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John W. Vinson Premium

Semiretired computer geek and mythology fan

Recent Comments

  1. 5 days ago on Frank and Ernest

    Whenever you get to the station/there’s no need to be angry or vexed;/you’ll always be late for the previous [bus]/and always in time for the next! – Piet Hein, Grooks (edited slightly for context)

  2. 19 days ago on Frank and Ernest

    “In my humble (but correct!) opinion…”

  3. 22 days ago on MythTickle

    No, it’s a good cough suppressant. I’m old enough (78) to remember my mom giving me “elixer of alurate” – an opium solution – when I had a cough.Of course the cough suppression carried too far becomes respiratory arrest, the usual cause of overdose fatalities.

  4. about 2 months ago on Rose is Rose

    A quadruple expresso and a blueberry scone, for me… the quad shot might be something Rose’s alter ego would order though!

  5. 2 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    Then there was the young guy who went to the State College. He majored in animal husbandry until they caught him at it.

  6. 3 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    You walk into the room/and you ask "Is this where it is?:/and somebody points at you and says “It’s his!”/and you say “What’s mine?”/and somebody else says “Well what is?”/and you ask “Oh my God, am I here all alone?”

  7. 7 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    He’s just cloning around, as usual.

  8. 7 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    That’s all right, I have no taste for accounting either.

  9. 7 months ago on Rose is Rose

    Here in New Mexico chile peppers are a THING, they’re even featured on our license plates. Many restaurants offer a choice “Red, Green, or Christmas?” (meaning both). The flavor is different, but they’re both spicy, the green often hotter than the red. Yum!

  10. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

    There was a travel agency (remember them?) in Berkeley when I was a student there, which had a sign out front saying “Please go away!”