Category: Humor
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The Associated Press reports that the US Border Patrol is having a tough time retaining recruits to work along the border with Mexico. Apparently the agency loses 30% of its recruits (costing $14,000 per head in training) within the first 18 months of their joining the force. The job is tough as the opening line…
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Apropos of my recent post on the reckless decision by a Texas school district, see the the following editorial cartoon by Nick Anderson in today’s Houston Chronicle.
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Came across some funny anti-motivational posters (via Shunya’s Notes). Also discovered that the website lets you create your own parody posters. I designed a few using some photos in my computer archive. Click for enlargement and let me know what your message would be for these photos.
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In older agrarian and trade based societies, names often reflected people’s vocations or otherwise described their position in a place or tribe. Some South Indian and Scandinavian names derive from the father’s first name rather than the family name (a similar system existed among older Jewish cultures). Names like Smith, Miller, Fletcher, Bauer, Baker etc.…
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All over the city, stands and tents have sprouted up hawking Phantom Fireworks. I can’t even go to my local grocery without seeing piles and piles of tempting displays of assorted sparklers, Roman candles and small rockets all packaged together and tempting me as I rush to grab a carton of milk. (Location, location is…
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Found this useful internet tool – it measures the cussing level on blogs by comparing the number of pages containing cuss words to the total number of pages published on the website. The average rate of cussing on blogs is 10%. A.B. rates low at 3.2% – registering around the "Darn It" region. (We cuss…
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Humorist Dave Barry’s journal of colonoscopy. (link from a friend who recently had hers) An excerpt: I left Andy’s office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called ”MoviPrep,” which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it…
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Recently Matt went to an art show. He saw art and he met people. During the course of events the artist informed him that computers have watered down our lives like ice does to Coke. But Matt wasn’t drinking Coke – with or without ice. He drank beer and ran into some obstacles with the…
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Cross-posted from Fluff-n-Stuff ——————————————————– A few days ago, I opened my morning paper to a surprise news item crowing about a plan to distribute free ‘Pittsburghized’ New Testaments to over 250,000 subscribers. Now, I am well used to eating my morning cereal from the little sample boxes that I pick up with my newspaper, or…
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