STRUGGLING NEWSPAPERS: RETAIN THE ADVICE COLUMNS
Two of the Shedd's beluga whales are pregnant, a state discovered upon their return from a brief sojourn at the Mystic Aquarium during Shedd renovations.
Ann Landers thus has once again been vindicated. For years she had counseled barren women to "just relax". Take a nice vacation with the hubbie.
Note the equal wisdom of Ann's no-underwater-nooky rule. Aka the need for contraception doesn't end at the waterline, Mister.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Ann has a no underwater nooky rule?
ReplyDeleteIs that fresh water or salt? That could make the difference.
ReplyDeleteHow did I guess that I'd hear a certain distant voice politely query: citation?
ReplyDeleteI distinctly remember a "my boyfriend says we don't need birth control in the swimming pool" letter. Alas these pre-HIV, pre-jacuzzi golden days have no digital existence, and even newspaper archives have largely disappeared.
Speaking of painful papercuts: ouch with the salt!