{"id":10,"date":"2006-07-03T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:51:20","slug":"humour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bushisms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.\u009d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I can only speak to myself.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s in our country&#8217;s interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm&#8217;s way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There&#8217;s not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that&#8217;s responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be,\u00a0 a more literate country and a hopefuller country.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;First I&#8217;d like to spank all the teachers &#8230;&#8221; (more a Freudian slip than a Bushism.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;The opposite of talking isn&#8217;t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.&#8221; &#8211; <span class=\"author\"><strong>Fran Lebowitz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"><span class=\"author\"><strong>Bathroom Humour: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"quote\">How long a minute is depends upon which side of the bathroom door you&#8217;re on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"quote\">Constipation is timeless, but diarrhoea waits for no man.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mark Twain on Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Naughty:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;When I want to play with a prick, I&#8217;ll play with my own.&#8221; &#8211; W.C.Fields<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Heterosexuality is not normal, it&#8217;s just common&#8221;\u009d &#8211; Dorothy Parker<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s a small apartment, I&#8217;ve barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.&#8221; &#8211; Dorothy Parker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sanity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Hermann Hesse &#8211; Swiss (German-born) author (1877 &#8211; 1962)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reality is a crutch for people who can&#8217;t cope with drugs.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Lily Tomlin &#8211; US actress &amp; comedienne (1939 &#8211; )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Found these comics a while back in the Montreal Gazette. I love Opus, the satirical weekly comic strip by Berkeley Breathed. Guess I&#8217;m one of his, yes, &#8216;imperfect, seriously flawed fans&#8217;. Did you know that Berkeley Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987 with the strip <em>Bloom County? <\/em>Hope you enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-content\/opus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Opus and Dr. Medwell.\" src=\"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-content\/opus.jpg\" alt=\"Opus and Dr. Medwell\" width=\"700\" height=\"509\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Click to see the whole comic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-content\/chicken.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Opus and Free-Range Chickens.\" src=\"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-content\/chicken.jpg\" alt=\"Opus and Free-Range Chickens\" width=\"700\" height=\"504\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Click to see the whole comic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bushisms: In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.\u009d &#8220;I can only speak to myself.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s in our country&#8217;s interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm&#8217;s way.&#8221; &#8220;See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and &#8230; <a title=\"Humour\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/humour\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Humour\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}