Thursday, January 23, 2025

Sources Say 'No'

Two men are riding in a gondola, angry at the journey, but it is probably because the gondolier is singing The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond with a loud "By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes, where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond..."
February 25, 1966
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond is a Scottish folk song attributed to the Jacobite rising back in 1745. You may recognize it from a season eight episode of The Office. What you all may remember if you watched old cartoons and sitcoms is from the chorus: "O ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ye." That's where the good stuff is.

Are these two men trying to take a romantic gondola ride?

Brutus is at the fortune teller again. She is leaning in, looking really hard into the crystal ball. "Hmm..." she sighs. "What do you see about my future? Is it good? Is it bad?" Brutus practically begs. "I can't see anything in your future."
She is really leaning into that crystal ball. If my fortune teller had to look that hard to see my future, I'd ask for my money back.