Monkey’s Uncle

I have been searching high and low, low and high, and under certain suspicious-looking rocks for a clever idea to post.  Alas for me I never found one, so you will have to bear with me as I post on a very interesting subject, that is, nothing.

It happens to be the only word that compensates for almost anything. For instance-

“Dick, what are you doing in the cookie jar?”

Slight rustle. “Nothing.”

And-

“Well hello there! what have you been up to lately?”

Here the person pauses…either he has been doing something too sneaky to tell of, or has been doing something too long to speak of, or done something so wonderful and nice it will look braggy to mention it, even in an offhand way.  So in reply they promptly say-

“Nothing.”

This clever word can also give you a personality.  It can make you look intelligent, or average, unimpressive, rude, or humble, it can get you promoted or can take your job away, it can make people wish to spit on you, or can make them follow you around all day trying to look like they just happened to be at all five stores you went to.

As you can clearly see, we have taken one of the most important words in all of history for granted.

And I have nothing more to say about it.

-Wardly

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