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Random thoughts for a November day“
A new term for old people:
The formerly young.
When you go to the park-
ing lot where you’ve parked
your car and it isn’t where
you thought you parked it,
is your first thought, “Damn!
Someone stole my car!” Then,
when you find your car, do
you give a silent apology
to the person you falsely
accused?
Whenever I’m in a hot tub,
I feel like I’m a member of the
1%.
we should use the word
“unsettled” instead of “set-
tled” when referring to the
effect of immigrants Occupy-
ing other people’s land. For
instance, American pioneers
didn’t “settle” the West —~
they “unsettled” the West. No
one can argue that they didn’t
unsettle the lives of Native
Americans. This could catch
on, similar to how people no
longer say that Christopher
Columbus or Leif Erikson
“discovered” America.
KERK EfilC‘SOi’wé
THESE
TIMES
I was hiking on a trail
along a creek two weeks ago
when a man and two women
approached me, near a spot
where a group of roots from
a nearby tree had broken
through the soil along the
trail. Pointing to the roots, I
asked the man, “Do you know
what this is called?” He said
no, “but they might,” pointing
to the two women. He said
the women just' finished get-
ting their doctorates in bio—
diversity studies, so I asked
them what a collection of ex-
posed tree roots is called. One
said she knew the name, but
she couldn’t recall it. I said
AND DELAYS.
I LOVE IT! I'USED TO
COMPLAIN ABOUT ’
LOUSY ROAD AND SIDE-
WALKS. NOW I CAN
WHINE ABOUT THE DUST
I’ve asked several hikers that
question, and they often say
they know the word but can’t
recall it either. She replied, “I
know! I know! It’s like no one
can remember the name for
that plastic thing on the end
of a shoelace ...” At the same
instant, the man and I blurt-
ed out the word “aglet.” We
eyed each other for a second,
then I turned to the woman
and said, “Apparently, it’s not
at all like aglet.”
Instead of people refer-
ring to themselves as semire-
tired, they should say they’re
semiworking.
Saying that someone is “a
slave to their phone” is disre-
spectful to people who were
once slaves to their planta-
tion master. '
When I hear the word
“panacea” or “placebo,” I have
to take a second to figure out
their separate meanings. And
when I see the word “chasm”
or “chaos,” I have to remind
myself it’s a hard “ch-” not a
soft one. ‘
sham-mummy 110mm!
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Kirk Ericson, Columnist] Proofreader
Here are some bad bum—
perstickers to have on your
car if you’re traveling through
rural Oklahoma. Again, I
urge you, DO NOT display
these decals on your car in
rural Oklahoma:
0 Belt buckles are for
losers
0 Allah bless America
0 Trucks suck
0 Holy jihad!
0. Only obese people die of
COVID
The negative and the now
— that’s what most of us f0—
0118 on.
Taking ivermectin as a
COVID-19 treatment was a
very effective way for Green
Bay Packers quarterback
Aaron Rodgers to let the pub-
lic know everything they need
to know about Aaron Rodgers.
Paddleboarders don’t look
like they’re having as much
fun as they thought they’d
have. H
We need a word that’s
the opposite of the word
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“schadenfreude,” the Ger—
man word that means taking
pleasure in another person’s
pain. We need a word that ex-
presses the feeling of taking
pleasure in another person’s ~
pleasure.
Here’s a fine German
word: Weltanschauung. It
means having a comprehen-
sive view of humanity’s place
in the universe.
When you close the door,
“close” is pronounced “cloZe.”
When you’re close to some-
one, it’s pronounced “cloSe.”
Considering all the ills
that can befall human beings,
we should be happier than we
are.
I bet people younger than
16 years of age don’t know
what a toll-free number is.
Have close-talkers experi-
enced a higher—than-normal'
COVID contraction rate?
I Contact Kirk Ericson at
kirk@masoncounty.c0m
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