Inspirations - well, sort of... 240620

Neil's post of the week:
After dinner, my wife asked me if I could clear the table. 
I needed a running jump, but I did it!
 
Andy's post of the week:
Can't work out my wife. First she says "Yes, fine, have a tatoo."
Now she is moaning about the bagpipers in the garden.
 
Eighteenth Century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster… … all play with the interesting and subversive notion that entrepreneurial egotism, an eye for the main chance and for the weakness of others, the qualities that go to the making of a successful criminal, may be the same qualities that in other circumstances make a politician or businessman.    David Malouf, Boyer Lectures 1998
 
Only for people who are comfortable with the Periodic Table:
Did you hear? Oxygen and Potassium went on a date. It went OK.
Not even a week later, Oxygen went out with Magnesium. OMg!
Oxygen then tried to invite Nitrogen out, but... she said NO.