I love that many of us still remember fondly that spring day in March 2012 when a magical hobo changed Nola Wolvenson's life. Please Dawn, please have the same epiphany!
I love that many of us still remember fondly that spring day in March 2012 when a magical hobo changed Nola Wolvenson's life. Please Dawn, please have the same epiphany!
"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." (Attributed to an assortment of people, including Helen Keller, Wally Lamb, Leo Tolstoy, the Persian poet Saadi, and more. Maybe KM will use it as the Sunday opening quotation.)
ReplyDeleteWanders, I note that @meg and I commented on that day in March 2012. We're proud to still be snarking after all those years.
Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
ReplyDelete"If One-Armed Jim Didn't Do It, This Guy Won't Either".
All right? Help?
Wha- ?
Upset. Help?
Oh...no.
All right.
The kindly stranger does not disappoint in his choice of words. However, we should not anticipate a new, healing romance for Dawn. Dawn is all about external appearance (as Nance points out in her BFH title). Ask One-Armed Jim. Ask sweet Jared, the medical assistant. Our eternal undergrad is shallower than a transient rain puddle.
ReplyDeleteNice to see a person of color in MW, however brief his tenure may be.
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Gaaahhhh... I need to stop checking in here until after I've eaten breakfast.
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I saw this guy and my first thought was "I was just on my way to the Santa Royale Community Theater auditions of Phantom of the Opera and saw you crying. Are you alright? Do you need help?"
ReplyDeleteThis guy doesn't know what kind of mess he got himself into. He's going to wish he was back in the country that blew off half his face after dealing with Dawn and her pity party. Perhaps he's from from the Republic of Congo and he can console her in French.
Great comments today and love the BFH title, Nance. Like you fauxprof, I am happy to see a person of color as well,as defective as he may be. I doubt there will be a romance because as fauxprof pointed out, Dawn is very shallow when it comes to looks and appearances. Plus MW is still stuck in the 1950s and I'm sure KM (who is as clueless as they come) still thinks that interracial romance a taboo subject.
Are you all right? CLOSE!
ReplyDeleteCall me skeptical, but wasn't Dawn supposed to have learned this lesson already when her cruise ship sank?
ReplyDeleteBrilliant BFH again!
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ReplyDeleteDawn’s carrying on SO MUCH, Wilbur might want to interview her for his Survivor Stories.
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ReplyDeleteI don't want to offend any of my god-fearing fellow Worthers, but I suspect that even many religious folks would agree that this cliché offered by Burny McBurnface today (a.k.a. the Phantom of the Airport) is utter tripe, because quite clearly many of us are getting more than we can handle on a daily basis as evidenced by suicides, mass shooting and even garden variety freakouts.
"God won't give you more than you can handle. For example, it wasn't god who gave me a power sander that I subsequently confused with my cellphone."
ReplyDeleteI was gonna hold off on joking about whatever it is that has befallen this guy but in sympathy with Yahoonski I feel OK setting phasers to snark.
"Shallower than a transient rain puddle"!! Poetry, fauxprof!! Tim P, brilliant!! Your comments had me guffawing on a sunny Saturday afternoon after 4pm, which is very difficult to achieve most times. It's too bad people who employ cliches in writing (aka KM) aren't eligible for the death penalty....
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words, LouiseF!
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