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Published Friday, January 27, 2012 in Opinion

Man shows nothing is 'half-done'

Man's behavior is sometime strange and difficult to understand.

If you don't believe it, ask the woman who owns one, and she is likely to agree with the statement.

This week I was reading in a dictionary of thoughts and came across this quotation: "Man is nature's sole mistake."

The statement seems harsh and cruel to lump all men together and denounce them as a whole. There are some good and great men. I lean toward the quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson:

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us."

Men do make mistakes, and getting them to admit it is a challenging task. For example, a man In Tennessee stabbed himself in the abdomen with a meat thermometer.

When police visited him in the hospital, they asked him a question that many might think needs an answer concerning the reason he poked a meat thermometer into his stomach.

I am pleased to report that he did not reply with a flippant answer like: "Just because the meat thermometer and my stomach were there."

No, he came up with a reply often used in the kitchen when meat is cooking.

The police reported: "The man said he wanted to see if he was done or not."

As police took the necessary steps to make certain he was in a place where he could not again hurt himself, they declared: "No matter what the meat thermometer said, we think the man is done."

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