Does it bother you that...

Eminent and Eminem are so close to the same?

As in Eminem Domain…

Or that * Il Duce * and * Ill Duck * are similar?

What else?

Silicon and silicone. I was with my mother-in-law the other day and she mentioned “silicone valley” and for a minute there I thought she was talking about L.A.

But they are pronounced differently. Their emphasises (emphases?) are on different syllables. Now, the similarity between Eminem and M&M’s does disturb me.

I am really distressed over the similarity between my ex-wife and a steaming pile of dog pooh.

I can relate to this similarity. A buddy of mine had this scale of relativity which only affected degree or amount. A case in point would be found in this parallel:

My dislike for The Monkees TV show is matched only by my love of Italian Sausage on pizza. (It’s up to the person receiving this information to establish the degree on the related scales.)

Okay. Count this as my one bump. It barely deserves posting, much less restarting a thread of this type for, so here goes:

Does it bother you that the odds are pretty close to dead certain that at some point in your life, either in the past or in the future, or maybe at this very moment, that you will have breathed the very same air molecules as as Plato, Shakespeare, Hitler, and Charles Manson? What it did for those folks it may very well do to/for you. Scary?

There was a news item back during Dennis’s ride up the mid-USA states that it was bringing some bug or blight that affects soybeans from south Alabama to Indiana and that farmers ought to be on the lookout for damage to crops as a result.

I had already had the thought that the very air that had started off in Africa was blowing in my yard when that storm blew past us.