I’ve heard the names Frick and Frack all my life, but I don’t remember ever learning why we use those names to refer to pairs of insufferable idiots inseparable friends. Sadly, I found this out only on hearing of the recent death of Mr Frick.
Frick and Frack were the stage names of Werner Groebli and Hansruedi (Hans) R. Mauch, comedy ice skaters from Switzerland who were mst popular on the 1930s and ’40s. Mauch — Mr. Frack — died in 1979. Groebli — Mr. Frick — passed away just a couple weeks ago. His signature move involved leaning back at a seemingly impossible angle while skating in circles.
Reduce. Recycle. Reuse. This was originally posted in my first month on this blog. It’s completely silly and meaningless, but I enjoyed writing it.
Ruminate on This
“Doctor?”
“What’s the Beef?”
“It looks like Mad Cow.”
The patient was lying on a Guernsey. “Looks like you got a Bum Steer,” I observed.
“Don’t give me that Bull,” he replied.
“So what are you Hereford?”
“Got Milk?”
“Heifer Pete’s sake, I’m a doctor. Don’t you see the Sheepskin?”
“What Cow College did you go to?”
“Charolais.”
“Charlie’s? Holy Cow!”
“No. Charolais. Besides, I’m pretty sure that would be a Brahman.”
“Well, I guess I stepped in that Cow Patty.”
“Don’t call me Patty. Tell me how you Veal.”
“Gee, you’re Bossie. I feel so fine.”
“More like Bovine, it seems to me.”
“You’re not Calf as funny as you think you are.”
“Don’t have a Cow, man.”
“Maybe I’d better book.”
“Leather-bound?”
“I’m not sure where I’m bound, but I’m not trying to Hide.”
“And you’re not running from the Longhorn of the law?”
“No. I made Baal. I’m gonna Hoof-n-Mouth off.”
“There’s no need to get Angus.”
“Hey, let go. You Toro my Jersey.”
“Sorry. I didn’t want you to start a Stampede. And I haven’t given you my bill.”
“I’m sure you’re going to Milk this for all it’s worth.”
“Bullseye. You owe me a Buffalo Nickel.”
“That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever Herd.”
I sometimes wonder whether it is more of a disappointment to find that a blog has not been updated recently or that it has a really lame post.
Like this one.
At least I rarely meme….
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. ~ Virginia Woolf
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. ~ W.C. Fields
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play. ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Above all, discard the irrelevant. ~ Barbara Tuchman
The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of. ~ Shirley Hazzard
Maybe the best we can do is do what we love as best we can. ~ Galway Kinnell
It is belief in love and hope for Mr. Right that keeps us shaving our legs. ~ aka_monty of The Daily Bitch
I have CDO. It’s like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, but it’s alphabetical. Like it should be.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ~ Diane Arbus
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. ~ Henrik Ibsen
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~ Margaret Atwood
There’s nothing remarkable about [making music]. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. ~ Johann Sebastian Bach
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ~ Tennessee Williams
When someone recognizes you in a grocery store nod briefly and become a cabbage. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. ~ Howard Lindsay
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important. ~ Senator Eugene (Joseph) McCarthy
There’s nothing worse than an introspective drunk. ~ Tom Sharpe
All the world’s a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. ~ Sean O’Casey
The previous parts of this series are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (If you’re keeping track, there are 352 quotes in rotation now and I’ve posted 280 of them in these entries.)
