Serendipity & Humor

 

What better image to begin a post on humor and serendipity??? A Doxie Cake!

** A Copenhagen, Denmark, neighborhood is named after what once lay under the ground: potatoes. Called Kartoffelraekkeerne, which means "Potato Row," this area was named for the crop grown on the land in the 1800s. Homes on Potato Row nowadays command high prices.

** Did you know China owns, OWNS, al but two of the pandas in the world (Mexico owns the other two) and loans them to zoos, sanctuaries, and breeding centers in other countries. Remember that when you visit those darling bears next time.

** What is a merswine?  (A dolphin or porpoise)

** What U.S. state is known as the Sunflower State?  (Kansas)

**What does the acronym "yuppie" stand for? (young urban professional0

** What mountain range is also the name of a breed of dog?  (Pyrenees)

** According to the International Playing Card Society and other researchers, the kings in a deck of cards are thought to be David, King of Israel (spades), Alexander the Great (clubs), Charlemagne, King of France (hearts) and Caesar Augustus (diamonds).  (Remember that when you audition for Jeopardy.)

** Do you have mageirocophobia???   Sometimes I do!  This is a fear of cooking. (Gosh, there is a word for everything.)

** What did Barbie do when she directed the hens in a play? Barbie cued them.

**Art Conger,  retired policeman who now lives in Spokane, in his younger days lived in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. He took a "room for rent" in a house with two 90-year-old sisters, who had lived there for 70 years. Soon, the building owner told Art that the sisters were being moved and he was going to offer the state $250 for all the stuff the women left behind. Art promptly went downtown and paid $50 for all the house contents, thereby usurping the owner. Art rented a dumpster and got busy.  To shorten the longer story (which appeared in our Spokesman Review, 30 June 2022), Art ended up with a 16-inch bronze vase, circled by a five-clawed dragon,  dated authoritatively back to the Ming dynasty in the 1400s. No price was stated for the vase, but one can imagine that it is priceless.  (Moral: you never know what you'll find once you start looking.)

**Our near neighbor, Montana, became a state on 8 Nov 1889, two days before Washington became a state. Montana is the 4th largest start; nickname is Treasure State; state animal is the Grizzly Bear; state bird is the Western Meadowlark...... and there is a state butterfly, fish, flower, grass, tree, fossil and gemstone. Can you name them???

** Villains twirl their moustaches and are easy to spot. Villains who are camouflaged are harder to see and more often fool us."  (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, TV's Star Trek)

** If a tomato is a fruit, is ketchup a smoothie?????