Fit for a stamp

A relaxing view in Des Peres Park, June 2015:

I think it would make a good postage stamp, as well.

"In tonight's double standard sports roundup..."

During my years as a sports data collector, it amused me when a coach would attempt to make his or her team's stats look more flattering by crediting a volleyball team with far more assists than plausible, not recording errors in baseball or softball or cards in soccer because "we don't need to get into that," or giving their batters hits they didn't actually have "to encourage them."

I used to think but not tell such coaches, "I might think that a hitter should have four strikes instead of three before being called out, but the game isn't played that way."  Or, as one co-worker said sarcastically, "I think that one point should count as two for my team!"

If I'd planned to go anywhere...

...I'm sure I postponed getting up from the sofa.  After all, when a cat is this comfy...

April 2006: Rosie, fast asleep, with a paw draped over me to make sure I don't get up soon.

Finishing the sentence CXXX

Sometimes, the simplest unfinished sentences elicited the widest range of answers.  Previously, I've shared some of the answers this unfinished sentence elicited in high school.  Now, here are some of the answers it elicited in college, more specifically in April 1992:

Maybe...

..."someday...saved by zero..." (The Fixx's "Saved By Zero," quoted by David R.)

...the idea of war will be obsolete someday instead of being seen as the only alternative to dealing with aggressive nations. (Erica C.)

...everyone will one day be nice and fair to each other, and everything will be peaceful and happy, and bunnies will hop around merrily.  (I'm idealistic.) (Jenni S.)

Finishing the sentence CXXIX

Here's another round of responses to one of my unfinished sentences from December 1991:

Contrary to popular belief...

...the moon is farther away.  (Eric S.)

...two wrongs do not make a wrong in all instances but often make a right.  The key is to never generalize a facetious principle (when applying it) to every facet of one's life. (Brian W.)

...blood does show up on my red car. (Janet L.)

...you can never stop being a kid. (Mary C.)

...foreign culture is the American way of life. (Colin S.)

...graduating as an English major will get me a high-paying, well-respected job.  (At least, I hope so!) (Virginia R.)

A linguistic irritant XLIII

I despise the expression, "Finders keepers, losers weepers."  Whenever someone says that, I think, "That's just an expression, not a mandate!"

Preparing new exhibits

Museum curator Sammy oversees material for new exhibits in August 2004:

Although it might go without saying, Sammy was also a watchcat for his own museum.