It is - and the lesson is to not rely on ChatGPT!
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The humor in this may only be evident to meâ
Last night I had a dream in Spanish. It took place with a gentleman at a church where I briefly worked, though the church building in the dream was from when I was in grad school. In the dream this Cuban gentleman was at odds with the congregation and the pastor said he had an intuition that I could fix things. I acquired an old coffeepot of the percolator variety, cleaned it and polished it, and went with it to see the gentleman. I told him I had found it and since he was reputed to be the local expert on things coffee I wanted to know how best to use it. Initially skeptical of me in a clerical collar, he perked up (pun intended) at the mention of coffee, took the pot, and proceeded to examine it, muttering that while it looked like a Westinghouse (pronounced âgWestinghouseâ in the dream) it had been made by a German firm and so might be worthy of trying to make coffee. He then took me through a Socratic approach to ascertaining my coffee knowledge, starting with how to turn beans into proper grounds, and was pleased at how close I was on many things (for example, crushing to just the right thickness while the beans were frozen, then grinding with blunt force after the crushed beans were re-frozenâŚ). Finally satisfied with my preparation of the beans, and my choice of fresh rainwater for the pot (!), he proceeded to walk me through the actual coffee-perking.
The humor in this to me is that I havenât dreamed in Spanish (not counting occasional snippets) in years, that I dreamed about coffee since I donât recall ever even discussing it much IRL (where that gentleman and I agreed that the coffee at the church office was mediocre) as my Spanish use was in Bible study and teaching school, and that apparently I remember a lot more Spanish than I thought.
I wouldnât have been surprised at a dream in Spanish where I was speaking at a funeral (actually did that when the pastor had an emergency) or talking about current events (a class I taught to Cuban students), but coffee? Even though I woke up just as we were starting to taste the results of my efforts, I still woke up chuckling.
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So last night I took Knox out and let him pick a spot in the yard. The temperature was already down several degrees below freezing, but the ground was still damp.
Returning to the house requires walking up a wheelchair ramp, which chills quickly since it is exposed to the air both on top and bottom, so it was already below freezing.
The humor is that as I started up the ramp, my right boot almost came off my foot as the moisture on the sole froze to the ramp surface.
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Around here you find signs before every bridge, âWarning: Bridge freezes before roadway.â Which is quite amusing when you see it in a Texas summer.
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Or even in our recent âFalse Spring.â Will PM you to touch base.
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I remember those all over Indiana and Illinois. Decades ago they had such signs here but when climate started to shift and road ice became more rare the signs didnât get replaced as they got damaged or destroyed.
Or when trucking across central Oregon in 100° F weather!
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Why didnât Noah ever fish while he was on the Ark?
âHe only had two worms.
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But there would have been lots of barn flies!
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And the old lamentâwhy didnât he squish those two mosquitoes?
(not forgetting that mosquitoes are much more varied and necessary to ecology than we ever realized.).
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I am not sure about that, even if I am a pro ecologist. The most important insects of the suborder are species that do not suck blood. Bats, some predatory insects and small fish eat blood-sucking mosquitoes but they are usually not the main diet. An exception may be aquatic predatory insects in small ponds where mosquito larvae are the most common prey item. Even in these cases, the loss of blood-sucking mosquitoes would rarely lead to secondary extinctions. The only significant exception would be the parasites that the blood-sucking mosquitoes spread.
If the blood-sucking mosquitoes are rarely needed for the survival of the other species, it raises the question why are there such creatures? I would not blame Adam and Eve, or Noah, for the nuisance.
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Moving from Alabama to New York, we went from âBridge may ice in winterâ past âBridge ices before roadâ to âSnowmobile crossingâ
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My brother in lawâs brother was a ranger in Vermont, and recommended, âBrake for moose. It could save your life!â
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I tried braking when I saw a buck start across the road ahead of me, but I failed to dodge the other five that landed right in front and even on top of my car. âDrive more slowlyâ, I was told, but I already drove as slowly as possible to make the schedule I was stuck with.
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Colliding with deer and reindeer takes time, colliding with a moose even more because when you get 500kg of animal falling on the car, the car probably leaves the place with a tow truck. If you have bad luck, the collapsing roof hits your head, which may stop the journey.
Reindeer are easier to observe than deer because they do not run with as much speed. With them, you learn what slow driving means. Sometimes it is literarily walking speed as the reindeer walk in the middle of the road in front of you and you have to drive behind until the animals understand to move off the road.
I once had to drive even slower when a willow grouse decided to walk in front of the car on a narrow road. Follow the leader play with a really slow leader. Because of the climate change, willow grouse are becoming rare in the southern parts of the country and I did not want to drive over one of the few remaining individuals.
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Where do bad rainbows go?
âTo prism; itâs a relatively light sentence, but they get time to reflect
What is the difference between a dad joke and a kidâs joke?
âTheyâre full groan.
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