Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 03, 2013

You think Shakespeare is hard, try Chaucer!

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures sooteThe droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licour,Of which vertu engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,And smale fowles maken melodye,That slepen al the night with open ye,(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;And specially, from every shires endeOf Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,The holy blisful martir for to seke,That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.

And the term ‘Gay 90s’ used to mean something different thanit does now….

Language is a movable feast. The richness and variety constantly shifts and changes with the times and usage. The electronic media has, by the necessity of the limitation of characters in a text, caused a dramatic shift in our communication skills – not necessarily for the better !

Just the fax, Ma’am: Joe Friday

And scandal free a whole 6 hours too!

Not to the English of his time it wasn’t.

Sir, you ended your sentence with a preposition. You are officially banned from this page forever.

(Next time use a proposition)

glad I can not text; and don’t even drive…

I miss the old days, when only football players did that stuff.

“Oh, no! Bob N. Weave is back!”- Duck N. Cover

and since “texting” uses a keyboard, the lovely use of cursive writing has all but disappeared; no longer being taught in many schools.

Brett Favre: Come on, guys. I texted ONE pic of my junk. JUST ONE.

Anthony Weiner: Amateur.

“Bob N. Weave.” Haha! Pretty much describes every politico in a debate or press conference.

.Um…lewd pictures? O.o Suddenly I’m very glad I don’t watch the “news.”

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer WIENER….!!!!!

Anthony Weiner’s new alias

The problem is that in Chaucer’s time there was no standardised spelling.

I can remember a time when doing drugs or having a felony conviction disqualified a person from running for public office. Now, it’s a requirement.

I was pushing for October 1st henceforth to be known as Congressional Stupidity Day. However, one day a year isn’t enough to cover the concept.

Speaking of the bard, did you hear about the fellow who complained that he didn’t like Shakespeare because his work is full of cliches?

packratjohn, Now that I think of it, I remember Susan saying something about Dog’s dangling participles, too…Can’t remember what it was, though….

I thought that was strictly a Weiner trademark right there!