Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

Mother Superior: "Sister Maria, if you walk through town at night, and you're accosted by a man with bad intentions, what would you do?"

Sister Maria: "I would lift my habit, mother Superior."

Mother Superior (shocked): "And what would you do next?"

Sister Maria: "I would tell him to drop his pants."

Mother Superior: (even more shocked) "And what then?"

Sister Maria: "I would run away. I can run much faster with my habit up than he can with his pants down!"

I've just spent a couple of hours reading a couple of timelines on an alternative history website; in one timeline Genghis Khan dies young and so the Mongol Empire is never created, and in the other one there has just been a localised war between Spain and Morocco. Since I'm interested in both history and science fiction, these 'what if' scenarios nicely combine the two.

A slight variation known as 'future history' consists of future timelines...these can get a bit silly at times though when people's imaginations run away with them.

I don't like this weather at all. It was freezing fog earlier this morning and I was coughing all the time as I was shopping. Looks like it will be sunny a bit later though; but still cold.

A doctor who had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life
finally retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her to bring
a list of all the medicines that had been prescribed for her. As the
young doctor looked through the list, his eyes grew wide as he realized
she had a prescription for birth control pills. “Mrs. Smith, do you
realize these are BIRTH CONTROL pills?!?”
“Yes, they help me sleep at night.”
“Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely NOTHING in these that
could possibly help you sleep!”
She reached out and patted the young Doctor’s knee. “Yes, dear, I know
that. But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in the glass of
orange juice that my 16-year-old granddaughter drinks… And believe
me, it helps me sleep at night!”