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The Daily Reflections
of Jan Cox

 

When he saw that headline, a man said to himself:
"When EVER someone is killed by a hippopotamus it's under 'suspicious circumstances!'"
And he is correct inthat once the intellectual-talking-circuit
takes note of such an event, and then comments thereon,
it will always seem to establish "suspicious circumstances."

(In truth, the headline is not so much about a hippopotamus killing a man, as it is about the human circuitry responsible for the headline.)

 

 

A man asked a mystic:
"Which is more fun, being awake or thinking about it?"
and the mystic replied:
"I'm glad you didn't ask which is the easiest!"

And the man then asked:
"Well, which is the easiest: being awake
or thinking about it?" and the mystic replied:
"I'm glad you didn't ask which is the most fun!"

 

Fitness Report:
The body and so-called emotions
get their exercise
through the performance
of their daily duties;
the intellect gets its by--
running in place.

 

 

There were three little birds in a nest,
and when their mother would fly in to feed them,
she would do so in a certain manner: first
she'd feed one of the chicks, then it would pass
along part of its food to the one beside it,
then that one in turn would give a portion of the food
it received to the third chick.
(Being last in line doesn't necessarily mean you won't get fed, it just means--in one particular circumstance--that you learn to subsist on food you can't touch.)

A boy asked his father:
"Who do you love best, me or one of my two brothers?"
and in reply the elder: kicked him in the shin, slapped his face, and punched him in the stomach, while screaming threats and curses at him, immediately followed by a detailed explanation as to why the boy should not take any of it personally! (....an effort that ALMOST succeeded!
Right up to the moment when the lad suddenly realized
what-was-going-on.)