Rubes by Leigh Rubin for June 05, 2021

(You guessed it: “Study of clouds”)

I wanted to be a nephologist but I couldn’t afford the overheads.

Had to look it up. Greek nephos meaning cloud. Same Indo-European root as NIMBUS, NEBULA, and Germanic NIBELUNGEN.

Ah, must be the famous “Fool on the Hill” as written by the Beatles…“head in a cloud”

He could have gone into IT…

Adding the letter “r” and he could have been treating kidney disease.

Shoulda sent him for the bumology class.

One of those naggingly familiar words that I think I knew once, but still had to look up. When I run across it the next time, I’ll probably have forgotten it again.

Send him the bill. Maybe he can find a silver lining.

Does he get paid more for being a cloud specialist?

Barefoot, with his head in the clouds.

cloud whine

I thought nephology was the study of nephews.

One more letter and he could remove your kidney stone.

Nephology study of clouds

Makes me feel a little ashamed of myself of merely trying to see animal shapes in them…

One evening, while looking up in the sky, he thought he saw a bright star, so he asked it, “Are you Sirius?”

It wasn’t as star – it was a wispy cloud, which answered him, “Are you serious? I’m Cirrus.”

Meteorology: Study of meteors.

Better than a nephrologist! Well, I guess.