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[caddyman]

I have spent today walking on eggshells. I have tried desperately not to do anything that might invite retribution from the karma pixies. They like balance, you see; it's a yin-yang sort of thing. Whenever something good happens there must be an equivalent restorative downside elsewhere.

So I have spent the day trying my absolute best to ensure that any karmic-balance restoring does not come my way, because if it does it will be a bloody corker to make up for the positive swing my life has taken. I have a theory (untested) that if I can maintain the world as it is right now for long enough, that THIS will become the default setting, and the balance will always re-set to this.

So, to placate the karma pixies, I have a plan. For the next few days I shall spend an appropriate part of each day patting rabid old ladies on the head, and helping dogs to cross the road.

Some time not too far distant, I intend to hit the town. I hope it doesn't hit back.

Comments

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

I don't know what a stotgun is, but it sounds like it would bring down a Luftwaffe bomber without too much difficulty.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

It's hard to describe, but is weasely used.

I'm glad you asked...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Some may think that this was a simple typo, the use of the word, "stotgun". Not so.

A stotgun is a device for shooting sticky buns at people, developed for vaudevillains' crowd-control gags in Geordie Music Halls around 1889.

The idea was later picked up in the old Hollywood silents by the Keystone Kops (qv), and led directly to the concept of the sticky-bun fight and thence to the pie in the face gag.