The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
The sheep images of my last post came from a book with a hilarious title page. It turns out that the sheep book was only one of a series on farm animals, and that they all had hilarious title pages.
My favorite line, and perhaps a new motto:
“What this country needs is less hog and hominy and more chicken and celery.”
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- Jacob Biggle
- 1890s
From Jacob Biggle’s fabulously named Biggle Sheep Book: Something Practical About Sheep (All Wool and a Yard Wide Mutton Chops Cooked to Suit the Taste of the Most Fastidious)
There are a few more words of advice towards the bottom of the cover page, too:“There is no use in keeping sheep if you have no time to bother with them.”
Truth.
Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library, 1912
