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!