I like that, Ginger. Reading upside down is a valuable skill. In fact, my manager used that skill on me today, by reading my annual evaluation to me while it was facing me and he was across the table. He did quite well at it, too.

Reading upside down is a valuable skill.

It was pretty useful to me as a reporter, too. Nothing on a desk was safe. Eventually I also learned to read backwards, to proof hot lead.

There's a ps and qs and ds and bs joke in there somewhere.

Mind your P's and Q's did come from printing, because they're hard to tell apart, particularly when you're setting type by hand.

I always heard it was from "mind your pints and quarts" for tavern patrons so they knew what their tab was at the end of the night.

I just meant that I had as much trouble with db as with qp.

Good thing you have a d and p then, a little less confusion.

Drabble: upside down

My introduction to basic aerobatics started okay with a simple barrel roll, but at the top of the first loop the instructor changed his mind and just held us inverted -- with no warning, the bastard.

The only visible sign that there was something -- anything -- between me and the planet suspended over my head was one-sixteenth of an inch of dusty Lexan. I clutched at my shoulder straps for reassurance that I wasn't going to fall out.

Then he said, "Hey, I've never stalled inverted in this model." Followed by, "Wow, I didn't know it would do that."

Double bastard.

"Wow, I didn't know it would do that."

That sounds like they could have been famous last words. Wow.

My favorite redneck joke:
"What are a redneck's last words?"
"Y'all watch this..."