(Especially with politicians, but that's a different posting)
The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Wordplay For The Day
Failed Business Ventures: The fellow who bought nearly played-out diggings of a valuable metal with a low melting point and tried to turn it onto a tourist trap where visitors could experience first-hand what it was like to get the raw ore might have had a good idea with the proper metal, but somehow "Mine Your Own Bismuth" never caught on.
Oh, my. That is awful!
ReplyDelete(Imagine me in the same room, groaning at the awfulness.)
I kind of liked it.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever make it to Boomershoot I need to introduce you to Rolf Nelson. Puns come out of Rolf at the rate of about 1 per minute.
{ren}I'm gonna hit you, and you're gonna fallllll. {/ren}
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSEWs1fdJg
4:20 in, amusingly enough.
Oh, I dunno, I think bismuth is gonna come in pretty handy. The pink stuff, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat stinks on ice, Roberta, but it's a good stink.
ReplyDeleteThey had a contest to name the new prison up at Arcata California (on the ocean) some years back when I was living out west. Still don't understand why mine didn't win over "Pelican Bay State Prison".
ReplyDeleteI thought "Slammer by the Sea" sounded sort of poetic.