Ray's Thought for the Day
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. See what happens when I aint around to hep. Crumby fergot to insert les blanc index card between the sedge and the newspaper in the previous picture. Ha! Too bad that's a real old specimen and Crumby pressed it in a sheet of what passes fer the daily newspaper in these parts. Later he switched to the Austin Chronicle cause ye don't have to tear the sheets in half with it. Plus ye get lots more usable sheets per paper. Also, ye may get to read the personal ads er look at naughty pictures while yer workin' on the collection.
But now I'd like to share with everyone my greatest technological achievement, ever. First, here's some background that leads up to my greatest technological achievement ever. When I was a mere baby, and together with my very smart sister Rayetta, was workin' in Dr. Swineherd's herbarium, I would always lose my teasing needles. Dr. Swineherd would get aggravated with me because I would be whinin' and snufflin' around and I would also have bad fidgetin' events. Then Dr. Swinehered would have to take a plant press strap to me, to bring me to my senses. And Rayetta would get in trouble too, cause she'd loan me her teasing needles sometimes, and I'd lose her's too.
So one mornin' of the wee hours I was sittin' there, chained to my little chair with a great stack of specimen sheets afore me and no teasing needle to be found. And I started to whine and snuffle and fidget, but the WG had pity on me due to my miserable condition and She says to me, Ray, sugar, search around and ye may espy materials ready to hand that will allow ye to construct a teasing needle.
All righty then. I brightened up at that moment, as anyone would, havin' received special notice from the WG. So I began to think real hard and remembered that Rayetta had some sewin' needles taped under her little chair that she sometimes used to sew up the worst rents in our lab smocks. So I stretched and stretched from where I was chained in my chair until I could just barely reach under Rayetta's chair. Aha. Got em.
But a needle, though better than nothin', aint very handy for teasin' achenes out of peryginia, and I thought to myself, I require a handle, fer it. So I started lookin' around fer a handle fer the needle and it warnt long before I espied my Pentel mechanical pencil. Now in those long ago days, Pentel mechanical pencils only ever worked so long as the lead that came with em was not used up. They never worked with replacement lead fer some reason. So cause I had used up all the original lead, my pencil didn't work. About that time I thought to myself, reckon I could get a needle to go where the lead goes normally in that there Pentel mechanical pencil.
All righty then. After some minor experimentin' I discovered that lo and behold if ye got the right size needle in the pencil ye had the perfect adjustable teasing needle. So that's my greatest technological achievement ever and how it was discovered and developed. A picture of my greatest technological achievement is nearby.
But now I'd like to share with everyone my greatest technological achievement, ever. First, here's some background that leads up to my greatest technological achievement ever. When I was a mere baby, and together with my very smart sister Rayetta, was workin' in Dr. Swineherd's herbarium, I would always lose my teasing needles. Dr. Swineherd would get aggravated with me because I would be whinin' and snufflin' around and I would also have bad fidgetin' events. Then Dr. Swinehered would have to take a plant press strap to me, to bring me to my senses. And Rayetta would get in trouble too, cause she'd loan me her teasing needles sometimes, and I'd lose her's too.
So one mornin' of the wee hours I was sittin' there, chained to my little chair with a great stack of specimen sheets afore me and no teasing needle to be found. And I started to whine and snuffle and fidget, but the WG had pity on me due to my miserable condition and She says to me, Ray, sugar, search around and ye may espy materials ready to hand that will allow ye to construct a teasing needle.
All righty then. I brightened up at that moment, as anyone would, havin' received special notice from the WG. So I began to think real hard and remembered that Rayetta had some sewin' needles taped under her little chair that she sometimes used to sew up the worst rents in our lab smocks. So I stretched and stretched from where I was chained in my chair until I could just barely reach under Rayetta's chair. Aha. Got em.
But a needle, though better than nothin', aint very handy for teasin' achenes out of peryginia, and I thought to myself, I require a handle, fer it. So I started lookin' around fer a handle fer the needle and it warnt long before I espied my Pentel mechanical pencil. Now in those long ago days, Pentel mechanical pencils only ever worked so long as the lead that came with em was not used up. They never worked with replacement lead fer some reason. So cause I had used up all the original lead, my pencil didn't work. About that time I thought to myself, reckon I could get a needle to go where the lead goes normally in that there Pentel mechanical pencil.
All righty then. After some minor experimentin' I discovered that lo and behold if ye got the right size needle in the pencil ye had the perfect adjustable teasing needle. So that's my greatest technological achievement ever and how it was discovered and developed. A picture of my greatest technological achievement is nearby.
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, March 12, 2006
2 Comments:
Pretty good idea. what if you fergit and try to write with it?
It won't write very well. But fer some reason, I never lose these. This is only the second one I ever had to make.
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