Small things 27 August

• Don't give up caring, or being kind, because others have. The world needs people like you.
• It's a good thing they picked horses to measure power in vehicles, because it would sound much lamer if you were bragging that your car had 42 elephantpower.
• Overdraft fee industry: $11 billion annually. Cheque cashing industry: $36 billion. Pay Day Loan industry: $9 billion. It's the socioeconomic equivalent of beating up crippled people.
• Saying climate change isn't human-made is like finding out you have cancer as a smoker and blaming it on your genes.
  
  
  
• I have a joke about construction. I'm still working on it.
• Movie idea: Dolly Parton and Elvira play estranged sisters who have to team up to fight evil together.
• Dear UK: "Ladybug!" Not ladybird. Not a bird. Bug.
• The look on my 13 year old granddaughter's face when I said, "Let's blow this popsicle stand!"
• Man trap: When your wife uses the word mansplaining incorrectly. Don't take the bait.
• "Who wants my leftover bacon?" ~said nobody ever
• If you choked on an apple are you pretty much screwed unless you get a paramedic?
• You're being asked to wear a mask, not a Nickelback t-shirt....
• Is it possible that some folks don't take hurricanes seriously because of their soft names?
• The point of golf is to play the least amount of golf possible. (That's a classic)