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My Sister-in-Law Is Ruining the U.S. Economy
Using Technology To Avoid Commitment (The Padded Room Variety)
My Dad Has No Rhythm, Yet Is Master Of The Dance
Last Minute Gift Ideas To Keep You From Becoming Ebenezer Screwed
Homo Sapiens Vacationus At The Watering Hole
Mortal Kombat: Battle For The Monkey Bars!
Facebook Ruined My Life. Now They Must Pay
Why I Would Rather Try To Find The Funny Than The Meaning Of Life
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Tag Archives: life
Step Away From the 1040 Before Somebody Gets Hurt
Back away. Back. Away. Now. I’ve got a sharpened #2 Ticonderoga pointed at my jugular, and I’m not afraid to use it. The floor is littered with broken pencils, crumpled 8863s and tufts of naturally blond hair, pulled out by … Continue reading
Got Food? Drink? Incontinence Pads? Time To Call The IRS
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Death occurring while on-hold waiting to talk to someone about taxes is not certain, merely a very distinct possibility.) Has this ever happened to you? You’re trying to do your taxes, there’s one … Continue reading
Posted in General Ramblings, Peg-Co Catalog
Tagged business, humor, IRS, life, musings, on-hold, taxes, things that make me go "arrrrgghh!"
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The World Covers Its Ass With Yoga Pants
Women once had a dizzying array of clothing options. There were outfits for day and evening, business and sports, formal and casual. Those days are gone. Now all you need are a couple pairs of yoga pants and you’ve got … Continue reading
Posted in General Ramblings
Tagged exercise, fashion, humor, jeez do I sound old, life, musings, shopping, yoga, yoga pants
55 Comments
Hop Aboard My Roller Coaster
It’s time again for a thrill-a-minute roller coaster ride through my brain. A toilet paper roll-er coaster. Hang on. Men and women do not see the same world. Men tend to be linear thinkers who concentrate on one job until … Continue reading
Posted in General Ramblings
Tagged battle of the sexes in the bathroom, family, humor, life, musings, muti-tasking run amok, toilet paper
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One Afternoon In Downtown Ouagadougou
“Mr. Yacuba Adams!” a man exclaims as he passes another man walking down a busy street in Ouagadougou. “I hope you are in sound health and mind?” The men stop and shake hands. The sun is blazing overhead, but as … Continue reading
Gossip Is Like The Cat In The Hat’s Bathtub Ring
The next time I’m tempted to repeat some juicy gossip, I need to remind myself that it might leave a stain that is harder to clean than the Cat In The Hat’s bathtub ring. I went to dinner with a … Continue reading
Posted in General Ramblings
Tagged Dr. Seuss, gossip, humor, life, musings, my baser self, politics, The Cat In The Hat, why is it so hard to be a better me?
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Fun With Trucker’s Leapfrog
Many people think that driving a truck sounds like a boring job. While some truckers travel to exciting locations, many merely go back and forth down the same, monotonous stretch of highway. Snooze-fest, right? That’s what they want us to … Continue reading
Sir Laughs-a-Lot And the WordPress Humor Round-table
I was thrilled when Michelle W., WordPress editor and semi-colon expert extraordinaire, asked me to join a round-table with other humorists. I thought I’d use Sir Laughs-a-lot for my knightly title. And, of course, I assumed we would get chain … Continue reading
Posted in General Ramblings
Tagged blog, blogging, Discover, humor, life, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, musings, shameless self-promotion, SNL Jeopardy, WordPress, writing
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Show The Girl A Good Time
I haven’t had a date since the Carter administration, so excuse me if I sound like an old fuddy-duddy when I say: we used to set the bar a bit higher. My friend Bridget flew into Chicago a couple of … Continue reading
Crouching Tiger, Crapping Coyote
The good thing about nature is how it’s so natural. Except when it’s unnatural, or even supernatural. It’s colder than bedamned here in Illinois but, and here’s the great part, we haven’t had any snow or ice to speak of. … Continue reading
Posted in General Ramblings
Tagged geese, Guy Fleegman, humor, life, musings, nature, walking, Wile E. Coyote
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