The Buckets by Greg Cravens for May 14, 2014

The web:Some times a source of information.Always a source for entertainment.

I’ve heard that originally, Television was seen as a great social uplifter- people thought that we would be watching opera and great plays and professorial lectures on television and the whole of America would become better educated and more erudite. That flopped. Now we have to wait until the In’ernets makes us all so malformed that we destroy society and have to start over. But we still won’t put Opera on TV, so, oh well. I’ma go watch the new ep’sode of ‘Lizard Lick Towing’.

above, it should have been “mal-informed”. I’m really tired of spell-check.

Don’t eat it!!!

Don’t eat it!!!

I bet it turns out to be people….

Dear Friends … before you “Share” something you see on Facebook (like the missing girl who’s kidnapper had Quebec Plates, or the paper on the back window thing …) check www.Snopes.com or www.Hoax-Slayer.com or just google it … are you that damn stupid and/or gullible that you honestly think EVERYTHING is true? If so, pay me $10,000 and you can own 1,000,000 acres of land on the moon or Mars!

Greg. I remember those days. Just as soon as the UHF channels open up everything will be great, just as you described.

Agreed Larry.

Exactly!

xxx

But Greg, I have seen opera on TV. Okay, it was PBS and I kept right on surfing the channels, but it was there. Honest!

I like PBS, but we’re not going to pretend that they generate the audience appeal of, say, one of the Lowest-Common-Denominator stations showing videos of fat people twerking at a wedding until the stage collapses beneath them.

something I learned on Sunday – Verdi was German. Don Carlo is a Spanish subject, translated into French and set to music by an Italian. .Opera was very popular in France. Germany. Austria. England. and yes. Italy.

…what was today’s subject?…. oh yeah, the ol’ facebook. I never seem to find those weird places on the intjernets. Founds the diction-aries.. that was a bust. Theys all in Americ’n. Needs der’ englesh ones. .and @Greg? Turn off the spell check – more fun. My fingers type away one their own and sometimes I get a word I didn’t expect to type.

Ah, we have a lot of good meat substitutes already. Tofu, beans and rice — any legume and any grain.