Posts by Dr. Boli
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
Sir: I write to protest the continued use of the pronoun “whom” in your columns. “Whom” is an outdated patriarchalist cryptofascist inflection that serves no legitimate purpose in today’s modern world. Its only use is to keep the masses in bondage to a false notion of “correctness” in language, placing their speech, nay their very thoughts, under the control of the so-called educated classes, who use the position of dominance thus obtained to force the rest of us to eat processed snack foods that shorten our lifespans. My book, Liberation from Atherosclerosis Through Pronoun Reform, is available for Kindle and other ebook readers at what I consider a very reasonable price, so there is really no excuse for ignorance at this point in time.
Also, when is the water company going to replace that clumsy patch they left on Vondera Street? I nearly broke an axle on that thing. —Sincerely, Saponaria Humphries-Plank, Munhall.
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A RARE INTERVIEW.
A rare interview with Dr. Boli has been published at the Catholic Book Blogger’s site. Interviews with Dr. Boli are rare, not because Dr. Boli is unwilling to speak, but because it is rare for an interviewer to sit still long enough to hear out Dr. Boli’s measured and thoughtful answers to his questions. This interview, however, is exceptionally rare, because it also includes answers from another author, “Christopher Bailey,” who—the time has come to admit it—is a fictional character made up solely for Dr. Boli’s own amusement.
FROM THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
GIVING AWAY A BOOK.
Update: The book is on its way to the lucky winner, but here is another opportunity to win a book.
If you have ever thought to yourself, “I might like to play the lottery merely for the thrill of it, but even if I had a chance of winning, I can’t think of where I’d put 344 million dollars,” then the Catholic Book Blogger has a giveaway that may suit you better. The prize is only one copy of Dr. Boli’s Gift Horse, which is much easier to deal with than piles of redundant cash. The contest is sponsored by some young writer who seems to think that this is an appropriate way of putting his face before the public eye. Why he did not choose to give away one of his own books is a mystery whose depths Dr. Boli cannot fathom.
Dr. Boli would like to commend the Catholic Book Blogger for his catholic taste in books. Certainly Dr. Boli’s Gift Horse is the most catholic of all books, if we understand “catholic” in the root sense of “utterly indiscriminate.” He has reviewed the work in question here.
BUMPER STICKERS.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
One of the many entrepreneurs inconvenienced by the end of Prohibition.
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Eighty years ago today, Prohibition came to an end in the United States—an event still mournfully commemorated by gangsters, smugglers, and thugs as the darkest day in the history of organized crime.
INSPIRATIONAL POSTER.
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COUNTERINTUITIVE FACTS.
Not moths.
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An ordinary automobile will consume 6% less fuel if you name it Jeremy.
“West” is merely a cartographic convention, not a true direction, as you may easily verify for yourself by searching the globe for a West Pole.
Russian boots are manufactured mostly in Poland.
A journey of a thousand miles actually begins with at least two steps, and sometimes a great many more. A single step qualifies only as fidgeting.
A butterfly awakened in the middle of the night will not turn into a moth.
Though we speak as if we all saw the same color, a significant portion of the population sees the color mauve as a pale violet rather than pale purple.
Sea slugs seldom, if ever, slug anyone.
Contrary to what uninformed etymology might lead one to expect, a hamlet is not a small ham.