Humor and Squirrels' Whiskers
One of the dilemmas of writing humor is the issue of "too easy". That is to say, that a writer may struggle with an over-abundance of comic materials. Here are a few examples of such dilemmas...
- The 1988 photo of senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart wearing a "Monkey Business" t-shirt whist a very young, attractive, and non-wife Donna Rice sits on his lap
- The President of the United States declaring "I did not have sexual relations with that woman..."
- And who can forget the Ted Kennedy "Mike McGuire and Sammy Souza" line?
What to say about this guy? We could've given him a "Sopranos" name like "Jimmy the Cob" and made up a "gangsta" story about the squirrel's tough upbringing and his "need for seed".
On the other hand, we might have taken a more "Dr. Seuss" approach and fired off a post entitled "Gold Corn and Seed". Imagine for a moment a squirrel trying to avoid the temptation of "Reid-I-am", a "pusher" of corn and seed.
That Reid-I-am.
He demands I try gold corn and seed!
"But Please!" snarled Reid-I-am, "You must try my gold corn and seed!"
I do not like them,
Reid-I-am.
I do not like
gold corn and seed.
Would you like them here or there?
Would you like them behind the dumpster at the fair?
Look moron, I would not like them anywhere...
So, Reid-I-am,
depart,
lest I do three to five in the slam.
Naw... Everyone knows the ending, and besides, I can't draw dumpsters.
What else? What else? I could tell you that the ubiquitous Gray Squirrel's teeth never stop growing and the reason that the rodents continually gnaw is to keep their toothers sharp and under control... Boring! Nope... I've got some great squirrel pics (which you can see in our Flickr library), but I just don't know what to do with them...
Well, as the old Cape Cod saying goes, "When you can't dance or flesh out a blog post, and it's too windy to stack BBs, start counting the squirrel whiskers..."
I see roughly 15 per each side of the face... Wow!!! Now that's the kind of intellectual minutia that will blow away your Mensa brethren twixt acts two and three at the Met.
See you by those oh so interesting feeders,
CapeCodAlan
Comments
So, my friend, you are reduced to counting squirrel whiskers these days? I guess spring had better come pretty darned soon on the Cape or I shudder to think what might happen to you!
{CCA replies.... The problem isn't that of being crazy... I just didn't know what to do with the pictures!}
Posted by: Jo | April 9, 2008 5:05 PM
P.S. The photos are, as usual,
very excellent!
{Thanks! CCA}
Posted by: Jo | April 9, 2008 5:06 PM