Saturday, April 4, 2009

Reader feedbag

A College Park sociologist says, "If that's the kind of stuff that get banned from the bugle you need to hire a new editor," faulting a lack of Beagletorrential judgment in having the cartoon, Ultimatum, on the Banned from the Beagle site.


A Washington, D.C. kingmaker asks cryptically, "Assume you have a can opener...............?" Among the can openers we have are a genuine bottle opener, knife and corkscrew from Haskell's liquor store in Minneapolis and a magnetic church key that was recently acquired as part of a rock star's swag.

In response to a question not asked, a St. Cloud correspondent reports that Bobby Vee still lives there and performs regularly. Further research reveals that Vee (who fired Bob Dylan as his piano player when Bob was Elston Gunn) recently moved to St. Joseph, in the suburbs of St. Cloud.

Our Hangzou correspondent sends this postcard from a lovely spring day on the way to Chang Kai Shek's vacation home.

1 comment:

  1. Do you know any Phil Gramm jokes (note Phil Gramm purports to be some kind of economists, and economists like to show what regular guys they are by telling economist jokes)...

    A physicist, an engineer, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with enough canned provisions to survive comfortably for weeks, but no can opener.

    The physicist springs into action and draws an elaborate scheme of diagrams on the beach, concluding they can use solar power and pressure to open the cans.

    The engineer develops a system of palm trees and vines to spring the cans apart, but due to a weakness in the materials, the apparatus kept hurling cans into the ocean.

    The economist elbowed them out of the way, saying, "I have a simple an elegant solution. Assume you have a can opener."

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