The Learning Curve http://tomwfox.wordpress.com New tricks for an old dog. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:45:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/62f3943c5e0f1308f39ff3f4dcf5dffa?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png The Learning Curve http://tomwfox.wordpress.com Devil’s dictionary – human http://tomwfox.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/devils-dictionary-human/ http://tomwfox.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/devils-dictionary-human/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:45:42 +0000 tomwfox http://tomwfox.wordpress.com/?p=1447 ]]>

Human: Penultimate stage of psycho-spiritual development in physical form, second only to being a cat.

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Gentiles: An extinct species of hominid. Formerly the answer to the question, “Who buys retail?” The answer to this question is currently “nobody”.

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Guilt: Along with fear, the sword and the knife of morality.

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Resurrection: What you do to a dead horse in preparation for beating it to death again. Akin to zombie obsession.

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You missed a once in a lifetime opportunity. Jane had a nearly full open bottle of Korbel champagne left over from her Fairness party last Saturday, and it went flat. It still tasted pretty good to me, but nobody else wants to drink flat champagne.

There was no way to put the cork back into that bottle, but I couldn’t bring myself to dump it out. So I used about a quart of champagne and boiled rice in it.

I made chicken & rice casserole cooked in champagne.

Odds are good it will never happen again. It was a very tasty casserole, for sure, but I’d never intentionally screw up a good bottle of champagne that way. Plus, it would elevate the dollar cost of chicken casserole way beyond all reason.

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