Why Did I Get Up This Morning?

(Tue Oct 23rd, 2007, by James L. Snyder)

All day long, I've had this burning question in my mind. One of those questions you just cannot shake and as the day progressed, it loomed larger and larger until I had to address it. Personally, I would like to have address it, put a stamp on it and...

Useless Facts And Fun Trivia Questions And Answers

(Tue Oct 16th, 2007, by Deanna Mascle)

Question: Which is stronger -- concrete or bone? Answer: Bone Useless Fact: Human bones can actually resist 40 times more stress than concrete. Don't believe it is true? Then picture a piece of concrete the size of a bone and imagine how easily it wo...

How Not to Catch a Mouse

(Tue Oct 16th, 2007, by Jeanette Barron)

Some years ago I looked up from my dining room table into the kitchen and saw a mouse strolling along the kitchen counter. My dilemma: I wanted him out of my apartment, but I didn't want to kill him. I wanted him to either leave my apartment, never t...

On A Retired Cop's Wedding Reception

(Tue Oct 9th, 2007, by VMT Singuillo)

After three failed marriages, a newly retired cop married a very young wife. At the wedding reception, the emcee requested him to stand in front of the guests. The emcee pulled out a military belt with all its military accessories from a bag and ask...

The Annual Halloween Costume Drama

(Tue Oct 9th, 2007, by Beth McCain)

Mom dreaded Halloween when my brother and I were kids. On the one hand my brother, Kevey, could always be conned by Mom into "being something easy." He was a ghost every year of his young life. But unlike most ghosts, he was never completely white; i...

Disciplinary Loaf

(Tue Oct 9th, 2007, by Beth McCain)

An indubitable fact: my grandma, Nannie, could make the best Snickerdoodle cookies. Pity, then, that this is not her claim to fame (or is it infamy) in her small hometown. For it is there, in the otherwise peaceful agricultural environs of California...

Good Humor Quotations From My Great Wife

(Tue Oct 2nd, 2007, by John Joon)

Quotation #1: Great Wife: Do you love me? Husband: Yap. Great Wife: What is "yap", what is your meaning? Husband: Love! Great Wife: Whom do you love? Husband: You! Great Wife: No! You better say it clearly. Husband: Alright. Great Wife: Hurry up, say...

Great Wall Of China To Be Repaired With Lead-Tainted Toys

(Tue Oct 2nd, 2007, by Tom Attea)

Remember the lifelong anxiety you've experienced, worrying about the crumbling of The Great Wall of China? Fret no more. Now, humanity longest tribute to war-wrought paranoia will be on the mend. It seems the enterprising communist nation has an abu...

Caught by alligators, saved his life

(Tue Oct 2nd, 2007, by Markus Fish)

Inverness, FL - A 71-yearl-old man fell off a dock and into the jaws of an alligator but said his knowledge of reptiles, gained from watching wildlife programs on television, helped him escape. "I wasn't a bit afraid. I knew what they usually do," sa...

Mahmoud And The Talking Camel

(Tue Oct 2nd, 2007, by Tom Attea)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the feisty and foolish President of Iran, was coming back from one of his frequent addresses to students, who always agree with him 100%, when a camel walked out onto the road his limo was zipping along. "Look, a camel," called h...