Sporadic bits that make me smile.
From Lone Star Nation, I came across a passage quoted from President Sam Houston.
Ah yes, Pres. Sam Houston let the Brits, twice kicked by the Yankees, know that if the US didn’t want to help, maybe the Brits would, and thereby, get themselves a trading partner in the Gulf. (page 502)
I always knew I liked them folks in London for some reason.
“To have what we would have we speak not what we mean.”
Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Act II. scene iv. line 118.
Or something like that.
Unrelated:
My “on air handler” is the Leo, Angela. At the close of the program, an ad ran, something like, “Duty, honor, Leo.”
I pointed out my version. Her comment?
“Well, yeah, exactly.”
Chum:
The cat was eating around some cat food, in other words, I could see that she was carefully not eating some of her dried food. I scooped it out of her bowl and tossed it in the lake. A few hours later?
More than two feet of catfish:
(on that Crappie pole, no less!)
(and another bass “with child”)
