Author: Herb
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More Wonderings
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Here are a few more thoughts to ponder: Why is “abbreviated” such a long word? Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice?” Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? Why is the man who invests all your money called…
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Thoughts To Ponder
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Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings, and Frogs, I just threw that last one in to see if you were paying attention. I have been pretty busy with life lately and finding time to maintain my commitment to blog every day has been tough to keep up. I have several…
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Politician's Operation
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A politician awoke in a hospital bed after a complicated operation, and found that the curtains were drawn around him. “Why are the curtains closed,” he said. “Is it night?” A nurse replied, “No, it is just that there is a fire across the street, and we didn’t want you…
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I follow Dave Barry’s blog every day. It’s less of a blog, really, but more like a news aggregator. An odd news aggregator, to be sure, but at any rate, I always find something I want to read and sometimes wish I could unread. When I saw the title of…
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Welcome New Followers!
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I will admit that I had been skeptical of some of the tools that WordPress offers. It was confusing to me to try to connect my self-hosted WordPress blog with the WordPress community, but now that I have figured it out somewhat, with the help of The Storyteller over at…
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Present, Gift Cards or Cash?
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As many of you may know, I am a fan of Miss Manners’ column and I read her column almost every day. I usually like how she answers people, gently where it needs it but snarky where snark is called for. Really, some situations in life ought to be self-explanatory…
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Three Gents
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I’m with the third guy. Three elderly gents were talking about what their grandchildren might be saying about them fifty years from now. “I would like my grandchildren to say, ‘He was successful in business,’” declared the first man. “Fifty years from now,” said the second, “I want them to…
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Cows
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After reading about Beetleypete’s thoughts about walking his dog through a field of cows it brought my mind back to growing up in America’s Dairyland. We have them here in Colorado, too. They can be dangerous but a lot of times they are merely being curious which can be just…
