March '06 Pot Poury and Haints Excuse
This is more like it. North Myrtle Beach is more to my liking. I don't really interact with local folks more than to take care of the daily necessities, so it's not that I find more to do here than I did in that other country six miles down the road, I just don't find the local ambiance distasteful--- less pseudo exclusivism, whatever that is. The signs on the beach say please, generous serving of porta potties, much appreciated by my old bladder dealing with several cups of coffee. I like to be walking on the beach when the sun comes up, so it's still dark when I start out. Before, I almost never met anyone else that early, but here I usually see several local yokels striding along at a healthy pace. Well, I assume they are local yokels since that early I can see only dark humanoid shapes, so I suppose they could be aliens. Whatever. They seem to be harmless, and I seem to be settled in quite contentedly.
Well I am working on it, but I haven't finished part 2 of Haints yet. The fact that there probably is not a cloud of bait breath drifting around my site, does not mean my Super Ego (we still have one of those, don't we?) is not on my case to get on with it. Along with several million other writers I do believe that I have some worthwhile things to say. So I will speak to a couple of inconsequentials as a token contribution. When I use terminology such as Jim's Unified Field Theory of Banana Noticing, there is of course the obvious observation that I am just trying to be cute. Beyond that I think it is a bit disingenuous of authors to claim ownership of particular terminology as though it were some unique, private linguistic and conceptual breakthrough to be copyrighted and guarded zealously. What they typically have is something Pete Ossorio (the brightest professor I ever had) called a mock distinctive descriptive system. One, I think a final, absolute distinctive descriptive view of the universe does not, can not, exist. Two, my goal is not to convince people of what I think but to encourage/demand that they think for themselves (their qualifications to do so are not an issue here). Two other reasons for my approach are that I don't have anything to sell, and I am not seeking converts. [I find the prospect of groupies hanging on to my coattails appalling.]
GronerPuns
Rich miscreant in southern California captured a pair of very rare dolphins. His plan was to breed them and sell the offspring on the black market. Initially disappointed that they didn't get on with it, he eventually discovered that their breeding season was stimulated when they ate equally rare gulls who paused in their migration just off the northern Washington coast. He drove up to the Washington coast and succeeded in trapping a few of the gulls. He caged them in his trunk and started back home.
Meanwhile, there was a mild earthquake near the San Diego zoo that caused a few of the cage doors to pop open. One of the animals that escaped was a lion. As bad luck would have it, the lion ran across the highway just as our miscreant was passing by and he ran over the lion. Unknown to the miscreant the collision caused the trunk to open. While documenting the accident the State Trooper happened to look in the trunk. He immediately approached the driver and said "Sir, I am placing you under arrest". "What for" our driver said. The trooper replied "Transporting gulls across state lions for illegal porpoises."
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