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Saturday Silliness ! # 1

Uvebruce
3 min readSep 26, 2020

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Each Saturday I’m posting a silly collection of nothingness to kickstart your weekend. Enjoy !

Pic courtesy of Amnon

You know you’re getting old when squatting and reaching in to clear the back of the dishwasher, is bound to set off an unwelcome breaking of wind!

An Uneducated guess – what exactly is an uneducated guess? Isn’t everybody educated to some degree these days. I often wonder how off the mark you’ve got to be to qualify for the uneducated guess category! Please respond with examples.

“Lanyard” around your neck. As in – “I keep my security card on my lanyard”. If it was around your wrist it would be a bracelet. Or a chain … but around the neck … it’s a LANYARD! It’s actually an old naval military term most used on old sailing ships. French – “laniere”! Who elevated the word lanyard to replace chord or necklace!

Does anyone own a donkey whose name is “Kong”?

If a cookie falls on the floor and you pick it up … that constitutes a squat, right?

Covid lockdown has not been that bad … but can anyone tell me why one bag of rice has 44567 rice pieces and the other IDENTICAL BAG only has 45560!

And while you’re in lockdown, the seasons are changing from summer to winter … so don’t forget to put your clocks forward in countries that do this! You don’t want to be late for…

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Uvebruce
Uvebruce

Written by Uvebruce

Brand Nerd. Waiting for the fat lady to sing ! Dyslexic - is it there or their. Passionate about making time to just think!! Sadly thinking hasn’t helped much.

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