A Little Humor for the Day 2024
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Lol. It’s ALWAYS the 10mm gone missing.
MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers.
-- Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary
-- Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary
Every year, Mrs. Badger and I get stuck for seasonal greetings card ideas. Since we have friends and extended family of widely varying tastes and religious beliefs (and none), I searched the web in desperation for a single card design I could print that would offend no one, and finally found this 19thC specimen, which I think you'll all agree, fully evokes the spirit of the holiday season in a completely non-denominational, non-sectarian way: a potato up a tree, playing the fiddle to a bunch of dancing pigs. The potato, by the way (I know my potatoes) is a Victoria Early Maincrop. The pigs look like a Merino cross. I don't believe the artist ever saw a pig before, and just had them described to him. I reckon the only way to understand the more bizarre Victorian Christmas cards is to realise that opium-derived medicines were cheap and readily available in chemists' shops everywhere... and no, I'm not joking. I am really going to send this card out. Here's yours. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, Som Besths and the rest, to you all.
