Author: NDExile

Did you ever think about the words we use to construct what it is that we say?

We choose the words, then sequence them in a rather particular way.

The words in a phrase can change its meaning, if shuffled or conjugated.

Having the effect to diminish impact, or conversely make it overrated.

In the example that follows the verbs do a switch, you might say a virtual about face:

“Is that man racing for a train – or – is he training for a race?”

The following phrase you may have heard, while hanging out in a cabana.

“Time flies like an arrow . . . Fruit flies like a banana.“

One sentence’s verb, in another, transforms to become a noun.

Certainly not a practice upon which one should readily frown.

Choosing words sometimes seems laborious, but there are times when it’s rather fun.

Let us now consider wordplay that employs double-meaning, the pun.

• “I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger… then it hit me.”
• “I’m inclined to be laid back.”
• “I used to work at a calendar factory, but I got fired for taking a couple of days off.”

I bring to an end this babble, with an oxymoron, without defiance.

Grab a jumbo shrimp and enjoy the deafening sound of silence!!

There was a young Parisian Police Cadet, long, long ago. 

Despite bumbling escapades, we saw his career grow.

Competence he seldom demonstrated,

Yet to a lofty position he was elevated.

 We know him as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau .

He was successful through accidental luck.

His superiors were often thunderstruck. 

To the highest level of incompetence he did grow. 

Firmly settling in on Peter’s Plateau. 

Consider what I am about to say, please listen objectively. 

Let us discourse on the phenomenon known as Sunk Cost Fallacy. 

Some argue it is the definition of insanity, “can you imagine mature adults, 

Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results.”

This occurrence is categorized as a systematic error in thinking, a cognitive bias, some might say. 

It ignores future utility in favor of justifying the expenditures we made yesterday.

It is frequently classified as irrational behavior, the actions of one gone mad.

My father’s generation aptly phrased it,”throwing good money after bad.”

There was a young man from Racine.

An avid fan of Steve McQueen. 

Movies Bullitt and Nevada Smith;

He was thoroughly enthralled with.

‘King of Cool’ was the scene. 

There was a young man from Fargo,

Wondering, “How far can an EV car go?”

Leaving home in the morning, 

Under a thunderstorm warning, 

A lightening strike launched him into Ohio!! 

. . . All About Business

There was a young ghoul from Dunkirk,

His lactose craving drove him berserk.

He heard it in a dream, 

“Go visit the ‘Scary Queen’.”

Ate a Sundae on his way to work.

There was a young man from College Station. 

He was observing a Lemming migration. 

The entire herd met its demise. 

But it comes as no surprise.

The critters don’t use an app for navigation.