Fish for Friday

Edited by Morris Dean

[Anonymous selections from recent correspondence]

As much credit as John F. Kennedy gets, he never understood the poor. Most of what he did he was forced to do in order to save face. Johnson came the closest to understanding and trying to help the poor, but he was such a contradiction it is hard to tell if he really understood or was just politically smart.

Men can have Dimples of Venus too, you know. You reviewed the movie The Attack on Sunday. Didn't you notice the actor Ali Suliman's Dimples of Venus in that sex scene? Strikingly deep...sorry I can't find an image on the web anywhere.

Beer and bullets: "Oklahoma Gun Range Gets Alcohol License." Excerpt:

"As a group we wanted to build a place, the first one in Oklahoma, where you could go in, shoot, enjoy the retail area, and then go to the café," said Jeff Swanson, co-owner of the 40,000-square-foot Wilshire Gun.
    Swanson told reporters they are working with other gun ranges in other states like California and Texas that also have alcohol licenses to ensure that the alcohol and shooting don't mix.
    "Once your order a drink your driver's license is scanned and you are red-flagged and you're not allowed into any of the shooting facilities either as a spectator and certainly not as a shooter for the remainder of the day," Swanson said. That means that anyone who desires to shoot a gun must do so before ever touching a drop of alcohol.
    "Any misconceptions or joking aside, beer and bullets, guns and alcohol, they do not mix," he said.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But once you get there, you can move mountains. –Steve Jobs

Highly creative people tend to lose track of the time.
    Creative types may find that when they're writing, dancing, painting or expressing themselves in another way, they get "in the zone," or what's known as a flow state, which can help them to create at their highest level. Flow is a mental state when an individual transcends conscious thought to reach a heightened state of effortless concentration and calmness. When someone is in this state, they're practically immune to any internal or external pressures and distractions that could hinder their performance.
    You get into the flow state when you're performing an activity you enjoy that you're good at, but that also challenges you – as any good creative project does.
    "[Creative people] have found the thing they love, but they've also built up the skill in it to be able to get into the flow state," says Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist at New York University who has spent years researching creativity. "The flow state requires a match between your skill set and the task or activity you're engaging in."

Last photo in the camera:

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

I guess we should give the devil his dues: "NRA Tells Open Carriers to Stop Being 'Downright Weird'." Excerpt:

The National Rifle Association is calling people who choose to publicly display firearms for the sole purpose of making a statement "foolish" and "attention-hungry."
    "Let's not mince words, not only is it rare, it's downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself," the NRA writes in a story posted to the website of its lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action.
    "To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one's cause, it can be downright scary. It makes folks who might normally be perfectly open-minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates."

To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor's office. "Is it true," she wanted to know, "that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?"
    "Yes, I'm afraid so," the doctor told her.
    There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied, "I'm wondering, then, just how serious is my condition because this prescription is marked 'NO REFILLS'."

Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

Limerick of the Week:

Some who spend time at the gym are so hot,
they motivate others to take up a spot
    and watch as they bend
    and stretch their rear end,
while they steady their smartphone for a shot:

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