Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 15, 2012

Idle chitchat will always be plentiful, Arlo, but uninformed or purposefully misleading chitchat may be a bit less prevalent. I’ve found lately that conversation monopolists are less likely to make their arguments up out of wholecloth when they know their listeners have instant Google access.

Fret not, Arlo. It’s still just as ephemeral.

Beware! BEWARE!!

From the Amer. Herit. Dict. of the Eng. Lang., 4th Ed.:

Ides: The 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of the other months in the ancient Roman calendar.

So the Ides of April is on the 13th? I’ll mark it on my calendarium. (Poor Nones of March. Nobody pays any attention to it at all.)

There are fewer instances of “I need you to settle a bet.”

The desire to learn keeps us young.

It’s sad people had to look this up. The quality of education in the US is pitiful for a “developed” nation.

Et tu Brute? .Yes…but I’m partial to Old Spice also.

My husband and I had the same conversation this morning, sans Internet. Who’s the cartoon – us or them?

Now it’s iDle chitchat.

prrdh…snerk….

Beware the American ides dull

I was just wondering what Ides meant.