Nov 26, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener For those times when everyone around the Thanksgiving table is quiet, share one of these to stimulate conversation. Or not and just enjoy the rare family quiet time. •To make half a kilogram of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million...
Oct 15, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Almost every Tuesday is trash pick up day in Crothersville as well as a number of other communities. Don’t ask me why Tuesday seems to be universal municipal trash day. I don’t know. But we are a trashy people. From the dawn of civilization we...
Oct 1, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Language and speech are two matters which differentiate us from non-communicating species…or at least it is intended to. But maybe there were some things we didn’t learn in high school English, speech & science classes. •The voice box sits...
Sep 3, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener To paraphrase GOT’s Tyrion Lannister, ” I read and I know things.” In my reading I have been accumulating some brilliantly dimwitted sayings and it is time to pass them along. •When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. •A...
Aug 6, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener School is about to go back in session and so it is time for a quiz of your knowledge of history, music, math and literature…and maybe your sense of humor. • King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites....
Apr 9, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener These will be more amusing if you were born before the 21st Century. “Computers in the future may weigh more than 1.5 tons.” ~Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 “I think there is a world market for...
