Monday, June 23, 2014

Read your text

poor georgie's almanack:
The Standard Common Core of Amazon's new whiz-bang smart phone is in the text.  Its promos ignore the fact that it also takes calls from your mother.  (Today's convoluted pun.)

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Infer whatever you want.

poor georgie’s almanack:
Armed planes from carrier USS Bush flying over Iraq today can’t use smart bombs because they don’t have enough intelligence.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Killer idea.

poor georgie’s almanack:
A killer idea. 
Travel Weekly reports that last month Syria launched a new campaign promoting tourism

Saturday, June 14, 2014

The combo please

poor georgie’s almanack:
I suppose we’d be better at keeping the world safe for democracy if we knew the combination.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Near-sighted visionaries

poor georgie’s almanack:

Idiot (noun): anyone who claims to know what “we” should do next in the Mideast or Ukraine.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Seat belts are not enough

poor georgie’s almanack:

Control freaks. 

Here and there, those speeding societies backwards refuse to use the other two rear-view mirrors.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The F word

poor georgie’s almanack:
The F word. Feckless.
Someone struggling to write a sentence including the word feckless.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Omelet couplet

poor georgie’s almanack:
Hens deserve more respect.
They give up their children and their thighs
so we can emit our satisfied sighs.

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Boom Boom

poor georgie’s almanac:

After bombing of his cavalcade, Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said said he was undeterred, undeterred.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Snowden

poor georgie’s almanack:

Pop goes the weasel:

When the Russians finally put pressure on Snowden to spill his guts.

Monday, June 2, 2014