Triviality #1: Most everyone is familiar with Nostradamus. But few realize that he had a prognosticating half-brother called Nostrildamus, who divined the future using exclusively his sense of smell.
He sniffed the Medieval air and predicted that an orange-faced buffoon would narcotize the masses with an unrelenting profusion of lies to thus conquer Greenland, where he would build a fortress from fool’s gold for his retinue of siliconed strippers, ne’er-do-wells, neo-Nazis, and former FOX News hosts. Eat your heart out, Jimmy the Greek! (collaboration with ChatGPT)
Triviality #2: I am working on a novel theory called “The Law of Conservation of Shaving Cream and Its Broader Implications on the Future of Mankind.” Submissions are pending review at Science, The Economist, and The Onion. Watch this space.
A vintage ad showing that ah-ha moment in the life of a discriminating shaver. The secret here is “dual use” and Listerine was way ahead of its time in that regard — you can gargle the rinse or shave with the backwash, your choice. Or for the ladies (bottom right) as a shampoo!
Triviality #3: A surefire sign of rising inflation is when panhandlers are no longer asking for pocket change (who carries coins anymore?), but are now gunning rather specifically for hand-outs of $5.00 and $10.00. I mean, seriously??
And if their watch is nicer than yours, then just no.This dude looks like Bradley Cooper, who frankly comes off mostly as a douche, IMO, which is probably why he’s so believable in that type of role (with ChatGPT).
That’s all the wisdom I have for now. What’s great about a blog is that now I have a central repository for all my stupid jokes and inane ideas, which used to exist only on the back of some envelope or on torn bits of scrap paper (which I still keep, BTW).
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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Great Exudations 