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From the Porch Swing

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

Half of my family tree has never had any heart trouble. The other side of my family tree never had a male live to age 60 until my father did it, and while some were killed fighting wars, all the others died of heart problems.

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Between a rock and a hard place

I’m not sure where this expression came from, perhaps from when stoning was a societal punishment, but I think I know what it means in these times.

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Call me Smee.

Theoretically, I’m a SME, a Subject Matter Expert, capitalized and underlined. While not sure of the proper pronunciation of the acronym, it could be Smeh, or Sih-mee

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Bald is beautiful.

I like to say that Mother Nature only made a few perfect heads, and the rest she covered with hair. I’m also fond of claiming that high-quality thinking generates electric fields that kill hair follicles.

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I love carriers.

I’ve spent most of my professional life as a shipper but I love carriers. Why do I love carriers? Lots of reasons.

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The men in the white coats are coming to take you away.

Back in the olden days, when I was a counselor at summer camp, Sea Dog and I used to have a little routine whenever someone did something memorably idiotic.

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I own an English to English dictionary.

Heck, I wrote it. You may have heard the United Kingdom and the United States referred to as “two countries divided by a common language”.

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Madam, I’m Adam.

Oops, I wrote that backward. It should have read madA m’I ,madaM. Oh, wait, if we ignore the punctuation marks and spaces, it still says the same thing!

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PINK ELEPHANTS

For the next 60 seconds you may think of anything you want, except Pink Elephants.

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“Aw, Dad, I’m finally used to things here.”

I had just informed my son that for the second time in his 15 years of life, I was about to move him to a new city and a new school.