It might be helpful to face this very frightening new year with some humor. Words can be hurtful, depressing, sad, or they can lift our spirits. I've chuckled over these as I paged through Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount, Jr.
From Samuel Goldwyn:
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined."
"My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them."
"A verbal agreement is not worth the paper it's printed on."
These are folksy figures of speech:
"I feel like a hog starin' at a wristwatch."
"So ugly he looks like a homemade child."
"A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse."
"Quiet as a mosquito doing push-ups on a lemon meringue pie."
Blount's book isn't actually a book of jokes but an analysis of the ways language is used so I almost felt guilty picking these out. It is mostly light and entertaining and well worth a read.
That's not a bad way to escape the worries that are a'coming. Surely we all wish our new President wisdom, strength and ways to bring about peace in 2009. And those are good wishes for us all.
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