There ain’t no fool like an old fool.
I must be missing a word in that saying. It doesn’t accomplish anything. I remember in Sunday school, we were taught
never, ever, never call someone else a ‘fool’ … that calling someone that name
was a terrible sin … I may or may not have asked, “So, calling someone a son of
a ….. is OK?” I was told that curse words
were not invented in Bible days.
I grew up in a house where ‘stupid’ was a bad name. Kind of sheltered but I lived near worldly
neighbors and attended Scouts just to learn dirty jokes.
But, “fool” was never in the jokes. Mostly, Aggie jokes which have somewhat gone
by the wayside. I’m not sure where the
wayside is located, but there is a heck of a lot of stuff there.
I like when people use the word, “shortly”…. “I’ll leave
here shortly…” I also like ‘directly’ when used as a frame of time … I’ll leave
here directly… I’ll solve that problem here shortly and directly …
My goal in life has always been to live long enough so that
when I die, folks can say, ‘he died of old age’… that’s really the only right
reason to die … but I’m not exactly sure of the measurement of old age… if I’m
not already there, I have at least made it to the threshold …
I’m old but I’m not all ‘pull my finger’ old… that’s too old
for anyone’s good ….
I like when I can use the expression, ‘Oh, it’ll all come out
in the wash’… The British say it differently but same sort of meaning … oh, and
I don’t use it when it is really wash day …
Only recently … this year … that I realized that ‘The
Beatles’ were not spelled like the beetle bugs … I really thought that was a weird
name … beetle bugs … but they must mean more like ‘we got the beat, we got the
beat, everybody jump to the beat, jump up, jump back, jump, jump, jump around,
we got the beat…”
So, not all Go-Go fans?
So back to the Beatles, they are Beatle-r’s? They got the beat. I remember dancing in front of the black and
white TV when they appeared on Ed Sullivan show and singing “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”
on the swing set … That began my thinking they were named for bugs, not for musical
beats … Anyway, if you continue to learn new things, you/me remain young … the
spirit of youth … or in my case, the spirit of correcting ignorance …
Paul McCartney is 80.
He performs a 3-hour concert, singing, playing various instruments, no
notes or teleprompter, and is barely winded at the end of the show. I hope someone recorded that concert for a
documentary on Netflix so I can see it … I might dance in front of the TV
again.
So, the word ‘immediately’… in one day’s time, I heard it
pronounced ‘E-mediately’, ‘UH-mediately’, and ‘IN-mediately’ (my favorite, just
to irritate my loved ones in speech therapy careers … others are ‘ex-pecially’
and ‘supposably’….)… even one person pronounced it ‘AM-mediately’ … I answered
to myself ‘IM-mediately’ but not aloud.
But, yep, immediately upon hearing the variations of the word ‘immediately’
pronunciation…
I like words like ‘boon docks’, ‘derelict’, ‘scoot’, ‘run
ragged’, ‘hush’ and ‘hush now’, and ‘hush that crying right now or I’ll give
you something to cry about…’
When people say they have no limitations or they can do
anything in life that they want and ‘if you dream it, it will come true’ … I
guess I roll my eyes a bit … sometimes, the best dreams in life are the simple,
more realistic dreams, the simple dreams of pleasant moments and memories…
I like old houses where the driveway is two lanes of cement
with grassing growing in the middle. Odd
how a driveway can make me happy.
Now, back to me … if someone tells me that I’m valuable and
someone else tells me that I’m invaluable … should I be mad at one of
them?
It’s like a friend says to me every time we meet, “There’s
the infamous Larry Goddard….”… Hey, pal, why does it have to be like that? Just famous LG would suffice … Bonnie and
Clyde were infamous…
I like to say, ‘A mess of fish’… a ‘murder of crows’ (I have
five who are staying on my patio so I hung three of Mom’s dresses outside and
haven’t seen the crows since … kind of scared-the-crows…) with haberdashery.
I like the words ‘no count’ as in “He’s no count”. I like the phrase, “He/She needed killing.” I
like ‘mope’ and ‘moping’ which is not ‘mopping’ but close … I mope whenever I
mop.
The other day, a young girl of about 19 or so was talking to
me and she said ‘Okie Dokie’… I think the words were out of her mouth before her
millennia brain could stop it … she knew I was about to go all sarcastic on her
…
‘Okie Dokie?... is that what you just said? Like we said at the shindig doing the
Charleston and Lindy Hop and drinking Side Cars and saying 23 Skee Do?’ … she
understood nothing but laughed and walked again about to Google search
everything I had just said to her … Okie Dokie??? No, nope, nada, nonononononono,
Oh no shedidn’t… no …
Well, I’m give out… I have a huge stack of my wacky mind
meanderings … they run wild in my head, then I write them… in cursive…. Then actually
type them on a Qwerty Keyboard … and only can release my inner thoughts when I
post on Facebook. Hope that is Okie Dokie
…
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