Would you buy a yard (of anything) from this “man”?
Does this mean that all the best buys have already been “picked clean”?
Category Archives: Photo Finish Friday
Photo finish Friday: “Bone to pick”
Unable to go to sleep before a big anatomy test, the veterinary student got up and mapped out the horse bones … on the side of a horse.
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Photo finish Friday: “Half of it”
Sometimes, a relationship just doesn’t hold together.
The man in the waders
by David E. Booker
The man in waders
met the woman in half.
When others saw them,
they thought they were daft.
They met at the creek,
down by the water’s edge.
It was a salvage operation
of the heart it is said.
She could not say
where her lower half went.
Like a little mermaid
she was half woman, half rent.
The relationship didn’t last.
Alas it is said,
the fact she had no bottom
went straight to his head.
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Photo finish Friday: “The caper”
Somebody’s hoppin’ mad … or crazy.
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Photo finish Friday: “Pitch in”
It takes a village to mulch a park.
Pick up a pitch fork and come pitch in.
Bring a rake — we’ll show where to begin.
Bring a wheelbarrow to move stuff around;
there are weeds to pull and mulch to lay down.
From 2 to 4 come down to ONK park.
We’ll work some, but not up to dark.
Stop by on Sunday with your pair of gloves
and show this little park a lot of love.
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Photo finish Friday: “Decor”
Brad looked over at Jim. Brad was holding his sixth beer in one hand and paint brush covered in pink paint in the other. “I think it blends right in, don’t you?”
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Photo finish Friday: “Symbolic”
Buddha on a plate.
There is a Buddhist saying that if you are a Buddhist and you are you meet Buddha on the road, kill him. This is an old koan (Buddhist parable) is attributed to Zen Master Linji, (the founder of the Rinzai sect).
It is not to be taken literally. The three elements: road, killing, and Buddha are symbolic. The road is the road the Buddhist is traveling toward enlightenment. The Buddha is whatever concept of Buddha he or she might be carrying. That concept is wrong, a false idol, if you will, and to kill it is to ditch (by the symbolic roadside) that false concept as part of the road to enlightenment.
But it does bring up an interesting corollary. To wit: if you find Buddha sitting on your plate, are you supposed to (symbolically) eat him?
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Photo finish Friday: “Bridge to nowhere”
Another wrong turn.
She came down to the bridge to end it all, to jump off into the cold March waters. To feel her weight and the weight of her burdens become weightless as the water lapped over her in one last shivering embrace. Then she saw that the bridge was closed. The pylons and arches were there, but the platform was gone. There was nowhere to jump from. She sighed. It was just another in all the wrong turns in her life, and like all the others, she would just have to learn to live with it.
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Photo finish Friday: “Won’t last”
Bear and Skeleton talk about their relationship.
They said it wouldn’t last. Friends, neighbors, even strangers on the street when asked would immediately react to the announcement that a skeleton was dating a stuffed bear. Often with disbelieving looks and the wry comment: “It won’t last.”
But thus far, the relationship has held together and so has Skeleton.
“Oh, sure, we’ve sometimes had a bone to pick with each other,” Bear said.
“But it never got so bad, we couldn’t bear it,” Skeleton said, finishing the bear’s thoughts as couples often do.
They sometimes still get hate mail or calls in the middle of the night where the caller yells something hateful and then hangs up. Once a woman walked up to them in public and said they should be hanging out with their own kind.
“But we are,” said Bear. “We are hanging out with those that care.”
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