Happiness is The Frito Bandito from 1965

 Ai Yi Yi Yi!   I am the Frito Bandito!

 

Welcome to Octember

 

I used to shop in the Pacific Empire of Safeway long before The Exiled Council of Costco even had an army let alone a beachhead

 

Happiness is Swedish extroversion

 

Always look on the bright side at the gas station

 

Happiness is Hoyt Axton's 1974 cover of Murphey and Quarto's 1972 Geronimo's Cadillac

 IMAO Axton's cover is far and away better than Murphey's original, Cher's cover, Johnny Rivers', or Jeff Stevens and the Bullets'.

That song was made for Axton's voice, and for the voices of none of the others.

 

The forecast for black bears is variable

 

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