Darling, I lost my wedding ring, because my shoes were too smelly
Darling, I lost my wedding ring, because my shoes were too smelly. How convenient that Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE lost his wedding ring and not his Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal from HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Luckily, eventually the knighted …
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Inside out and backwards
From Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard commencement address, May 25 2017: “What about your first lecture at Harvard? Mine was Computer Science 121 with the incredible Harry Lewis. I was late so I threw on a t-shirt and didn’t realize until afterwards it was inside out and backwards with my tag sticking …
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“A touch of the absentminded genius”
In 1776, “on July 6, while Captain [Alexander] Hamilton wandered about trying to find a purse with money that he had lost—he sometimes had a touch of the absentminded genius—the local press announced [American] independence.”– Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
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“I appreciate my fans, my wife, and my girlfriend”
“I appreciate my fans, my wife, and my girlfriend… I mean my wife…”Footballer thanks his wife and his girlfriend live on TV, backtracks awkwardly
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Walking in peace
I should be able to finally walk in peace, in socks and sandals, without wife criticism, now that we saw Argentina / PSG soccer star Angel Di Maria doing the same last night (when we stalked the Argentina National Team at their hotel).
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Wow, this brain is big
Dr. Francis Crick (1916-2004) knew a lot about the human body. He got the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1962 for co-discovering DNA. Almost 30 years later, he made another discovery, as Dr. Terrence Sejnowski recalls in an interview. Francis Crick discovered that a model (i.e. plastic) brain that had …
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Jim Marshall’s classic move
Classic Absent Minded Hall of Fame move: p.s.: Jim Marshall had a growth mindset. At half time he regrouped and played a great second half to help his team win the game!
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The Great TJ’s
The Great TJ’s showing off on its understanding of customers (and human absentmindedness).
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Not a new human condition
“Suddenly he stopped, and glanced up at the houses. He found that he had passed his aunt’s some distance, and, smiling to himself, turned back.”– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
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Men in caves
Things that happen when men go in caves:(if they had taken a different wrong turn, that would have been the end of these fellas) From Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: “I recollect that at one point in the cave one of these columns is of such huge proportions that …
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