Sniggerlings: "'Battling Zimmermans' and 'Sparrow for Lunch'"

Sniggerlings(iii)

      1. The other day my wife told me she had watched a movie on Netflix that she’d been wanting to watch for weeks. It starred Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was about mercenaries who have to be violent, seek revenge, get payback, use force, swear, and look good in their fatigues despite being old. She said the name of the movie was The Expandables 2. I said, "That’s The Expendables 2; the way you said it, it sounded like their biggest enemy was their waistlines.” Then she looked at my waistline as if to say, “Well, in their case, the good guys won.”Heehee

      2. A lot of publicity recently about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. In that case, George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder on all charges. This makes George Zimmerman the third most famous Zimmerman in history. Can you name the other two?

       Answer: (A)Arthur Zimmerman, foreign minister of Germany whose famous telegram in 1917 was one reason the U.S. got into World War 1. Zimmerman promised Mexico would receive Texas and the rest of the Southwest if it supported Germany(rumor is, Barak Obama has made the same offer recently.) (B) Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan*.

       *I was reminded of Bob Dylan’s real name in an episode of Simon and Simon from about 1983 in which the clue that unearthed the killer was “Highway 61” The murder victim was a rock ‘n’ roll DJ and the murderer was named “Zimmerman“. Pretty cool. Heehee

      3.  We were apartment hunting recently when a manager took us through the laundry room to see the pool.  A sparrow had become trapped in the room and was banging its beak and wings into the windows, trying to get out.  We were concerned and went to rescue the thing, but a maintenance man appeared and walked over to the bird to carefully scoop it up.  He carried it outside, then turned to the manager and told her he was going to have lunch.  I thought he said it ominously, and I feared he would have to pluck some feathers for lunch, but my wife said I was being silly.  I said, "Did you ever see him let the little bird go?"  She said no but still maintained I was silly.  I don't know; I remember "The Shining", and Ozzie Osbourne once ate the head off a bat!