I am the 1%
Postage stamp collectors are 90% male and 99% conservative.
Bon mots
Dumbocracy
We’ve tried Anocracy, Aristocracy, Autocracy, Democracy, Gerontocracy, Ochlocracy, Plutocracy, Theocracy. Can we try Meritocracy now please?
Cockatoo dreaming
To White Cockatoos, Black Cockatoos must seem the stuff of nightmares. To Black Cockatoos, White Cockatoos must seem the ghosts of ancestors.
Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
Sixty million years ago, the dinosaurs had a saying – “as rare as a toothless hen.”
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Practice makes perfect
Being forgotten, while you are still in land of the living, prepares you for being forgotten, after you are long gone.
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Early days
It takes a whole lifetime, three score years and ten, or more, to get clear in your mind the structure and the meaning of your childhood years. You never get the time to sort out the rest of your life.
Drip, drip, drip
As we grow older small invisible pores form in our skulls and from them (like holes in water tanks) drip thoughts and ideas, and memories of recent times (being closer to surface of the mind), and wit and concentration, and names of people once known like brothers and sisters, and new appointments, and old research
Knuckling down
When I was just a soft boy child I would take my bag of marbles, bought sparingly with well earned pocket money, to the schoolyard and lose them all to boys with hard knuckles and much harder eyes. Was it a lesson for adult life? Yes but I failed to learn from it.