K.I.S.S. — part 2

This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band, but this has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad.

“Keep it simple, stupid” is how many of us first heard this.

In an era of IBM office signs saying things like “Think” it was popular in many circles.

When an early elementary school version of me tried to impress my parents at dinner one evening with my new-found wisdom of “”Keep it simple, stupid” it was met with both recognition and rebuke.

One of my parents told me the ending was wrong. “We don’t talk to people like that, calling them names.”

The other assured me the first three words were helpful. “No need to complicate anything unnecessarily.”

But “K.I.S._.” seemed incomplete.

It would be decades before I heard Mark Victor Hansen fill in the blank for me.

See you back here tomorrow.