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Anna Schott's avatar

Evening. After supper. Family sits in living room. Child does puzzle. Mother squints quizzically at phone, and grunts. Child looks up.

“Mama?”

“Yes?”

“What are you doing.”

“I’m reading.”

“What are you reading?”

“A play.”

“What’s it about?”

“Vacuuming.”

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Adam Nathan's avatar

I'm glad the answer wasn't lobster.

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Kimberly Warner's avatar

1) Edison would’ve been a hit with the youth if he’d been successful with the hemp filament

2) I’m so confused, definitely not from Harvard

3) I found the polar bear after I flavored the milk to chocolate. He tasted like a marshmallow!

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Adam Nathan's avatar

That would be a perfect little polar bear. 🥰 I hope you didn’t eat him.

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E.T. Allen's avatar

Just the first play so far. It’s freaking funny. Smart, even. Way smarter than Tommy Edison. You have an uncanny knack for this 💡

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Adam Nathan's avatar

Thanks! Truth told: he was a bit of a childhood hero. Pretty amazing guy, but I thought it best to take him down a peg. Btw: bamboo really was the breakthrough filament.

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Deirdre Lewis's avatar

A beard hair from Ulysses Grant!

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Adam Nathan's avatar

It's funny. I went back and looked at Grant's image and I remember him having a much bigger beard than he had. I was remembering like lumberjack length, but I still found one picture that keeps the joke alive. He wasn't exactly 5 o'clock shadow either.

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Deirdre Lewis's avatar

I finally had a chance to read the other two. I’m ready for these to be on stage! And ha those old Civil War beards always seem more billowy and pillowy!

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Carl Spiess's avatar

Loved the Edison one!

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Adam Nathan's avatar

💡😆

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Christine Stephens Tretheway's avatar

Loved these!! So light-hearted and entertaining...I'll be smiling all day with these!

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Lor's avatar

1 Thomas to Mina;

‘If I didn’t have bad luck,

I’d have no luck at all’.

Behind every great male scientist, is a woman with a Japanese bamboo brush🧐?

2 “I think Carolyn said you’re in Medieval Studies? Or was it Philosophy?” (Ooh, I like this one, but then I was a Nutrition Science major, never studied Philosophy).

“Much of my work focuses on bamboo and fingernails. It’s a narrow field.” (Brilliant)

Oh, way too many lines to quote. 👏👏

Coincidentally, we just had our 42 anniversary. Met in elementary school, kidding, senior year in high school.

3 Open season on Puffins? He needs some tiny backpacks and send them hiking. Oh I know, buy a few dozen packs of cocktail umbrellas and put them on a bus to coastal Maine.

Great fun, Adam!

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Holly Starley's avatar

Hilarious, my friend. These has me grinning.

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Holly Starley's avatar

“Inspiration and perspiration. 1% and 99%. I sewed it onto your quilted catnap pillow. Lift your head, my love. See?”

Bwahaha! Oh, Mina.

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