Subj : Re: Good For Nothing
To   : Ed Vance
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Nov 08 2025 20:02:08

Ed,

 EV> A week before my appointment with a Doctor I went to Radiology
 EV> and Laboratory for tests.
 EV> When I saw the Doctor he looked at the reports and said they
 EV> were good. I told him "No one has to pay me to be good, I'm
 EV> good for nothing.".

  I have felt that way many times over the years. But, after all the
mess of 2024 with "life", I'm getting back into my hobbies, especially
BBSing and amateur radio.

 EV> The Doctor liked that and asked where I learned that saying, so
 EV> I told him I made it up by myself.

  I usually tell them "you can use it, it's free". <G>

 EV> After getting home I was thinking if I may had been repeating
 EV> one of the Abbot and Costello routines such as Whos On First or
 EV> I Can Prove You Are Not Here. Or I could have seen it in a
 EV> Burma Shave message.

  Like the criminal at his trial, where the prosecutor says he can
produce 10 people who saw the thug commit the crome...and the thug
replies "I can produce 20 people who didn't see me do it".

  Or one of the bloopers that noted "The attorney told the Sunday
School class that his client was not that guilty". :P

 EV> I thought to write you to see if you have heard that saying
 EV> before, since you post some sayings like that, or maybe someone
 EV> reading this has heard this "Good for nothing" phrase.
 EV>  and can enlighten me.

  I've heard "there's no excuse for you", and I reply "You leave my
parents out of this!!". :P

Daryl

.... I just got lost in thought.  It was unfamiliar territory.
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