George couldn’t say he hadn’t been warned–he had–but the ghost pepper burger was the hottest thing he’d ever eaten. Being made of cast iron, clearly he had a cast iron stomach, throat, tongue, the works. He was beginning to think that rather than a burger, he had swallowed part of an erupting volcano . . .
Jack (pictured, blue shirt) had seen the Marble Arch in London and thought it would be just the thing to spiff up his ranch in Montana; to his surprise, it was not for sale, at any price. What’s more, none of the home improvement stores back home–Lowe’s, Home Depot–had any plans available or ideas on how to build one; they couldn’t even suggest a contractor, although he found two offered on eBay and three on Craigslist for Nigeria.
On the flight from Houston to London, Jim had re-read Sun Tzu’s classic treatise The Art of War (“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer”), but he was pretty sure that the cannon at the Tower of London was not the art Sun Tzu was talking about . . .
As John Lenny, visiting London from Texas, looked at the beautifully ornate cannon, he couldn’t help but think, “A little less bling and better sights would probably have gotten the job done back in 1776.”
Like the Internet, Al Gore designed and invented the “Eye of London” and convinced the Londoners that soon Global Warming would make the River Thames rise, and the Eye could be used as a giant water wheel to generate electric power. In the meantime, the ride on the “Eye” was cheap (it was electric powered), but like Al’s Global Warming theories, didn’t seem to be going anywhere . . . . . David, Sf.G.
