No, I didn’t see another large spider. (Well, not yet. You’ll be the second to know, right after the person nearest me when I scream.) Reader John sent along this photo, and I thought it provided a nice finish (?) to the discussion.
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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2023 Dec 01
Tweet of the Week
This Japanese technique to fold shirts in 2 seconds seems to find a secret topology hidden inside clothes
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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 1, 2023
The Week’s Best Example of Making Merry
Q&A Time: Finding the humor in ripped paper. 🤣😂🤣@seawells68 asks why babies take such delight in seeing paper get ripped?
And it’s true, there are videos all over the Internet of babies breaking into fits of laughter as their parents tear up paper in their presence.
The… https://t.co/7xoPgpi5H0 pic.twitter.com/cnuRiXCz1U
— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori) November 29, 2023
Music of the Week
Posted: 2023 Dec 01
Poetry of the Week
And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.- Lines from Four Quartets by TS Eliot; quoted in Things Worth Remembering, by Douglas Murray
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Someone had a sense of humour. In a crisis (see your previous post). There’s something indomitable about being able to find something to laugh at when your world has fallen apart around you. I watched a house, a home, slide down a bank and into one of those raging rivers, recently — a video taken by the owners. What do you do? Laugh? Cry? I probably can’t call this “black humour” any more, but at least it’s a healthy response.
Jim T
Jim T – Or maybe it was a neighbourhood smart-aleck. Who knows? Not bring directly affected by the disaster is a great help as far as finding humour goes.
Haahaahaahaahaa! Good laugh on a grey day. Thanks
Judith – 🙂 IKR?
Awesomely wonderful. Or is it “The lengths some people will go to for a joke!”
Laurna – Both, maybe. 🙂