Humor
How Twitter is Destroying Your Mind
It’s called parsing. It means that you cannot think of anyone or anything over 140 characters long. Each letter, number, punctuation point and space counts as a character. Twitter rules as well as destroys.
As you probably have heard around the coffee shop, Twitter is now being [...]
Are You Careful What You Wish For?
If you’ve wished for a healthy, fast-food breakfast at home, quick breads might be for you. Because they are leavened without yeast, you don’t have to wait around for them to rise. Because you can add fruit, nuts, whole grains and other good stuff to the many available recipes, quick breads are much healthier than [...]
Do You Have Time To Weight?
To lose weight requires motivation and that can be harder to find than diet books or exercise machines. Experts suggest setting goals and rewarding yourself when you reach those goals. Other suggestions include going to exercise classes, working out with a partner and keeping an exercise log. Although one exercise guru suggested putting a before [...]
Shouldn’t The “Me” In Environment Be “We”?
When I think environment, I think Smokey Bear. Smokey was created in 1944 by the Ad Council and has been part of the longest running public service campaign in U.S. history. In 1952, however, song writers Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins tried to change Smokey’s name. When they wrote their hit “Smokey The Bear”, they [...]
How ter Cure Stress Quickly and Effectively
Though this article contains valuable and useful information on curing stress, it’s also meant to be humorous. This article is written in cockney. So let’s have some fun!
Stress is the feelin’ yer cop wen yer begin ter worry, breathe rapidly, right, and tense yor scalp, Nanny Goat Race, or neck muscles. The bleedin’ stress [...]
Fire Damage Restoration 101
You’ve just lived through your worst nightmare. Your home has been damaged by a fire. Now you have to begin the process of restoring your home to its previous condition. There are several steps to be taken to reach this goal. These actions must be implemented as quickly as possible because fire damage can become [...]
Is It As American As Apple Pie?
American inventor La Marcus Adna Thompson was born in 1848 in a small town in Ohio. In spite of designing and building a butter churn at 12 and being a master carpenter at 17, he made his fortune manufacturing women’s hosiery. After a mental breakdown in the 1880’s, La Marcus sold his hosiery business and [...]
Is Inventiveness Still In?
In 1906 a 21-year-old inventor from Nova Scotia went to work in the basement of his sister’s home in New England. That’s where Alfred Fuller intended to make “the best products of their kind in the world” and that’s how he started the Fuller Brush Company. Since then the company has grown from the contents [...]
A Lollipop Lady: The Law Or Just An Easy Target?
For years we have seen the lollipop lady as a figure head in traffic calming but is she really such a strong force, what will happen if you ignore her, perhaps a fate worst than death is in hand, are we perhaps all scared that she will jump in the air and throw each side [...]
Do We Expect Too Much From Our Pets?
Pets have therapeutic value. Although studies have shown that patting a dog or cat can lower blood pressure and reduce stress, dogs and cats aren’t allowed in most hospitals and nursing homes. Baby seals, however, are – if they’re robotic baby seals. A Japanese company has created Paro, a robotic seal to be used to [...]
How Do You Put Long In Longevity?
In my search for longevity I read The Blue Zones – Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. According to this best seller, there are four areas of the world where lifestyles have enabled people to live to be over one hundred – Costa Rica, Okinawa, Sardinia and Loma Linda, California. [...]
Are The Rich Still Getting Richer?
Two years ago there were fourteen Americans on the list of the world’s twenty richest people. Now there are four. Thanks to Warren Buffett and his $62 billion, an American remains on op of the list and Buffett can thank his company, Berkshire Hathaway. Being able to float loans enables Buffett to buy a wide [...]
Is Communication Better Today?
In 1955 when researchers counted the punctuation in period texts they found a change in our way of communicating. They discovered there had been a surprising drop in semicolon usage between the 18th and 19th centuries. The drop from 68.1 semicolons per one thousand words to 17.7 was attributed to technology. What was the new [...]
What Could You Do Without?
