Pragmatism in Shaving

Pragmatism in Shaving
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Pragmatism in Shaving As the Footloose Forester wanders through the maze forest of advertising, he discovered that he is a lonely traveler as critic, most of the time.  Years ago, when he discovered that the...
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AI Matey Analysis and Critique of a Humorous Chronicle

AI Matey Analysis and Critique of a Humorous Chronicle
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    AI Matey Updates a Chronicle About Smoking or Non-Smoking on Airplanes   The Footloose Forester hopes to share a few thoughts that may be hard to swallow, about how things used to be on commercial...
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USPS- Huh?

USPS- Huh?
  On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The US Postal Service Has a Few Problems   This is not a normal Chronicles of a Footloose Forester posting, but readers will get the point. It may get filed under the Humor category...
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Fli Li on the Menu

Fli Li on the Menu
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Fli Li on the Menu     Backpackers at the youth hostel in Calcutta were eager to share information about places to stay and what to eat in Bangkok. They were headed west and the...
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Déjà Vu and Cognitive Dissidence, All Over Again

Déjà Vu and Cognitive Dissidence, All Over Again
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Déjà Vu and Cognitive Dissidence, All Over again   Youse guys and gals out there, the ones wit da big vocabularies, might get a chuckle or two about how dis jerk who calls himself the...
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Tiger Dao's Great Tomato Caper

Tiger Dao's Great Tomato Caper
   On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Tiger Dao's Great Tomato Caper   When Footloose Forester asked Copilot about why certain vegetables should be avoided, the helpful response was:    🥦 Ah, the infamous “vegetable to avoid” ad—often more clickbait than culinary...
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15 Ways to Contact How can i speak to someone at United™ Air Lines Care: A Step by Step Complete Guide

To reach a live person at United Airlines customer service for support, you can call their 24/7 (1-833-990-3000) United Airlines Phone number hotline at 1-833-990-3000 OTA (Live Person) or 1-800-United Airlines 1-833-990-3000. You can also use the live chat feature on their website or reach out to them via email. Speaking...
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Chat gpt is an AI accomplice in creating fantasy

Chat gpt is an AI accomplice in creating fantasy
     On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Chat gpt (and others) Create Their Own Fantasies          When the Footloose Forester asked an AI program to describe a typical day of an alter-ego writer, this was the reply:   ...
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On Geezering

On Geezering
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Geezering   Young whippersnappers probably don’t like to be referred to that way, especially by old geezers who defensively show their maturity by the sounds of their creaky bones and by their yellowing teeth. ...
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An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions

An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions   My sincere apology to you, Copilot if I have offended your sensibilities.  When in the past I have taken issue with the disadvantages and pitfalls of...
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Chinese Party Balloon

Chinese Party Balloon
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Chinese Party Balloon     The humor category of Chronicles of a Footloose Forester is pretty skimpy, not that there is no humor in the world. Lest the world forgets, however; more than a few comedians have...
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Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear

Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear   Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy Was he?   2 nd Grade Teacher:  “Now children, for your homework I want you to go home...
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Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand

Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand   For some time now, the Footloose Forester has wanted to add a humorous chronicle to his collection of seminal musings. In the LegacyStories.org website that serves as...
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Bucket Lists

Bucket Lists
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Bucket Lists     Oftentimes it takes a trigger for us to reflect on our own views, opinions, and actions.  Forming those views and opinions are the raw ingredients leading to intended actions.  Mostly we keep views to...
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The Bug Zapper

The Bug Zapper
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Bug Zapper     Not many people who lived in the valley where the Saó Jorge dos Orgaós research station was located had electric power.  In fact, it would be accurate to say that the only people...
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The Parody Defense, With An AI Supporter

The Parody Defense, With An AI Supporter
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    The Parody Defense   Only once in a while does the forgotten, third-rate would-be crafter of parody who calls himself the Footloose Forester get a response to his missives. He would prefer kudos but, alas, when the infrequent...
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Smoking or Non-Smoking?

Smoking or Non-Smoking?
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Smoking or Non-Smoking? Many moons have risen and set since the last time that the Footloose Forester was in the mood to write a chronicle that belongs in the Humor genre, with an unstated theme of “you just...
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For Sale - Moral Compass

For Sale - Moral Compass
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Fantastic Sale - Moral Compass   Own a piece of history.             Order your very own Moral Compass.                         Designed and field tested in the USA.                                     Made in China by factory representatives of noted fabricators.                                                 Don’t...
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Breaking and Entering: A Story of Father-Son Bonding

As a child my family, like most American families at the time, would take a road trip somewhere during our vacation, stopping in various places along the way.  This time my parents took my sister and myself to Canada, with the obligatory stop at Mount Rushmore along the way. Once in...
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Horsing Around

I've always had a complicated relationship with horses.  I love them but that doesn't mean they necessarily liked me back.  I think they can tell I don't really know what I'm doing.  One time I was on a trail ride.  Mom was paying for horseback riding lessons.  We only went a...
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