Osler's Razor

I will admit that it was a virtual tie this week between B, IPLawGuy, Megan Willome, and Renee. B's did something we see once in a while in haiku, tell a whole sad story, and he did it with elegance and efficiency:

boring afternoons
I hated Tom and Jerry
dad still doesn't know.

(I hope his dad doesn't read the blog)

Here was Renee's haiku:


Never caught,swift bird
Chased by Wil.E.Coyote.
Acme anvil aids.

Isn't that lovely? I love the use of "swift bird...."

Megan's got me just because of the subject matter:

Dumb Donald, Mushmouth,
Weird Harold, Bill, Russell,
Rudy, Fat Albert.

Ah, and then we have IPLawGuy. Here was his winner, which introduced me to a world I did not know:

Tobor the 8 Man
Magic Cigarettes for Strength!
was that RRL?

And now, the bio:

IPLawGuy was born in 1961 in a small town in Iowa. His parents were both word farmers, and he attributes his fascination with trade names to their bountiful harvests and endless games of Scrabble.

At a very young age, IPLG moved with his family to the suburbs of Washington DC. At least they thought that "Anacostia" was a suburb; it hand a nice-sounding name. While exploring an open-air radioactive waste dump as part of a 7th-grade field trip, IPLG was bitten in the wrist by a radioactive rat. It was only the intercession of his Timex watch that saved him from certain death. Still, he was thereafter always different.

While the rat bite did not give him the ability to fly, IPLG was briefly convinced that he had the power to become invisible. However, he realized that so long as he was wearing clothes, he could be spotted, so he attended middle school naked. Sadly, he was wrong in thinking that the rat bite had given him the power of invisibility, resulting in quite the social debacle.

Fortunately, the predictable mutation was perhaps better for IPLG and the world than flying or invisibility. The rat bite, through the Timex trademark, gave him an innate sense of Intellectual Property issues and a wonderful adaptability, both of which have served him well. However, he does not attend middle school reunions.