Friday, July 10, 2015

Good morning crew,

I was going to completely relax this weekend, which for me means spending 48 hours in my bathrobe, but I just might be tempted to invest a few hours Saturday at 'Greek Fest' in one of the neighboring towns out here.

It's hard to say no to a rainy, sticky, 89 degree afternoon wandering around a church parking lot eating Souvlaki, Gyros, Tiropita, Spanakopita and Baklava, and chasing it all down with warm Ouzo and Metaxa.

Although the deciding factor might be the live music. 'The Hellenic Five' Greek band is going to be there, and you don't get to hear that kind of music every day.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself." -Lisa Kirk

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"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own short-comings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." --Margaret Halsey

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"Since childhood is a time when kids prepare to be grown ups, I think it makes a lot of sense to completely traumatize your children. Gets 'em ready for the real world" --George Carlin

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As the high school teacher was correcting essays written by her students she read, "Pedro jumped on his burrow and rode off into the sunset."

She wrote at the bottom of the page, "You obviously have problems with homonyms. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A burro is an ass. At your age it's time to learn the difference."


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My brother Scott brought over a photo album of his camping trip. One picture showed a brown bear helping itself to his food. "What kind of bear is that?" I asked.

"It's called a Kodiak," Scott replied.

"Oh, yeah?" my husband Keith shot back. "And I suppose those white ones in the Arctic are called Polaroids."