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A can't-fail phrase maker to assist those hordes of fellow countrymen who couldn't contrive the right word to grace a “Stop” sign.
Create your own tabloid teaser by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: POPE BITES DWARF
Name a sure-fire country music band by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: Kentucky River Jihad.
Create a character even Tennessee Williams might have despised by selecting one name from each column, moving left to right. Any combination will sound like a Texas songwriter.
Example: Ronnie Bob Synapse
Start that book you’ve always wanted to write by creating an irresistible title. Simply select one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: Against Another Moon
Pinpoint your pain precisely by choosing one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: severely throbbing earlobes.
Exercise your most basic political right—name-calling—by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: “Our president (or mayor or senator) is an oafishly self-serving manipulator.”
You, too, can sound as authoritative as those guys on “Car Talk.” Create the name of a mystifying “mechanical problem” by selecting any one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: twisted piston flange
Create a ritzy new real-estate development by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: Golden Mill Heights
Spice up those ordinary recipes with some tasty verbal seasoning. Create a fancy name for your ho-hum recipe by selecting any one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: Granny’s Cornflake Ecstasy.
But I cherish these aimless hands and remember the otherworldly ecstasy of holding them the first time.
I beg her forgiveness, serve her breakfast and try to catch a millisecond nap while she eats and watches the “Today” show's glib answers to all human problems.
Later, she awakens again and asks me to sit with her. She tells me she never feels good. As I try to discover why, the elliptical phrases start-- “I want to . . . ,” “I wish we could . . .,” “Where are . . . .” They are tantalizing thoughts she never completes.
Norma slept late again today, staying abed long past the prescribed time for her arsenal of medications.
The main reason I want Norma to sleep as long as she can is that our normal days are filled with nothing much but sitting.
In the years that followed, Norma and I would each accommodate and respect the other's “parallel loves.”
“Those who do not learn history,” we are told, “are doomed to repeat it.” Implicit in this saying is that if we do learn from the pitfalls of history, we can avoid falling into them now.” How's that working out?
No one becomes wealthy on his own. It always requires the labor of others.
In an unregulated economy, the profits from the sale of goods and services can be divided virtually any way the owners of the enterprise choose.
People who have the power that the wealth we’ve created gives them will not surrender it gladly.
In the sea of economic distress we’re all floating on these days, a fortunate few are riding out the storm in well-provisioned yachts while the rest of us are desperately testing the buoyant properties of kelp.
Just imagine what a system focused solely on profit would do to you if Big Government didn’t stand in its way.
About Ed
As a writer, Morris has had articles published in Advertising Age, TV Guide, McCall’s, Hollywood Reporter, Salon, Amusement Business, Book Page, The Journal Of Country Music, The Mother Earth News, Baltimore Sun, BackStage, Bluegrass Unlimited, New Country, Tune In and elsewhere. He has been a correspondent for Advertising Age and was a columnist for International Musician and Music City News.
Morris is also author of the play The Passion of Ethel Rosenberg.
Create your own indispensable gadget by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.
Example: Pocket Eggplant Compacter