I don't know where our old friend and editor of Scuttlebutt, Tom Leweck, gets these closing dittys he run's in each day's issue called, variously, the Curmudgeon's Conundrum or, more often, the Curmudgeon's Observation. Some are pretty lame, some are funny as hell, and every now and then one appears to have been cleverly chosen to add subtle commentary to a particular story or letter in that issue (often the final letter just above the Curmudgeon's Observation).

This morning's, I guess, was just in the funny category and made me LOL -- "laugh out loud" in IM or TXT speak -- sitting here in a quiet, dark house at 06:00 on a very cool (10 deg C / 50 deg F) morn in Valencia while trying to wake up, read my mail and scan the various websites, and, for a change, get warm....

CURMUDGEON'S OBSERVATION
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call
it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

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