Something Smells Fishy
Don’t you?
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Wow! So wonderful when you’re expecting an acerbic retort, but find consideration and kindness pouring out instead. Makes you want to start singing.
In addition to giving an honorary title of Dog Whisperer, I think we’ll have to add Jerk Whisperer too!
You would certainly never be out of work.
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Jerk Whisper. Love that. But as my friend Ed tells me, one day, I’m going to get a good smack. Sometimes Skinny, I wish Norma would leave town. Thanks, as always.
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Well played Saint SB. Now I’m wondering … how many inner voices do you have? There’s Norma & Joan … more? … Yes – Spinach Pie as a rapper name! Keep smiling and stay safe.
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Thanks Frank. Kurt talks to me a lot, like a coach. 🙂
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I know … he’s a muse for yours.
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Yeah, he’s my amusing muse alright. 🙂
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Kindness is one of the besties going…you did exactly what was needed and it had a perfect result. Maybe, just maybe, the irritated customer will take it to heart and pass it on! You never know what effect, if any, it will have but it’s always worth spreading…a bit of kindness can have an awesome impact and who knows but God. We are His ambassador’s you know. Right on Susannah. Extra icing on the cake is thinking about Victor and how happy his day became. Absolutely! See kindness pays dividends…always!
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Well, you and me should take it on the road Vasca since, it’s not exactly catching on like wild fire ,this kindness business.
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Few weeks back I designed and printed a big page ‘thank you/appreciation’ for each staff member here in my world of quarantine. Passed them out and the result was smiling all over the place. Kindness is one big hoorah to cheer others on. Keep going and your supply will not go dry! God guarantees it and He bats last…as I recall. Hugs ‘n thanks!
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Yes, he bats last. Thanks for reminding me. 🙂
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You have a seat at the table.
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I love that expression. 🙂
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A little kindness never did anyone any harm.
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One could say, it reaps a lot of spinach.
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Indeed. You were treated kindly and with civility as you were kind and civil to the person helping you. In these straightened times it can be difficult to maintain a modicum of decorum, however it would be for the better of the world at large if everyone waited and showed a little more respect.
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Sounds great Dex, but don’t hold your doggie breath. I’m just sayin’. sigh
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Never give up Ms Susannah. People are stressed and feel pressured more so now than in their recent lives. I find that smiling is the best infectious thing that people can catch. I do it to so many people who are “too busy and stressed out”. Works wonders.
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Okay, I’ll give it a whirl. Now where did I put that smile? 🙂
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It is either so disarming or people think you are some crazy person with a penchant for gruesome endings.
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Yes, being Norma and Joan, with a swirl of Pollyanna, does make you somewhat of a freak.
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I think angel is more like it. 😊
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Yeah, I a disciple was pushing it.
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Angel is a higher position.
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Remember in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), George ,played by Jimmy Stewart says, every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings. Always loved that. 🙂
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Me too. I’ve always liked angel stories. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) is one of my favorites (Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty is a remake).
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I love Heaven Can’t Wait. One of my favorite films. Loved Jack Warden as the coach. Great, great movie.
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Jack Warden was terrific.
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I so loved him. Also in Shampoo when he plays Lester, the guy keeping Julie Christie. Warren Beatty obviously really liked him. A drinker that is no more. sigh
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I enjoyed him in the TV series’ N.Y.P.D. and Craxy Like a Fox. He won an Emmy for the latter.
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Never saw him in either. Too bad. sigh
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Aw. I keep forgetting what a youngster you are. You Tube has a few.
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if only. Sigh. I just remember how he could transform himself. Love how much he loved Joe in Heaven Can Wait. The sadness he showed in the beginning, and the elation when he believed he had come back. Cinema, not to mention Beatty, at its best.
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I so agree. 😊
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Impatience over having to live like this is no excuse for rudeness. Especially to those who are there DOING for us. Yes, one of these days you might end up with a smack – I sure hope not, though! These bullies like Lululemon Lad sometimes need to be reminded that kindness and patience and getting their noses out of their own belly-buttons will serve them far more than rudeness and lack of empathy.
As Mark said, take a seat!
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Take a seat. That’s great. I love that.
