Accidental Blogger

A general interest blog

Category: Humor

  • (Cross posted from Fluff ‘n’ Stuff) Of late, I have been assiduously adopting a laissez-faire attitude to the dust bunnies breeding in the corners, ceiling cobwebs, pasta sauce and chocolate stains on the floor.What is life, but a giant round of cleanup, followed within minutes by dirt from the muddy outdoors, spilt milk and cookie…

  • Very funny ! (via Crooked Timber)

  • "An Israeli and a Palestinian are watching a Western. In the movie, a cowboy is riding bareback on a particularly wild horse. The Israeli, being aggressive, says to the Palestinian, "I’ll bet you 10 shekels he falls." The Palestinian, being impulsive, replies immediately, "I’ll bet you he doesn’t." The cowboy falls, and the Palestinian forks…

  • Did you believe that your zodiac sign could influence your driving abilities?  Silly as it may seem, some insurance companies actually think so! (Only, the worst and best signs seem to vary from year to year, so take heart all you Librans and beware all you Leos!) Intelligent Design (-ers, -ees, -ists, whatever…) , watch…

  • After the horrors of plumbophobia , the next big meme in the media : Cough syrups and how bad they are for the youngest and most vulnerable among us. From the MSNBC article: Over-the-counter cough syrups generally contain drugs in too low a dose to be effective, or contain combinations of drugs that have never…

  • A few interesting links I picked up over the past week: Morford and the Art of Zen Maintenance The Thinking Baboons Right Brain or Left : Which type are you? JK Rowling vs. Parvati (the deity, not the Hogwarts student) Colbert ,NYTimes columnist?!! 

  • You didn’t hear about Nelson Mandela’s death, did you?  Neither did I or the rest of the world. But George W. Bush, the president of the most powerful nation in the world thinks Mandela is dead. Not just that – but that Saddam Hussein may have killed him. How’s that for breaking news?  I watched…

  • Last week I reported the story of Glenn McDuffie, the Houston man who was recently identified as the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in the celebrated 1945 Life magazine photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The picture seen and recognized by millions, is an historical moment captured by a photographer’s lens, marking the end of…