Some darn meteorologist has just told me that soon ice will be falling from the sky. I must bid you all a very "Good Morning"... I am off to the store (before it kills me). hehehe Later 'gators! XOXO, Me

From one of my favorite guys...

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ROTF!!!
Truly, I dang near fell out of my chair, if not for the arm-rests thereon.
At times I am guilty- and yet, y'all seem to bear with me as the keys fly. (Thanks a million for that)!

Read on, with a smile on your face!
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By Richard Nordquist, About.com Guide January 11, 2012
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Today's guest post is by Ellis O. Jones (1874-1967), a comic playwright, anti-war activist, and editor of the original Life magazine.


Use Short Sentences
Writers who wish to impart to their productions power and pungency, who wish to keep the reader's attention upon the tiptoe of activity, who desire to escape the imputation of pedantry and who seek to surcharge their sentiments with sparkle and spirit, will do well to bear in mind constantly that long, lingering sentences, unduly overburdened with an abundance of phrases, clauses, and parenthetical observations of a more or less digressive character, are apt to be tiresome to the reader, especially if the subject matter be at all profound or ponderous, to place an undue strain upon his powers of concentration and to leave him with a confused concept of the ideas which the writer apparently has been at great pains to concentrate, while short, snappy sentences, on the other hand, with the frequent recurrence of subject and predicate, thus recalling and emphasizing the idea to be expressed as the development of the thought proceeds, like numerous sign-posts upon an untraveled road, these frequent breaks having the effect of taking a new hold upon the reader's attention, oases in the desert of words, as it were, will be found to be much more effective, much more conductive to clarity, and far better calculated to preserve the contact, the wireless connection, so to speak, between the writer and the reader, provided, however, and it is always very easy to err through a too strict and too literal application of a general rule, that the sentences are not so short as to give a jerky, choppy, and sketchy effect and to scatter the reader's attention so often as to send him wool-gathering completely.
(Originally published in the humor magazine Life, reprinted in The Writer, December 1913)
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My many thanks to Mr. Nordquist!

XOXO
Me