Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for March 22, 2024

I guess they didn’t have any sticks or stones.

Unless they are in print.

Spoken words might not hurt, but printed ones do…

Okay, technically the sticks are helping the words hurt him after they’ve been processed.

Words like ouch, ouch, ouch!

It’s still not the words themselves that are hurting him.

It’s the way the words are packaged and “delivered”.

be glad they’re not laptops…

Looks like they’ve thrown the book at him.

“Oh, yeah?”

The words are “bound” to hurt!

Horace, turn around and throw them back like a man…. errrr…

Drat! Forgot about books….☹️

lets test that theory… :j

Horace got nailed with a tome from Merriam-Webster and now he has a thesaur-@ss!

Ow, my appendix!

Throw a couple hard-bound dictionaries at him—that should help leave a mark. :P

Throw some clay and stone tablets at him.

a waste of books

I take great injury from unkind words.

“The pen is mightier than the sword—if you know where to poke it.”—Jeremy C. Shipp

Never forget the difference between facing critics virtually and facing them in actuality. :)

Coincidentally, they are books on sourcing and using “sticks and stones”. (Along with some First Aid stuff)

Ouch, that smarts.

Horace stands corrected!

You can judge the hardness of a book by its cover.

Books, on the other hand…

That must be a cop convention… they’re all throwing the book at him.

“Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words…”

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Wordsworth never hurt me.”