Side Dishes

3/2/10

Manslaughter is just man’s laughter.

2/10/10

Deleterious, adj. – Having a harmful effect; injurious

1/27/10

Gin up. Chin up a cup of gin, a tin cup of sin, a winner’s sup of beginner’s luck. A fine dined wine aged on a swine’s vine. Plucked of a plant, scant with rants and raves, spends and saves, crazed and amazed as nights become days.

-On to New Zealand.

1/26/10

Thank God we don’t live in Jacksonville, Florida in the 1970’s.

“Rogues and vagabonds, or dissolute persons who go about begging; common gamblers, persons who use juggling or unlawful games or plays, common drunkards, common night walkers, thieves, pilferers or pickpockets, traders in stolen property, lewd, wanton and lascivious persons, keepers of gambling places, common railers and brawlers, persons wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object, habitual loafers, disorderly persons, persons neglecting all lawful business and habitually spending their time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming houses, or places :where alcoholic beverages are sold or served, persons able to work but habitually living upon the earnings of their wives or minor children shall be deemed vagrants and, upon conviction in the Municipal Court shall be punished as provided for Class D offenses.”

Jacksonville Ordinance Code § 257