One of the happy ironies of life is that the accent on ultima falls on the antepenult

 One of the happy ironies of life is that the accent on ultima falls on the antepenult.

No matter what uncertainties life may throw in your way, you can always double-back on that.

Would you be happy to know that electricity is not as expensive as inflation says it could be?

 I didn't think so.

 

Few things in life give more pleasure than the sound of a labor-saving device, and a kitty

 

Happiness is wood heat

 Hard by a cottage chimney smokes,

From betwixt two aged oaks.

 

-- John Milton 

Who needs a bar cart when there's only two drinks in the world?

What Every Man Should Have on a Bar Cart 

Amanda Gabriele, InsideHook 

One for when it's hot, and one for when it's not.

 

 

Happiness is meat poetry

The Lane Was So Narrow, by Colin Smith, Gloucester

 

 The lane was so narrow

And his back was so wide

That the ox was stuck fast

Until the butcher arrived!

There's some Schadenfreude in Valhalla tonight

 

Happiness is imagining the kitchen of Marcus Junius Brutus

 

Happiness is the simpleton who thinks Samuel Johnson was being vulgar

 

Happiness is The Four Apostrophes of the Apocalypse

You'll notice it's not Goodwyn's, either lol.

 

Happiness is Some Enchanted Evening, South Pacific 1958

 Featuring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi (actually singing is Giorgio Tozzi):

 

Happiness is Patron, the bomb-sniffing dog of Ukraine, having a little fun in Moscow this week lol

 

Happiness is Little Tich's Big Boot Dance, Paris Exposition of 1900

 

Happiness is people who need people

 

Happiness is getting outside for some fresh air

 

He 'scapes the best, who nature to repair

Draws physick from the fields in draughts of vital air.

 

-- John Dryden 

Happiness is a go-cart

 Young children, who are try'd in

Go-carts, to keep their steps from sliding,

When members knit, and legs grow stronger,

Make use of such machine no longer.

 

-- Matthew Prior 

Happiness is Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses

 

We called it "hangin' in the doorway"

 

Happiness is tripping the light fantastick

Euphrosyne Goddess of Joy Mirth and Merriment Corfu Greece

 

 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,

And Laughter, holding both his sides,

Come, and trip it, as you go,

On the light fantastick toe.

 

 -- John Milton (1608-1674)

Happiness is hearing a robin sing

 

Happiness is a beehive

 As in the hive's vimineous dome

Ten thousand bees enjoy their home;

Each does her studious action vary,

To go and come, to fetch and carry.

 

-- Matthew Prior 

Farewell Nedra Talley Ross, the last of The Ronettes

 

It seems to me that we were happier when albedo was 0.39 instead of 0.29, oddly enough

Happiness, of course, is the limerick about relativity

Einstein in Vienna, 1921

 

Relativity.

There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.

-- A. H. Reginald Buller, Professor of Botany, Punch, December 19, 1923

I worry about the 46% who do not

 

 

🤣 

I could have used a soul cake last Christmas, a really big one to get me to here and now, but I made it without one

 

Hey ho, nobody home, meat nor drink nor money have I none
 Yet shall we be merry, Hey ho, nobody home.
 Hey ho, nobody home, Meat nor drink nor money have I none
 Yet shall we be merry, Hey ho, nobody home.
 Hey Ho, nobody home.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
 An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry,
 One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

God bless the master of this house, and the mistress also
 And all the little children that round your table grow.
 The cattle in your stable and the dog by your front door
 And all that dwell within your gates 
we wish you ten times more.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
 An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry, 
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

Go down into the cellar and see what you can find
 If the barrels are not empty we hope you will be kind 
We hope you will be kind with your apple and strawber'
 For we'll come no more a 'soalin' till this time next year.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake. 
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry,
 One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

The streets are very dirty, my shoes are very thin.
 I have a little pocket to put a penny in.
 If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do. 
If you haven't got a ha' penny then God bless you.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
 An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry,
 One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

Now to the Lord sing praises all you within this place,
 And with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace. This holy tide of Christmas of beauty and of grace,
 Oh tidings of comfort and joy.

Happiness is decimation

 Nine in ten prefer it. 🤣

Happiness is easy for you to say

 This song came out in 1988, the year I had a close uncle die, then another, then my car, and then my career.

But I'm still here, dammit!

 

 

Happiness is a life in revolutions per minute

 

Happiness is the kitchen time zone

 

Happiness is Yul Brynner saying et cetera, et cetera, et cetera

 

Orwell's dumpster

 

Why beans are best avoided when pregnant

  If the mother eat much beans, or such vaporous food, it endangereth the child to become lunatick.

 

 -- Francis Bacon

Happiness is having the world in the bag

 

Happiness is supper by five

 

Let it be so hasted, that supper be ready at the farthest by five of the clock.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2 Scene 2 

Happiness is no signs anywhere

 

Happiness is a really absurd expiration date

 

Happiness is January, right Jack?

 

Happiness is an extremity you'll do well to avoid

 The East and West

Upon the globe, a mathematick point

Only divides: thus happiness and misery,

And all extremes, are still contiguous.

 

-- Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) 

Happiness is roast beef and gravy on a Tuesday, a lousy Tuesday

 

Happiness is my green tambourine: The Lemon Pipers, November 1967

Drop your silver in.