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Best of Spirits

A long cold winter in the forecast.

Cat
The last good nights
of a hunting moon.
 
The cats will depend
upon us soon.
 
They trust us as gods,
so they're not scared.
 
Dear Father God?
I'm unprepared!



The Art of

Another reason why English literacy should be required for citizenship.

The plural of mouse is mice,
a flock of goose is geese,
but more than one house is not hice,
nor a flock of moose known as meese.
 
You might have a couple of beers,
you might wish a hundred wishes,
but you can't see a couple of deers,
and a hundred fish are not fishes.
 
Yet if I have two scissors, and I give you one,
each now has scissors. English is fun!
Mouse, Moose
Insomniac: Where's that from? It reminds me of something Ogden Nash would have written.

mindful webworker: Erm, heh - bits of it from childhood, inspiration in previous comments, a touch of research on invariant nouns et al., but just baked originally at #177 on AoS.

Insomniac: In that case, I tip my hat to you sir. Very well done.

anon a mouse: Very cool. Of course, you'll be receiving the usual AoS accolades...




Radical Incline

Nobody likes a teasing bully.

Taunting
"Big Blue Marble" photo,
courtesy of the crew of Apollo 17



Radical Incline

The Surreality of State Department Briefings

h/t for inspiration to Morons on Ace of Spades blog, especially
J.J. Sefton
and others.



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