"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"to talk of many things,
of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
of cabbages and kings,
and why the sea is boiling hot,
and whether pigs have wings"
and Kelly's got her surgery date,
and that is why she sings!

Apologies to Lewis Carroll

The mirror crack'd from side to side,
"My curse has come upon me" cried,
The Lady of Shallott!

Just have one of the local kids pull your finger, it always worked for my dad!

 

Google "TED hose".

HTH, Phred

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp!

Veni, vidi, flati.

Sounds like a case of "Chacun a son gout".

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"to talk of many things,
of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
of cabbages and kings,
and why the sea is boiling hot,
and whether pigs have wings"
and AppyGrl's got her surgery date,
and that is why she sings!

Apologies to Lewis Carroll

For the loved ones now gone—yours and mine—
And the friends that we've lost, we repine.
Let us lift our champagne,
And sing out a refrain,
Of that bittersweet song, "Auld Lang Syne."

And, as Robert Louis Stevenson said in passing -----

 

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig my grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I lay me down with a will.

This be the verse that you grave for me,
Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Veni, vidi, flati!

The mirror crack'd from side to side,
"My curse has come upon me" cried,
The Lady of Shallott!

Alfred Lord Tennyson