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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
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Monday, December 17

Stray Thoughts & Neologisms


I may have used some of this in an earlier blog, but I can't remember. So, in case I have, here it is again.

Thoughts:

Isn’t it sad that some people can turn on tv and not find
               a single program that insults their intelligence?
The oral comprehensive (or any difficult test) exam might be
               a situation in which the testers slowly squeeze the testees.
The things that make people laugh say a lot about their intelligence.
The things that make people cry say a lot about their sensitivity.
Note how these adjectives are all close in meaning but all different:
          smart, intelligent, wise, knowledgeable.
One cannot achieve wisdom without first being intelligent.
Intelligence must precede wisdom.


Neologisms:

πŸ”»Arbitrator: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's.
πŸ”»Avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do.
πŸ”»Bernadette: The act of torching a mortgage
πŸ”»Burglarize: What a crook sees withControl: A short, ugly inmate
πŸ”»Counterfeiters: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets
πŸ”»Eclipse: what an English barber does for a living
πŸ”»Eyedropper: a clumsy ophthalmologist
πŸ”»Heroes: what a guy in a boat does
πŸ”»Left Bank: what the robber did when his bag was full of loot
πŸ”»Misty: How golfers create divots
πŸ”»Paradox: two physicians
πŸ”»Parasites: what you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
πŸ”»Pharmacist: a helper on the farm
πŸ”»Polarize: what penguins see with
πŸ”»Primate: removing your spouse from in front of the TV 
πŸ”»Relief: what trees do in the spring 
πŸ”»Rubberneck: what you do to relax your wife 
πŸ”»Seamstress: describes 250 pounds in a size 6 
πŸ”»Selfish: what the owner of a seafood store does 
πŸ”»Sudafed: brought litigation against a government official 
πŸ”»Subdued: . . . like a guy, like works on one of those, like, submarines, man

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