Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Please notice that this is not Behave Like a Pirate Day, ye Rapscallions.
At Your Inner Rhino We observe these distinctions.
Category Archives: R Lite
Murder Most Foul
This is Agatha Christie’s birthday, back in 1890. Her specialty was writing detective fiction, featuring improbable puzzle plots and ingenious sleuths.
In the Wild there is not much for a Rhino to detect. Scent informs all situations, which is seldom open to interpretation.
Rhinos do like the tip-toe element of Whodunits, even though they are about the Badly Behaved.
As the Cookie Crumbles
Today is National Fortune Cookie Day. It happens every year, rain or shine.
What puzzles Us Rhinos is: how does a cookie know so much? Inside is a secret message, tailored to the recipient. Insightful, but also mysterious. For Rhinos, the mystery is doubly secret, because We can’t read.
A Message, a treat, from Cosmic Cookie Central, for each of Us alone. Makes Us feel special.
Whooooosh
All sensible critters like Windy Days, Rhinos no less than any other.
Appropriate choreography is self-explanatory.
Puck-ed
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fine play, genuinely funny. Puck is a free Spirit, independent, rambunctious, unpredictable, and cagey: entirely likable.
These traits are common among Rhinos, so We gravitate to characters who know about Mischief first hand.
Admittedly, Rhino understanding of Convention is somewhat limited.
Ice Cream Truckin’
Today is National Creamsickle Day. As is often the case, it is pretty toasty and humid outside, making Creamsickles both welcome and impractical. Ah well, even Rhinos can’t have it all.
The Creamsickle was invented in 1905 by a Californian named Frank Epperson, age 11. There is a conversation grabber!
YIR, keeping Social Interaction scintillating.
A Day of Pleasantries
Today is Chinese Valentine’s Day. Any day is a good one for distributing tokens of Affectionate Regard, from the Rhino point of view.
Perhaps it is always Valentine’s Day somewhere, depending on where you are?
Life is full of these Questions. Rhinos are not nearly as full of Answers.
The Happy Wanderer
The Staff of Your Inner Rhino is off for a few days. Chat quietly among yourselves until Sunday.
Val-deri, Valdera, Val-deri, Valdera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, etc.
Flamboyance
We Rhinos have an inherent Sense of Style; it is undeninable. If a Flourish is called for, We indulge in the extra tassel, of which there can never be too many.
(Please recall, since Rhinos do not actually own Anything, this exercise is entirely hypothetical. But it makes it easy to improve any costume decision at a moment’s notice. Celery Green works for some ensembles, Sauteed Pansy for others. Change the mind, change the frock. And, it always fits!)
Rhinos subscribe to the theory that Glamour and Modesty seldom share the same address. You might want to embroider that onto a pillow.
The Enchanted Jiffy
Warm Birthday Wishes to J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novel series. Very popular indeed.
We Rhinos don’t have to attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to know how to make birthday cake vanish.
Just wave your fork, and Presto Disappear-O!
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