Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Notes on an overheard conversation at a restaurant with the TV turned to a tennis match
“Oh come on! Just serve the ball already! This is like watching a pitcher!”
“What?”
“Look at her! Bouncing the ball up and down like that. It's like watching a baseball pitcher!”
“Pitching isn't easy. Both leagues will now have designated hitters for their pitchers.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Why not have designated hitters for other positions?”
“What?”
“Yeah, a designated hitter for the catcher, first baseman, short stop …”
“They change catchers all the time.”
“Like they don't change pitchers?”
“Look, pitching is a specialized art. You don't want them getting hurt while batting. Just the other day one got hit bad with a baseball.”
“So anyone can be the catcher then?”
“Well … no … ”
“So why not designated hitters for catchers?”
“Because … ”
“Well?”
“Shut up!”
Extreme statuary, Delray Beach Edition
Bunny and I stopped at The Girls Strawberry U-Pick Ice Creme Shop and Animal Petting Farm again (don't judge us! You'd do the same!) and this time we took a stroll out back of the shop. While one should always be wary of the Spanish Inquisition I did not expect this:
![[A human-sized statue of an Easter Island moai.] “What? You expect me to say something like ‘Ooom poppa chikamaga wana sing gow / Do lomma sinnigama mana ching jow / Inimana choogamaga wana sing gee / Finimana foonimana one is now free?’ Wrong culture dude!”](/2021/05/11/moai.jpg "“What? You expect me to say something like ‘Ooom poppa chikamaga wana sing gow / Do lomma sinnigama mana ching jow / Inimana choogamaga wana sing gee / Finimana foonimana one is now free?’ Wrong culture dude!”")
It was a lot smaller than I expected. And you can buy these things? How expsensive was it to ship it all the way from Easter Island?
![[The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades]](https://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/2023/1023.t.jpg "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades")