You Make Me Wanna...

Suspect this is NOT what the Reader's Digest folks were driving at all those years ago with their notes about 'more picturesque speech', but it's a whole lot easier to remember and more fun to read. Having read the news account twice and the summary of the actual study, I'm surprised it's not louder at all manner of public meetings (and some of the less than private ones, too).

Adds new meaning to that old admonition from Grandma about 'keep a civil tongue in your head, young man!' What? My grandmother was the only one who ever said that? That's how we're gonna play this? Dude...

Of course, true confession time, I do think of some (perhaps) technicolor participles and anatomically difficult aerobic exercises, but I strive to NOT speak them aloud while processing those thoughts-at least not too loudly. And when I do so far (sixty-nine plus years and counting), I've gotten away with it.

Like many of us, I have had instances in the past where my evil twin, Skippy, (what my Imp of the Perverse tends to answer to) has confused inside and outside voice and my ears have heard my mouth say things that I had truly hoped would remain secret.

Now, if I can just work hypoalgesia into a sentence, ideally a limerick, it'll be a banner day.
-bill kenny