Southpaw Jones

It’s Monday, friends, and I don’t have what I’d call “a lot of energy or creativity” this morning. Therefore, I present to you a few phrases that seems to exist nowhere within the hive brain of the internet. I call these Google Stumpers, as they yield no results on the most powerful search engine. There aren’t many of these phrases left in the universe. Of course, by adding them to my site, I’m taking away the very specialness that defines them. ‘Tis life, death, and cyber-performance-art!

• “has anyone seen my bacon machine”

• “Travolta is the sanest scientologist”

• “where in the world is Carmex San Diego”

• “went to see Spin Doctors last night”

• “I wanted to help but hey”

• “desperate times call for desperate measuring cups”

• “worst president since McCain”

• “trained to exacerbate”

• “I totally intended to buy you flowers”

• “Southpaw Jones rocks”

as reported in The New York Times

February 11, 1908
ROOSEVELT DRAWS A LINE.
President’s Conservatism Obliges Him to Bar Airship Trips.
The conservatism of President Roosevelt is illustrated by the fact that he has declined numerous invitations to take rides on airships which enthusiastic aeronauts and aeronautical constructors have been trying to sell the Government for use by the army.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

If you’re looking for a freshwater mammal with webbed feet and dark brown fur, I know a guy who can point one out for you from amazing distances. Do you want me to introduce you to the…

Highlight here for answer: [otter spotter]


Ladies’ Quartets of Lake Erie Region 17

Note-Ability

[The proud man] does not demand of himself the impossible, but he does demand every ounce of the possible. He refuses to rest content with a defective soul, shrugging in self-deprecation ‘That’s me.’ He knows that that ‘me’ was created, and is alterable, by him.
Leonard Peikoff

ALONE ON VALENTINE’S DAY
Thursday, February 14, 2008
8:00 PM
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