Tag: humor monday
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May 05, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
In March, John Philipp wrote an article about writing calendar humor, though what is funny about calendars, I sure don't know. Mine has yet to tell a single joke. It's all about numbers, and numbers, . . .
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May 26, 2008 12:16 AM EDT --
Memorial Day weekend is more than barbecues, hot dogs, and drinking too much cold beer. I know. Came as a shock to me, too. But it's a time of reflection, of remembering, of thinking about . . .
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June 23, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
Unlike snowflakes, faces are not all unique. There are only so many faces in the world, and after you've lived four or five decades, you've seen them all. Everyone reminds you of someone . . .
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July 21, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
It was a dark and stormy night.
Silas Slovotsky leaned back in his chair and studied the words he'd typed into his computer.
He grinned. Perfect. The very words he needed to set the . . .
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August 04, 2008 05:20 AM EDT --
Some may say: "it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it." The male stick insect copulates with the female for 10 weeks straight without pause and all the poor lady wants . . .
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November 24, 2008 12:27 PM EST --
Tom milled around the prison yard with the other inmates, waiting for the sound of death. There would be no stay of execution for their condemned mate, who would die in a most barbaric way.
"They . . .
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December 29, 2008 12:35 AM EST --
I never have enough time for all the nothing I want to do, so I planned to do nothing for Christmas. I am such a procrastinator that I will do anything to keep from doing what I'd planned to . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:49 PM EST --
Wow, it has been a long time. So long, in fact, it is difficult to remember the character's names.
But the script and casting is superb. Marc Cherry done good.
Dave Williams is even more . . .
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March 23, 2009 12:16 AM EDT --
I seem to have sidled into the book review business. Well, not business exactly, because no one is going to pay me, but a few people asked me to review their books, and I volunteered to review a few others, . . .
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November 22, 2009 11:52 PM EST --
Last week I carried a sign. It was a political sign. Not one to end a war or allow or disallow abortions or to legalize California's largest cash crop. The sign I carried had a name on it, a person . . .
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June 16, 2008 02:40 AM EDT --
You're at the computer, reading and typing in a cacophony of joy. You're on Gather, of course.
In your own space, your own time. Suddenly, your cat jumps up to the keyboard, steps on the . . .
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March 24, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
AAAAAAAA! Don't get me wrong, I love my husband. I just love him better when I don't have to spend every day with him.
I'm used to nice, quiet, peaceful days. . . .
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March 24, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
Oh, lend me your ears as I tell you
A housewife's lament, both sad and true
How her trusty helper passed away
And how her tears fell on that fateful day.
A day like any other, . . .
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April 07, 2008 06:30 PM EDT --
If E=MC squared
an Pi is three fourteen
If man has solved the riddles of time
and all the wonders unseen
If man has made it to the stars
and contemplates galaxies
If ancient . . .
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February 18, 2008 12:23 PM EST --
I've been reading the novels of a bestselling author, trying to figure out the secret of her success, and for the life of me, I don't see it. Perhaps it's hidden beneath her appalling . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:05 AM EDT --
In my green article for St. Patrick's Day, I wrote, "Owning a dark green vehicle supposedly means that you are traditional, trusty, and well balanced, but what it really means is that . . .
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August 25, 2008 12:43 AM EDT --
When I was out walking this morning, enjoying one of the last hot days of summer, a dusty red pickup pulled up next to me. A man with a weathered face tipped his hat and said, "Howdy, Ma'am." . . .
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September 08, 2008 12:12 AM EDT --
With apologies to Judith Viorst.
Rewritten but originally written in 2006. Presented now for Back to School and Back to Pre-School.
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February 01, 2009 10:34 PM EST --
Little Kathy at 4
Well, when Kathy was a girl of 4, she loved to get up early.
I mean early. 6 a.m early.
Particularly if everyone else in the neighborhood . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:27 AM EDT --
It's time for "Ask Monsieur Wineau", a question and answer column by the man who is perhaps the World's Greatest Authority on wine. Perhaps.
Dear M. Wineau,
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