Hole in the hall. Robot check.

Are you ready for this? Behind curtain number 1…(Silent film comedian Elsid Tarron; USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Twilight Zone or more like “I Love Lucy”?

Which is the silliest species? Humans are giving Malamutes a serious run for that title.

Consider: not the Bunny or an early visit from Santa? Oh, only a misguided social distancing attempt.

Hearing the rumble on the roof and seeing feet dangling down into the room would send any kid scurrying over to Mom yelling, “He’s coming. He’s coming. But I don’t know who!”

Late Saturday night, a man walking his dog kept hearing a voice…So close to Easter, was it a sign? THE voice from above?

Actually after walking around the building searching for the source, he climbed up and peeked over the roof only to spot a young man stuck up to his armpits in a pipe through the roof. Not really believing the story of “someone was chasing me and trying to kill me”, the man called 911.

It took the fire department a bit to get the individual out and on a stretcher off to the the hospital before police took him. (Fire Dept. rescue video: “Suspected burglar found stuck inside pipe on roof”..)

What ever funny bunny business, he thought he was doing now comes with an unexpected bonus – a short trip to an ER just long enough to be where so many Coronavirus victims wait to be admitted. Trapped not tapped.

Maybe an O’Henry or Alfred Hitchcock style movie script in the works.

“Hey, Joe. Did you get your W2 form yet? Maybe I should check with HR.”(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Next in line: Stop that tax dodger.

Mark Cuban is being interviewed soon. He’s always entertaining. In one recent promo he floated out an idea that if a company replaces an employee with a robot, that robot should be taxed just like the human employee was. (“Mark Cuban on coronavirus economic advisory role: I’m all in” April 15, 2020)

What an idea.

So Staff here immediately ran over to Roomba and gave it a toe shove, “You’ve had enough of a free ride. I already pay for all the electricity you eat. So it makes sense. Pay up. Get out there, get a job, and earn some money ’cause I’m not paying your taxes for you. Social security taxers, income taxes – did you even file your 2019 income tax form?”

“I bet you’re expecting a Coronavirus check, too – probably hiding it, you moocher devouring everything here.”

OK here’s the story of this 1957 “I love Lucy” episode: Lucy promises Little Ricky Superman will come to his fifth birthday party. When she can’t get Superman to show up, she decides to dress up herself, using a football helmet to hide her red hair, so the kids won’t realize it’s her. Planning a surprise entrance to the apartment, she goes out on the ledge of the vacant apt. next door and walks down it. Suddenly she sees Ricky is able to get the real Superman to come to the party. Lucy quietly sneaks back down the ledge to the vacant apartment, but, well you  know, she finds the window shut and locked and there she is stuck on the ledge….(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

“Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”

(C.S. Lewis, British writer and lay theologian)

“Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.”

(Author, Christopher Isherwood)

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

(French Novelist, Collette)

Well, given the last quote, I guess Malamutes win by a tail and a hairpin turn.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

“Who gets the grins? You seriously think there’s any contest?” (© image)

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