There are lots of things I could do without – like more people moving to Southern California. Judging by the freeways, there are too many people now. There are too many mathematicians. Those are the drivers who take the shortest route between two points – which includes crossing from the far lane and cutting in [...]
The Randomness Of Funny Stuff
There are some things that are just funny whether they were intended to be or not. Like tripping over your own feet, that fall you took off of the edge of your porch, or the broken heel you got when you managed to wedge your shoe in the door to keep the elevator from closing. [...]
Christian Comedy – 7 Ways Christian Comedy Can Help Your Church With Outreach
Are you looking for an affordable, yet effective way to reach your community? One that will be an encouragement to your members, as well as a meaningful way to share God’s love with your local community? Here are 7 ways a Christian comedian can help your church provide both encouragement and outreach within your [...]
What’s New In Who Knew?
Who knew the cost of gas would triple in eight years? Wyoming pays the least for gas and California pays the most – but the cost of gas is going up all around the country. Among the reasons given for this are unstable world conditions, increased demand because China and India are becoming industrialized, OPEC [...]
What Would Change If I Ran The World?
If I ran the world, I’d outlaw rap music because – it isn’t music. It’s negative, violent, police bashing, women debasing, trash talk. It’s the kind of talk that would have gotten my sons sent to their rooms for an extended period of time. This, of course, would have been followed by complaints that such [...]
What Would We Do Without Words?
The Oxford English Dictionary contains 616,500 words and 10,000 – 20,000 of those are in the average person’s vocabulary. Unfortunately, a large percent of those words are only in our recognition vocabularies – not in our everyday speech. Maybe that’s why greeting cards are a seven and a half million dollar business. Maybe we’re willing [...]
Is Work A Four-Letter Word?
Secretary, knitting instructor, social worker, writer – I’ve enjoyed my work. I’ve also enjoyed other peoples’ work – like hairdressers. When I’m in a salon, I enjoy watching hairdressers change the look of their clients. Usually people with straight hair want curly hair and those with curly hair want straight hair; but with all the [...]
Is There A Recipe For Making Money?
Because of the importance of money, many people frame the first dollar they earned. I didn’t. Because I earned my first dollar selling lemonade, I would have had to frame four quarters. Nevertheless, because I believe it’s never too late, I framed my first earnings notification from Google. For selling ads on my blog I [...]
What’s Good About Good Health?
There are 5 components of good health. The first is genetics. Although you can’t change genetics, pharmaceutical manufacturers help us live with them. Bayer, one of the largest manufacturers of over-the-counter medications and supplements, is starting a line of products for aging baby boomers. “Nutritional Science” will feature labels that make the benefits of each [...]
Haunted Airports in Hawaii!
Kaua’i, Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places on earth to live. The island embraces you with a feeling of love and there is a pulsating spiritual energy that covers the island.
I was fortunate to live and work on the island for 5 years. I can recall several instances where I encountered ghosts [...]
Is There Humor In Politics?
Humor isn’t a word usually associated with politics, but it’s there. Abraham Lincoln, one of our most admired politicians, was good at turning insults into smiles. When Stephen Douglas called him two-faced during one of their debates, Lincoln replied, “I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I would [...]
Industrial Design Has It’s Uses – Somewhere
Look up the back of the kitchen cupboard, or under the stairs in any house in Britain and you will find a product of industrial design that has been hidden away since its first use. Get someone in the house to admit is was useless and you’re on a losing streak.
If the husband bought [...]
Can You Take The “I” Out Of Traffic?
My grandmother believed traffic was one of God’s ways to teach patience. Well, the next time you’re waiting for a red light to turn green you can think about William Potts. William Potts, a Detroit policeman, used red, amber and green railroad lights and about $37 worth of wire and electrical controls to invent the [...]
Technical Troubleshooting at ATT Yahoo for Fun, Profit and Sheer Adventure
It’s not that AT&T is a small company. Neither is Yahoo. My webhosting says AT&T Yahoo, so that should make matters simple.
My monthly billings are exquisitely accurate as any charge possible anywhere throughout the AT&T Yahoo mega system finds its way to my invoice.
