- Nursery rhyme truth #10: There are easier ways to eat pie besides using one's thumb, but no more satisfying.
- One person's disorder is another person's chaos.
- Just because it is gum doesn't mean it should be chewed.
Bits of Nonsense Come in Threes
Original trivia, non sequiturs, and quotes. Brockeim brings to you what doesn't matter about coffee, God (not?), poetry, books and chocolate.
November 11, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #10 (Pie Hole Strategy), Chaotic Order, Chewed Gum
November 10, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #9 (Ribbing at Home), Order in the Math, Beauty
- Nursery rhyme truth 9: Architecture matters. Ask the two plates of pork ribs at the wolf's house.
- #7 and #8... who made the rule that they must come in that order? (a typo caused my earlier error, for those following such things)
- More is beautiful than we acknowledge.
November 09, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #8 (Background Checks), Foolishly Objective, Lazy Bellowing
- Nursery rhyme truth 8: Little is known about the woodsman. Someone should look into his background.
- We have faith in things we speculate and theorize, and call those who speculate and theorize about other things fools, pretending objectivity.
- Roses are yellow,
so are daisies,
I thought I'd bellow,
feeling quite lazy.
November 06, 2009
Nurset Rhyme Truth #7 (Sordid Red), John's Cake, Indulging Friends
- Nursery rhyme truth 7: Little Red Riding has a sordid past, and her history carrying cookies is dubious, at best. Let's just say she's not so little anymore and we are out of cookies.
- Johnny cakes? Is this some red light district euphemism?
- Dessert with the right person may be simple, yet an indulgence. Indulge often.
November 05, 2009
Coffee Mug About Coffee and Books and Food (All at Once)

Books are good food.
Wash them down with coffee.
Buy now
...just an ad to entice you to buy a mug so I can afford coffee...
Great Christmas gift for that coffee bookworm sort at work
Great Christmas gift for that coffee bookworm sort at work
Nursery Rhyme Truth #6 (Woody), Breathing Dentists, Rhyming Garbage
- Nursery rhyme truth 6: When entering a woody area, if the trees start talking, be afraid. It will probably be a bad day.
- One of four dentists breath while doing a tooth extraction... just as do the other three of four. The same cannot necessarily be said of the patient.
- Not everything that rhymes is poem.
November 04, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #5 (Glossolalia), Ughing, Voting into Freedom
- Nursery rhyme truth 5: Fee fi fo fum is not 'speaking in tongues'. Glossolalia? More like giant la la la.
- Though' ends in 'ugh', which is sometimes apropos.
- Voting is just the start of freedom.
November 03, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #4 (Wolfy), Tuesday's Blues, 2-6ing the List
- Nursery rhyme truth 4: A wolf is never the good guy.
- Tuesday never gets the credit it deserves.
- Seeing The Bucket List
is not on my bucket list.
November 02, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #3 (Mirrors), Facts and Truths, Walling Ceilings
- Nursery rhyme truth 3: Mirrors which talk should not be trusted.
- What counts as fact is one thing, but what counts as truth is another. One is negotiable.
- Who is more important? The guy who invented walls, or the guy who invented ceilings?
October 30, 2009
Nursery Rhyme Truth #2, Greetings, Earthling, Brownie Equality
- Nursery rhyme truth 2: Avoid anyone offering free apples, seeds or berries.
- Who first suggested a visitor from another planet would say, "Greetings, Earthling"?
- Not all brownies are created equally.
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