In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.
There was a high school football coach around here who got in trouble for telling his players to "bite the head off a live frog every morning". Well, he may have gotten into trouble more for doing it front of the players.
Should I live that long, I may credit my long life to drinking 2 gallons of water a day and eating nothing but desiccated turkey livers and stewed prunes.
I remember seeing a joke about one: Grandpa was mentoring his grandson on the secret of living a long and productive life: "Every morning, sprinkle a teaspoon of gunpowder on your oatmeal. Well, when grandpa died at the age of 97, he left six children, 33 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren... and a 25-foot crater where the crematory used to be.
I thought Twain's "Frog-a-Day" was the proven standard.
ReplyDeleteThere was a high school football coach around here who got in trouble for telling his players to "bite the head off a live frog every morning". Well, he may have gotten into trouble more for doing it front of the players.
DeleteShould I live that long, I may credit my long life to drinking 2 gallons of water a day and eating nothing but desiccated turkey livers and stewed prunes.
ReplyDeleteReplace the "desiccated turkey livers" with "sauteed tofu cubes" and you can have a good laugh at the vegans who will actually try that...
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I'd claim it was because I took a high colonic every day, and twice a day on weekends, to catch the naturopathy crowd.
ReplyDeleteI'm planning on claiming it's frantic masturbation to some form of esoteric (but legal) porn three times a day.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing a joke about one:
ReplyDeleteGrandpa was mentoring his grandson on the secret of living a long and productive life: "Every morning, sprinkle a teaspoon of gunpowder on your oatmeal.
Well, when grandpa died at the age of 97, he left six children, 33 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren... and a 25-foot crater where the crematory used to be.
I thought Twain's "Frog-a-Day" was the proven standard.
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