Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for August 02, 2014

Years ago I just started working at a new job and got an email requesting some information signed ASAP. I turned to a coworker and asked who the email was from. He looked at it and replied “Oh, that’s the boss. He signs all of his emails that way.” Eventually we decided that our boss was not very good at planning for things and that’s why every request was urgent. One day after another one of these emails I turned to my coworker and said “I think the boss is having problems with his space bar. Shouldn’t they be signed A SAP”

His fables such as the Fox and the Earthworm, Two Newts and a Salamander,and the Cow and the Spaghetti; just never caught on.

Just before Perry died I saw him at a Casino… On the tables were notes " Mr. Como requests you not smoke. After the show I went back stage and gave him a Life Magazine from 1958 with his picture on the front cover with a cigarette in his hand. I think he was in his 80’s and still GREAT.

Don’t forget the fancy shipping labels for all those fables

I usually think of journalists as the writers who have deadlines to meet, not authors of books. I remember reading The Lion and the Mouse, and The Wind and the Sun (two of Aesop’s fables) in second grade, Sometimes the morals of these fables are written in italics following them, in other printings of the fables, they expect us to see the morals for the stories ourselves.

Asleeth, I think the fables are simply too familiar. Look how many phrases have entered our language. Jeopardy just used “sour grapes” as an answer because it’s common knowledge. So I’m assuming they were all fresh and entertaining when they were written.