asking the Another Blog, Meanwhile trading floor to try eating some. It’s a small measure but hey, every little bit helps.
The index dropped sixteen points today in trading that could be called “lower”, or also “dramatically lower”, but to be honest who can focus on something like that anymore?
The index continued its slide today, falling another 22 points despite attempts to rally traders behind the news that the 1st of July is less likely to be a Saturday (or Thursday) than it is any other day of the week and therefore shouldn’t they feel special that they got to see one like this? There won’t be another one like it until 2023, after all. This did nothing to help.
OK, that last one doesn’t make sense but I had the word left over and it seemed like cheating not to use it.
The index dropped twelve points which was so much of a relief that it jumped back up another six points again, and then slacked off two points since it was so close to the end of the day.
This. This is the sort of thing that happens when you let me put on the crazy grab bag of stuff that I call music. I get to listening to the Devo album I bought because I figured I liked that one song so why not? Also, you know, stringing out words into alphabetical order like this produces a bunch of interesting other word blocks. Yes, I am thinking particularly of the one that starts “do evolving from glue go God”. But really isn’t the most startling thing about this the discovery that “Are We Not Men?” is not in fact more than fifty percent of the song? No, it is not. Next week: They Might Be Giants’ “Particle Man” unless I get a better offer or maybe consider Sparks’s “Let The Monkey Drive”. also I know what you’re thinking and that strand is ‘now okay pool our pinheads’. Not ‘poot’.
The index rose two points today after investors noticed on reuters.com a commodities listing for some kind of sale of Palladium, which is the sort of thing that it seems like they should be tracking, even though if they’re reading the listing right it didn’t rise or fall or anything and just kind of filled up space.
The index rose four points today as traders got caught up on watching Conan O’Brien on the DVR.
| Day | Event |
|---|---|
| Sunday | Little nagging sensation that I’m coughing a bit more than normal and feel all achy and hot. |
| Monday | I hear nothing after 11:18 am because of my uninterrupted coughing fit |
| Tuesday | Temporary suspension of the tooth-brushing routine because the sudden spasms from my lungs and the toothpaste foam and the irritation in my throat lining create such a bad situation, such a bad situation. |
| Wednesday | Boss excuses me from the planned two-hour conference call with a promise that he’d call back and catch me up and wrap up some loose ends, which he has yet to do. |
| Thursday | Broke the key by trying to wind up the clock and I coughed at the wrong moment and do you know how many different size keys there are for mantle clocks? There’s easily more than six. |
| Friday | Sleep is a lie, a distant faded memory never to be attained again in my life. |
| Saturday | Oh, that’s a good bit better actually. |
The index dropped eight points as investors’ attention was captured by rumors the bagel place had the tomato tortellini soup today and what implications this might have for the flavored cream cheese they’re offering for bagels.
