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TALKING BACK IS GOOD!
March 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments
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1 John James // Nov 2, 2008 at 11:55 am
Hello Don,
Your column of 10/31 amply displays your wit and perspicuity. Or your perspicuity and wit, whichever. I’m encouraged to send along a few questions and comments for your possible delectation, as follows:
Candidates for office high and low spend hours and hours making speeches and pressing flesh, travel miles and miles and suffer indignities without number. Why do they do it? Is it the pension plan?
Exactly how long is a “moment”?
What is history’s greatest invention? I’d have to say, the mute button.
Who invented the apostrophe?
Which side of his mouth does Dick Cheney chew on?
Who decided that the plural of ‘moose’ should be…’moose’, while the plural of goose is geese? And then there’s flooce and fleece.
Who splits split peas?
(trad.) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck….etc.
To “humanize” the story, newspaper articles often start off with something like, “When the glacier in his backyard melted and flooded his house, Wendell Walleye knew that global warming was real.” But, how do they find the Wendell Walleye’s? Is there a clearing house (Woe and Wonder Central) where reporters can go to find someone to put a face on their story?
In hugging, is the hug more intimate with back patting or without back patting?
What is the percentage of all American adults now playing “real people” in TV ads?
Who gives prescription drugs those weird names – flabbaglabin, crokmoxin, yrglpt, etc? A committee of Elbonians?
I read in the paper the wolves are back in Oregon. I knew that. I heard one the other day. He went, “Hubba Hubba! Hey baby, where you been all my life?” And I knew. The wolves are back in Oregon.
What ever happened to the necker’s knob?
When is it a “movie” and when is it a “film”?
What’s the difference between ‘Pastor’ So-and-so, and ‘The Reverend’ So-and-so? Which one is tighter with the Big Guy Up There ?
Yesterday I was over on the campus and I saw a young woman who was NOT talking on a cell phone. Should I have reported that?
Is a “wetland” really just an upscale swamp?
Here’s a thought – the bonnie Ms. Bettman is the Mikey of Eugene politics, cuz she hates everything.
Driving around town I see people at the bus stops smoking. Is that required?
Randy Newman has the answer for people with underachieving slacker kids. Rent Korean parents.
And now, a few lessons from history:
The war will always last longer than expected.
The levee will always break.
It will always cost more than they say it will
Most experts don’t know s%$t from shinola.
A-a-a-nd…that’s all folk.
2 Eve King-Lehman // Nov 27, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi DK,
It was enjoyable to hear you on the radio addressing the City Club of Eugene. You mentioned some mottos you live by. I found them good, but unfamiliar. So, I’ve forgotten them and would like to be reminded. I don’t see them posted. Please send me an email with them or a link to them. Thanks, others might like them too. Here are a couple that have stayed with me: 1. Take care of your tools, because when you want them, they will be there to take care of you. Also, substitute “friends” for “tools”. 2. Business B4 Pleasure, then when we have fun, our minds will be free and unencumbered by nagging conscience. -Cheers, Eve
3 Bill from Trinity // Dec 6, 2008 at 10:56 am
Don,
I tried leaving you a short note on the Socializer web site, but have no idea how that works. So I Googled you and got this blog. I’d love to hear from you.
4 Katy // Jan 21, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Regarding your thot [sic: thought] of the day. There is plenty of diversity in Eugene, OR if one is “wide-minded” enough to not limit it to racial factors. Cultural, philosophic and thought diversity are abundant. You are one of the most diverse thinkers I know.
Love Katy
5 bill // Jan 30, 2009 at 11:27 am
Your humor is of mindful of a sanitized George Carlin. The ability to take another twist on ordinary things and make them funny. You are a great addition to the Guard.
6 zach // Jan 30, 2009 at 4:06 pm
In the RG today you say the parks people want a roundabout due to heavy bike traffic. I disagree about their motivation for the roundabout. It is clear that the parks people have been infiltrated by the “architectural cult” known as the Congress for the New Urbanism. That group (CNU) builds expensive roundabouts in a roundabout way which bypasses public input and budget limitations. Common sense is also not part of their “vision”. New urbanist planning is referred to as “toon town urbanism” by some critics because it is based on the Disneyland-like main street formula. If you saw the movie”The Truman Show” you know what the ideal new urban community looks like. Have a good weekend.
7 zach // Feb 8, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I appreciated your recent column on alternatives for city hall. That is a good conversation to stir. This Saturday at the city council workshop councilor Mike Clark had some very brilliant comments about a cost effective solution for a new city hall that would likely draw widespread public approval. He said we should replace it city hall by fixing up EWEBs existing administration building . Sure, the starchitects will not like that idea but I think the public would see the aesthetic and fiscal wisdom of it. “Return to the river” instead of “ruin the river”. “Reuse Eugene” instead of “Recycle Eugene”. Otto Poticha once had this extremely brilliant comment(he has many) about the document titled the Eugene Downtown Plan. He said “This is not a plan-this is a parking ticket” in a very dismissive tone. Those are words I will remember for a long time. Idea for a future column from you….the details of what Otto may have meant by that. Thanks for spurring more conversation about architecture in Eugene. There is not enough now for us to enjoy a well-planned public realm.
8 ronfunke // Feb 10, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Re: Downtown & City Hall
Your column last Friday (2/6/09) was a brilliant dissection of the conflicting needs and opinions concerning our downtown’s future.
I particularly enjoy thinking oft the prospect of Eugene’s “No At All Costs!” community non-profit organizations and individuals residing in the basement of the current City Hall.
Ron
9 Rees Maxwell // Mar 25, 2009 at 4:15 am
Hey Don,
Glad to see you’re still havin’ fun!
I’d love to email ya .. but lost your email address. Don’t see a way to contact you privately here, so this is the best I can do. Send me a message and I’ll send you a comic I found recently that features YOU.
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