Day: August 16, 2014

* An astronomer showed a picture of the Andromeda Nebula to a magazine art director. It was a dizzying swirls of dots of light and clouds of gas. The editor said, “That is gorgeous. Do you think we can get a shot of it from another angle?”

While attending a convention, I breakfasted in a café, next to two gray-haired men from the same symposium. I overheard one remark, “You know this is the first time in 40 years we’ve gone to one of these things without our wives.” His pal leaned  back, contemplating what such freedom might portend. “I know,” he said, laying his menu aside. “Let’s go have biscuits and gravy.”

Q: How bad is the economy in Detroit?

A: Motor City Casino was turned into an Indian reservation!