Do you recall Starting Sparks? It was a link-up by Emily @ Ink, Inc. and Ashley @ [oddly novel title] that I participated in a few times last year. It has since closed down, but now the dynamic duo is back with a new monthly thingamajig called Footnotes! And it’s quote themed! (Click on either one of their names to go to their latest Footnotes posts.) Each month, they provide a prompt, and bloggers link up with their posts about a quote related to the prompt.
This month’s prompt: a quotation that makes you laugh.
Mr. Gilmer asked him one more question. “About your writing with your left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?”
“I most positively am not, I can use one hand as good as the other. One hand as good as the other,” he added, glaring at the defense table.
–from To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
I had a grand old time reading TKAM a couple years back, and this is just one of the sections that made me laugh out loud! (Another one involved Scout building a snowman and making some comments that nowadays would be considered racist, but at the time were pretty innocent.)
Speaking of laughing, lately I’ve been inwardly chuckling at my teachers. Not that they’re all comedians (only one of them is of a consistently humorous personality), but after sitting under their tutelage for a couple of weeks, I’m starting to find humor in their various quirks. Like how one nice older lady calls everyone sweetie and has difficulty enlarging YouTube videos to full screen, or how my math and economics teacher pronounces subtraction as “substraction.”
In other mundane and unrelated news, autumn has swept in with chilly winds and drizzly skies, making hot tea even more wonderful than it usually is. So here’s some pretty fall aesthetic I’ve been staring at on Pinterest lately.
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Apparently I love foxes. And trees. And books. But what else is new?
Apologies for the brevity of today’s post. Next Saturday, I’ve got something extra special coming your way–it may involve superheroes, but you didn’t hear that from me!
So what’s making YOU laugh these days? Before I hit publish, here’s one last bonus quote that makes me snicker:
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
–Albert Einstein