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Alia Parker's avatar

Low fat fish has me laughing 😆

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Armand Beede's avatar

Kate Morgan Reade: All your sayings, today, are quite on point, they sound mainstream, and topped off -- which is best -- with a little Monty Python.

The Frenchies on top of the parapet, too, promised the English kanigguts "to blow an ill-wind your way."

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Right? I feel a great need for the daily Grail as the chasm of crazy widens. Picturing a fish peeking above the parapet hurling gas with velocity over the wall is helping keep me sane.

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

"It's like fishing for a camel in a haystack." is my favorite out of this group. It brings to mind a very surreal scene from which Salvador Dali could have gotten a good painting.

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

I like that image, too! I would plug it into AI just to see, but I am trying to boycott because AI steals writers' and artists' original work. But I can picture it...

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

Thank you for going with a mental image instead of AI!

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Absolutely! Btw, ever since I worked in a vet clinic back in 1983, AI is—and remains—the abbreviation for Artificial Insemination. So much semen.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Nicely done! I'm looking forward to the companion piece using the homonyms formed by replacing the "h" with a "k"; e.g,

icktheology: The set of principles motivating Mike Johnson

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

YES! The ICK factor is sine qua non, now more than every before. That belongs in Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary! Mental note to self. 🦈

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Armand Beede's avatar

Stephen Schiff: And since Mike Johnson is a s- grinning Fundamentalist, you incorporated "Theology" in the pun.

Very insightful!

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

I love Jeff Tiedrich's name for him: Holy Mike Johnson. The guy whose porn-monitoring buddy is his son. It never fails. BTW, I heard that Jimmy Swaggart just died. I wonder what delusions he told himself about his own behavior as he prepared to meet the great selection in the sky. 😈

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