28 October 2006

Learning grammar

"I was gonna give it to you back, but I didn't. Next time i will gonna give it to you back."

-- my daughter, age 3

21 October 2006

Excerpt:

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
He wife could eat no lean
And so between the two of them
They licked the splattered spleen.

-- From Grand Guignol Nursery Rhymes

14 October 2006

Chicago: a definition

"Chicago is not the third-largest city in America, Chicago is the largest Midwestern city in the world."

-- John Probes