June 17, 2008


Dear clusterflock: “Sadder But Wiser”

So I was corresponding with clusterflock friend Phil Bebbington and back and forth we went and then I said:

Ah, but just because they never proved anything in a court of law doesn’t mean they don’t hold it against you!

Which I attributed to Sheila’s Collection of “Sadder But Wiser” Observations, “soon to be published by a very nice outfit who say they’ll be happy to print it up provided they receive full payment in advance for a run of 500, plus postage and handling fees.”

And then I got to thinking, Why not open it up? Make it a clusterflock collection of “sadder but wiser” observations.

Got any? Observations born of sadder (but wiser) experience? (We can address the matter of publication later, yes?)

posted by Sheila Ryan in observations, wisdom 

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3 Responses to “Dear clusterflock: “Sadder But Wiser””

  1. Kathy Hilen-Smith on June 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    Oh crap!! You made me break into song!!
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    No wide-eyed, eager,
    Wholesome innocent Sunday school teacher for me.
    That kinda girl spins webs no spider ever–
    Listen, boy–
    A girl who trades on all that purity
    Merely wants to trade my independence for her security.
    The only affirmative she will file
    Refers to marching down the aisle.
    No golden, glorious, gleaming pristine goddess–
    No sir!
    For no Diana do I play faun.
    I can tell you that right now.
    I snarl, I hiss: How can ignorance be compared to bliss?
    I spark, I fizz for the lady who knows what time it is.
    I cheer, I rave for the virtue I’m too late to save
    The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.
    No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby
    Not for me.
    That kinda child ties knots no sailor ever knew.
    I prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance.
    No dewy young miss
    Who keeps resisting all the time she keeps insisting!
    No wide-eyed, wholesome innocent female.
    No sir.
    Why, she’s the fisherman, I’m the fish you see?–PLOP!
    I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by
    I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
    I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more “A”
    The sadder-but-wiser girl’s the girl for me.
    The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.

  2. Sheila Ryan on June 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    I know for a fact that this is first Meredith Willson reference ever to appear on clusterflock.

  3. Cooper Renner on June 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Sadder but wiser, Cooper picked up the pieces of the shattered CD player he had hurled at the wall when the Beatles’ performance of “Till There Was You” began to play.

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