Some days, he would just sit and look out at the world. He wanted nothing more than to finally be alone to finally be himself. But he feared casting aside his family. For though the constant demands were exhausting, there was a comfort in the buzzing busyness and weight of the certainness of expectation.
So he watched and waited, wanting a world that would never be his.
An man from Abdera is dreaming about a pig he’s selling. He is asking 100 denarii for it, but people are only offering 50. Eventually, he wakes up. Keeping his eyes closed, he holds out his hand and says ‘OK, I’ll take me the 50’.
Usually, my underwater shots in zoos are made through the glass of an aquarium. This presents certain challenges, but I think I’ve gotten good at it. Once in a long while, I am allowed to put my camera directly in the water.
This koi was a bit puzzled as to what I was doing.
No, to my cabin.
These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!
Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
To these great fellows: sound and be hang’d, sound out!
This takin thinks we need a compromise on the whole daylight savings time debate and proposes that we just set the clocks back one hour every six months.
Then everyone gets to sleep in and no one loses time.
I was going to make a joke here about dunking biscuits in tea.
Then I found that Wikipedia has an article specifically on this topic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunking_(biscuit) ), and that fact alone is funnier than anything I could come up with.