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You have earned your spot many times fold
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I don’t know. I’m not exactly Lara Croft of Tomb Raider
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Pffft! Don’t need to be her to be badass in a great way 😉
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This is true.
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Like Marcella said: “Give a little bit of love and you’ll get it back”.
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Sounds like a song.
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Spinach pie and sushi? Sounds like me when I make my trips downtown to Central Market. Nothing like it, nothing.
As for this miserable bastid, it seems you provided a positive energy transfusion for him as it were. I truly believe it happens. Maybe not all the time, but there are times when a person’s lesson does in fact have this effect on someone who might otherwise be clueless.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wasn’t kiddin when he said…”Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. You said it Scott.
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Says it all
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Yes it does.
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I know it’s too for this but…at least read it. About the Orthodox Community in Brooklyn being the ones giving the most blood for Covid-19. There’s something poignant about it since, they’re considered such freaks by many.
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Was this the piece? . . .
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Yes, there’s also a great photo of them in line, like a bunch of seals.
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It’s some story
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I love your stories I’ll bet you can spin itch into a good tale, too.
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as long as it’s not pulled since I YAM what I YAM.
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I’ll stand under the under the old oak tree where aCORNs fall to wait for your tale.
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Try not to SQUIRREL them away, OAKie Dokie?
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I’ll ask the DOG, WOOD he like to chase the squirrel?
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Maybe he’s a BIRD dog, who likes to be GOOSED.
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Yes, and he’s PINE-ing for his Lady Bird dog.
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Awe, I’ll be EVERGREEN with envy.
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I MAPLE his tail.
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You’re so good. How can I top that.
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Maybe top it with a pet peeve?
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Or a hat. a Top Hat. 🙂
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My hat is off to you. You are always ready to play. Super!
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Like Teddy, we toss our hat in the ring, to CAP it.
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The beret ate (berate) the cap.
Sorry, a bit far-fetched.
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It’s very cLOUCHE.
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As STET’S SON says, “Tip your hat to a lady.”
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As long as it’s not a 10 GALLON chapeau.
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I FED DORA’S cat recently. The cat didn’t need 10 gallons of anything.
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That’s cause it won the DERBY.
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I was TRILBY your comment.
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You’re BOWLERing me over.
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I could PAN A MAma’s acting in her new movie.
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I thought Mama was from HOMBURG.
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You win! I ran out of hat types. I might crown you with a Burger King crown, brimming with fake jewels.
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PASTEd jewels? Or the real thing?
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Fake jewels — it’s my FAUXlt they’re not real.
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COPY that.
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GEMma would say don’t copy it. Are you a FAKIr?
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Just a PEARL of a girl.
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RUBE, ‘E doesn’t share your opinion.
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Not to interrupt the game but…RUBE was a favorite word of Bill Hicks. Loved calling people that.
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Interesting! I like the sound of it, too.
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He died so long ago, yet I remember it well, how he’d snap it in his Texan twang.
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Isn’t it something that one word can bring up a vivid memory?
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He loved language way before I truly discovered it. He was such a bright guy.
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Needless to say, you miss him still. I wish i could have met him.
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A great love of mine to be sure. I always say, when Bill died, something of me went with him. My innocence perhaps.
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A piece of your heart went with Bill. It’s a bit of you that no one else had.
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What a lovely way to put it. Thank you Anne.
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I’m just not up to your level, the way you can stretch syllables turning them into puns. I need more practice. You’re kind to even play with such a novice.
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Play is play! I enjoy words, and I love chatting with you.
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You’re a peach.
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If I fall, I’ll PLUMmet.
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BLIMEy!
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I wore BLACK; BURIED my grudges.
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I see RED, since I’ve unEARTHed mine.
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ORANGE you going to ask me about it?
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Isn’t ORANGE the new BLACK?
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You told him. 🙂 I’ve heard some horror stories about how service workers are getting treated these days, although I suppose there is a lot of gratitude too. Hopefully so, at least.
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I say thanks all day long. Ask how they are. Thank them. I’ll admit, consciousness needs to be in the house at all times, and even I find it challenging, but we do our best. My theory is, that’s all that matters. The attempt.
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