There won't be any distance from this wryness as I'm quite sure you will grok all of it immediately.
Note: also from Pink and thank you.
GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED
1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats..
2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always Catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food..
6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair..
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandma's lap.
GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jello to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don't hurt.
3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
Note: also from Pink and thank you.
GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED
1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats..
2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always Catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food..
6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair..
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandma's lap.
There's no wryness whatever in deep respect for Adrian Marks, the pilot who landed his PBY at the site of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, one of the most appalling stories of needless Navy death in WWII. I'll skip the details of what happened to those sailors since the story is widely-known and as horribly awful as anyone could imagine.
Lieutenant Adrian Marks disobeyed orders and landed his PBY where he stayed to accompany those sailors through their last night in the water and he was instrumental in saving many of them, most of them likely having given up hope after three days in the shark-infested water that help would ever come.
How about an example of gigantic brass balls from someone you may have never guessed possessed them. I did know this previously regarding Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart and Pink confirmed he also carries that respect for him because the man who gave us "It's a Wonderful Life" flew twenty combat missions over NAZI Germany. However, I did not know he also flew one over Vietnam.
How about a flip back to wryness so we're clear on the differentiation.
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jello to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don't hurt.
3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
Note: in my family, I'm generally regarded as the 'nut' but I've not noticed as I've grown the sprouting of any oak leaves. They may yet come.
How about women welders working for Lincoln to build cars in 1918.
Auto workers in the United States fought and gave blood to unionize years later, often being beaten by corporate goons who tried to break their strike lines. Their sacrifice gave us the United Auto Workers union and you can help today's effort to break its back through the purchase of a Toyota.
(Ed: that wasn't too wry!)
Nah, that was spitting square in the face of those who do buy such vehicles as many do that knowing full well Toyota is a union buster, in effect just another corporate goon but with a prettier face.
Flipping back to wry ... I knew Grace Hopper did the seminal work in creation of the COBOL compiler, one of the most vital pieces of business software the world has ever seen. We did know the fantastically beautiful Hedy Lamarr is one of the most brilliant women one could ever hope to meet and she was instrumental in the co-invention of some high-level technology used by the military and ultimately for WiFi.
However, we did not know the game of Monopoly was invented by a woman, Elizabeth Magie.
How about a comparison of various views of the beaches used for the D-Day invasion as seen in WWII and the same view now. (Chicago Tribune: Tour D-Day in France, June 6th, 1944, then and now D-Day + 70)
The only way you will die on that beach now is if you're attacked by sand fleas, wrecked by skin cancer, or eaten by Marine le Pen, the same type of far right demon which was killing the soldiers seventy years ago.
That's as political as I'm willing to get with this one as the point is wryness and hopefully this has delivered for you. Thanks again, Pink.
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