It was the scalloped eyelashes that got me. That and the expression, with eyes demurely cast down and a shy smile.
And is that a curled-up moustache and goatee?
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I found a Pinky-Winky video but could not inflict it on you. But the search turned up The Wonky Donkey, first in animated-video form . . .
. . . and then in Granny-reading form. Remember this?
So is this music? No.
Quote of the Week
We have to realize that the child’s world is without economic purpose. A child doesn’t understand – happy ignorance – that people are paid to do things. To a child the policeman rules the street for self-important majesty; the furnace man stokes the furnace because he loves the noise of falling coal and the fun of getting dirty; the grocer is held to his counter by the lure of aromatic spices and the joy of giving. And in this very ignorance there is a grain of truth. The child’s economic world may be the one that we are reaching out in vain to find. Here is a path in the wood of economics that some day might be followed to new discovery. Meantime, the children know it well and gather beside it their flowers of beautiful illusion.
Source:Â On the Front Line of Life by Stephen Leacock; in John Robson's Words Worth Noting
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This one is sort of inspiring, don't you think?
2025 Nov 15 - And I have faced it. We can communicate on this theme.
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I got some new hearing aids, and with them a little charger. When I put the hearing aids into their appropriate slots, the charger looks exactly like the pointy-haired (and incompetent) manager in the Dilbert cartoon strip.
Jim T
Jim T – 🙂 Send photos!
There must be a song in there somewhere.
I see faces,
People’s faces,
I see them in so many strange places
And I’m shocked
Everybody else doesn’t see them too.
Hint: the tune is “I feel pretty.”
Tom
Tom – 🙂 I didn’t even need the hint, which means your writing is spot-on.
It’s Lumiere, from Beauty and the Beast! Escaped one magical enchantment only to be turned into a sconce!
Mary – Of course! I knew it looked familiar.
It’s all in the downcast eyelashes. 😀 Coy.
Barbara – 🙂