Saturday, July 10, 2010

A Franc for your Nothing

Those moviephiles who enjoy viewing the classics, will no doubt remember the dialogue between Ric and Ilsa:
A franc for your thoughts.
In America they'd bring only a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth.

More than likely Humphrey Bogart was thinking nothing, and that sounds like a bargain that might be too good to be true. Get a penny for doing and thinking absolutely nothing.
Men are often asked this question when there are those remote and welcomed silences between partners.
What are you thinking?

No stereotyping about either sex; however, ladies can not wrap their minds around the concept of "nothing".
Nothing.
What do you mean "nothing"?

One would not call the man's mind, at this point, a black hole - after all a black hole is something.
You must be thinking something.

As if coming out of a trance:
uh-uh.

It has been said that Buddha searched for nothingness or emptiness. Guys have been doing this forever. Perhaps Buddha was raised by women who could not allow him to embrace this ideological behavior pattern exclusive to men - along with others like autogenitaliodisplasia, rancid hyper-dyspepsia, and belching, and quite probably all three at the same time.
To allay any fears or suspicion, let it be said that 99.9% of the time that a man states that he is thinking nothing, you may rest with a great deal of certainty that nothing is exactly what he mauling over, but even that is thinking something.
Never mind.
Have you ever heard yourself blink? Isn't it glorious?

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