Be that as it may the [...]
Things To Do With Chauffeur Car Hire
If you’ve gone to the expense of using chauffeur car hire, then you want to get your money’s worth. Drink the champagne provided, however cheap, try out all the seats, use the champagne bucket for throwing up in, wind the privacy partition up and down, up and down, up and down, hang out of the [...]
Does Anyone Study Studies?
Today there are studies for just about everything. A study comparing smokers with non-smokers found that smokers are concerned primarily with the present and non-smokers are concerned more about the future. Professional dancers were given as an example. Because their careers are short, professional dancers are more concerned about the present – and professional dancers, [...]
How Do You Manage Home Management?
I’m an in-house manager for a non-profit that’s dedicated to furthering the understanding of human development in the 21st century – or at least that’s what I tell strangers at social functions. It’s party-speak for saying I’m a wife and mother. If I’m asked, I explain I qualified for my position by getting a bachelor [...]
Does Success Make You Successful?
The U.S. has more successes than any other country. That might sound like a broad generalization, but it’s not. Australia has one town named Success. The U.S. has three – one in Arkansas, one in Missouri and one in New Hampshire. Hopefully, they compensate for Why, Arizona; Last Chance, Colorado; and Hell, Michigan.
Los Angeles is [...]
What Did Your Mother Tell You?
A mother’s work is never done. In fact, a study done by Ohio State University showed that married women with children feel more than twice as rushed in their daily lives than single women do. Their husbands, however, didn’t feel more rushed than their single counterparts. Is there something wrong with that or am I [...]
Give Me My Tooth
Do YOU know anyone who loves going to the dentist, lying flat on their helpless back, relinquishing all control over to “The Mad Dentist?”
What joy to spit blood, have needles jabbed in our swollen sore gums, pink goop crammed in our mouth for impressions, suction devices, hard plastic forced in our mouth for x-rays, [...]
The Humble Ink Cartridge Is Often Mistaken
You’d think with the advent of spell checker that mistakes would no longer be made but one rule of the typist and computer programmer is never to trust the spell checker. You would be amazed that one slip of the finger and you will write all manner of things which could be mis-construed and god [...]
What Topics Are In For Being Stressed-Out?
In this land of plenty there’s plenty to stress about. According to a survey done by Health Magazine, the biggest stressor for women is their financial situation. When the women were asked what would make them feel more in control of their finances, 29% said more money, 23% said less debt and 3% said consulting [...]
Does Charity Really Begin At Home?
When we lived on the East Coast, my husband found out charity didn’t begin next-door. That’s where having a half acre of land inspired him to become a beekeeper. He had a hive, protective clothing and a smoker – but we never had honey. A neighbor sued my husband for creating “a nuisance caused by [...]
Are We Acting Our Age?
As baby boomers lose their boom, anti-aging is becoming big business. Baby boomers were born during the post WWII years of 1946 to 1966. Now, as baby boomers slow down, they’re speeding up their search for the fountain of youth.
We all want to look younger. We try skin products, treatments and surgeries; but eventually [...]
Baby Clothes Louder Than The Baby
What is it with people making a mockery of their kids these days? Anything that makes them look ridiculous, from the funny baby t-shirts to the weird haircuts and plain silly names, anything that draws attention to their child will suffice. Even if others are laughing at them rather than with them, they don’t mind. [...]
Do We Put The Lax In Relaxation?
How relaxed would you like to be? I’d like to be so relaxed I could be in the same room with a spider without it freaking me out. Although my husband has repeatedly suggested I try aversion therapy, allowing spiders to crawl on me sounds like a “Survivor” episode I wouldn’t survive. My husband also [...]
Laughing Out Loud Online – The Key To Finding Hilarity In A Boring World
Let’s face it. We all love the Internet and its wealth of quick knowledge and information but it has also caused us all our fair share of misery.
Viruses have destroyed our hard drives, financial and sexual predators lay lurking in the shadows and everything else that could possibly be unpleasant is never more than [...]
