Saturday, February 1, 2020

Spurious Groundhog’s Day 2020

Will the groundhog see his shadow and doom humanity to six more weeks of winter? 
In honor of Groundhog’s Day The Spurious Nib would like to remind you of other things that indicate six more weeks...


Where upon a French painter deigns to agree on your portraiture
 it will take six more weeks before he lays 
the first brush stroke to canvas.

When Charles Pardon learned his wife purchased a piano 
it meant six more weeks of a migraine headache.

Some spurious employees at the Basilica of St. Paul claim it takes four weeks to wax the floors from the east entrance to the west exit and then six more weeks to wax the floors from west to east!


Whenever Harland Peddywhomper notices the washboard 
approach the top of his head he knew it meant 
sleeping in the hospital for six more weeks.

When Slovaks in Tuzla, Yugoslavia began fermenting potatoes they knew it would be six more weeks before they would have vodka.

And sixthly
If a farmer sees a groundhog it means 
six more weeks until he can give his wife a fur hat.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Spurious Evangelism

Penelope Just’s thirty-seven times great grandfather, 
Seraphinus Iustinianus, 
was asked how to witness to people in chariots. 
Recalling Acts 8:30 Seraphinus said, 
“eunuch up on them.”

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Spurious Nib 2020

Spurious Crime Waves!

In 1902 Messrs Victor Wrasses and Dinkle Hoven were visiting a beach in the Pacific Northwest when they discovered what they believed was the crime of the century!
There in the sand were dead starfish and the marks of two distinct female kinds of shoes. What kind of women would hurt such beloved creatures of the sea?

Spurious Nib 2020

Spurious Nib New Years Resolutions Part 2
You might recall at the end of 1832 Penelope Just 
resolved to read the entire Bible in the new year.
On January 2, 1833 Penelope reported 
the last thing she remembered reading was, 
“And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, 
and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 
And Hadoram, and Uzal…”
 and then everything went dark.


Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Happy Spurious Nibs New Year!


Every New Years Eve starting in 1857 
Tommy Glockenspiel’s father asked his son 
to ring in the New Year with a rousing tuba solo of, 
“Im Frühtau zu Berge.” 
Tommy always refused 
and instead threw snowballs 
at the family’s goat named Hundefiedler!

Spurious Nib New Years Resolutions


In 1832 Penelope Just resolved to read the entire Bible in the new year.

Spurious New Years Nibs

Every New Year the clock owned by the descendants of 
King George III shutters, the bells ring, 
then the visage of George Washington appears 
and proclaims, “Influence is not government.”