What’s the smartest form of government? Thomas Jefferson was smart enough to know that in a democracy we get to choose the people who will then screw up our lives….. But, in a monarchy the people who will screw up our lives are chosen by divine right, which proves that God has no better luck […]
Oh, this is fitting. Schmuck by the pool trying to impress a gal and ends up costing his company million$. A Sony Music promo exec unknowingly sparked Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s major payola investigation when he started hitting on a woman at a poolside bar at a Miami hotel last year. The exec bragged about […]
In the old Soviet Union, it was illegal to play the game of Monopoly…….. Scrabble was legal, but all triple-word bonus scores probably had to be distributed equally among the collective players for the greater glory of the game masses………
Which is the smarter choice: draft beer or Genuine Draft Beer?…… Seems like a question of taste rather than intelligence…….. But, nothing is simple in an age where your share of the advertising costs more than your share of the beer……. Real draft beer is better if you like good beer….. Genuine Draft Beer is […]
In 1971, A Pennsylvania attorney brought a lawsuit against the Devil……. It was thrown out of court because the judge ruled that Satan was not a Pennsylvania resident……… I wonder “where the Devil” his residence is anyway?……..
I hope Jek’s hall project doesn’t turn out like this: Here’s how they get things done in Washington: The Dirksen Building was built in 1958 for senatorial offices….. When the building was finished, they discovered that the floor was too slippery….. So they covered it with carpet….. But the carpet was too thick so the […]
In 1996, a Pennsylvania man was arrested for harassment because every time he saw his ex-wife he oinked at her……. Someone I know coined the term “Pork Snort”…….. I wonder if that term applied in this case?……… (I know it’s not nice to make fun of those afficted with, shall we say, added poundage, but […]
First, sorry ’bout these little short posts, but I’m stuck in Nashville right now being a care giver for a friend that is going through a bone marrow transplant……. I was hoping some of you out there would take up the slack……. Please post anything (well, maybe not anything)…… While visiting Japan in 2002, President […]
Most Rock ‘n’ Roll musicians and fans probably already know this, but here it is anyway……. Doug Ingle of the band Iron Butterfly was tring to write a song called “In the Garden of Eden.”……. But according to the band’s drummer, Ron Bushy, Doug drank too much red wine…… When he tried to sing the […]
When cars first came to Tennessee, the city of Memphis passed a statute that a woman could drive only if a man walked in front of the car and waved a red flag to warn pedestrians of approaching danger…….. Should they do this in Seattle?………. (How much flack am I going to get over this?)…….
In Tacoma, Washington, a woman with a brain tumor went into a drugstore to get a prescription refilled for painkillers….. The pharmacist thought the prescription was fake, so he called the cops and had her arrested…. The woman tried to explain that she got the same refill at the same store every month…….. She asked […]
We have a new nominee for this year’s Darwin Awards. Via The Seattle Times… The man, who has not been identified by investigators, and another man, age 31, had been drinking and were trying to see who could hang above the interstate from the Olive Way overpass the longest, Seattle police spokeswoman Debra Brown said. […]
In the fifteenth century an English bishop named Reginald Pecock tried to purify the English language by getting rid of words of Latin orgin…….. His idea ran out of popular steam when he recommended such changes as “inconceivable” to “nottobethoughtable.”……….
“Newscreep”, Ah…. I mean “Newsweek” beat me to this post… I had been saving it for awhile and just kept forgetting to post it…… The May 23 issue has an “exclusive excerpt” from a book on George Washington by David McCullough….. The excerpt makes a slight mention of my following “Military Unintelligence” from my WELL, […]
An anonymous critic once sent a letter to minister Henry Ward Beecher……. The letter contained only a single word: “Fool.”…… No one ever received a better set-up line, and Beecher made the most of it….. “I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name,” he told […]