Fun with words – guerilla info dumpers

Every so often I come across a phrase that is just too good not to share. When this gem hit my inbox it made my morning:
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From CNN’s weekly Newsletter “the Good Stuff” Sept 23, 2023 reported by AJ Willingham
“I met one of my favorite kinds of people the other day. As I was checking out at the craft store, the cashier read out my total: $19.44. ‘Hmm,’ he said absently. ‘June 6. A good year.’ I was busy digging for my wallet and had no idea what he was talking about, so I made a vaguely questioning sound. ‘June 6, 1944’ he repeated. ‘D-Day. When the allied forces turned the tide against the Axis powers.’ I was about to respond that I was glad I hadn’t spent three cents less when he went on: ‘That was also the year of the all-St. Louis World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the St. Louis Browns. Of course, they aren’t the Browns anymore. They became the Baltimore Orioles about ten years later.’ He talked about the Orioles for a while longer and then gave a sly grin, as if he had just handed me a very old coin — interesting, worth keeping, but impossible to know what to do with. I love people like that. Let’s call them guerilla info dumpers; the ones who drop random bits of knowledge in your lap without warning because you can just tell they want to share it with the world. It feels like a little gift, doesn’t it? A gift that costs nothing, and listen, maybe it means nothing too. I doubt I will need to recall the 1944 World Series in my daily life. But now I know something I didn’t know before. That’s something to be grateful for.”

Fun With Words

Fun With Words

Your Smart Toilet Awaits You!
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Not making this up, I copied it from a magazine ad from Kohler!
But can it talk to your smart TV or smart refrigerator?

Fun With Words

The oldest computer was owned by Adam and Eve.
It was an Apple with very limited memory.
Just 1 byte and everything crashed!

Fun With Words

Fun With Words

Do you find that you are paying more for your groceries but getting less in the package? Here’s a new word for this scam that corporations are doing to us “Shrinkflation”. Heard it coined on one of the nightly news casts.

If you put the word in a Google search you will get some very interesting articles to read.

“In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase.” Wikipedia

Fun With Words

Fun with words

We all could use a laugh these days.
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Dumb warning labels:
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On a baby stroller – “Remove child before folding.”
On a brass fishing lure with a three-pronged hook on the end – “Harmful if swallowed.”
On a cartridge for a laser printer – “Do not eat toner.”
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And this last one beats them all:
On a carpenter’s electric drill – “This product is not intended for use as a dental drill.”

Fun With Words

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. I’m sure these will make you laugh! Here are the winners:
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Fun With Words

Here is a laugh for Halloween: