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Politician's Operation
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…
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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…
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Welcome New Followers!
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,…
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Present, Gift Cards or Cash?
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,…
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Three Gents
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…
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Cows
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…
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Arthritis?
A man who smelled like a distillery flopped on a subway seat next to a priest. The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half-empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket.…
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Mom's Poster
As I was strolling along through the archives, in a blogging folder from 2005, I found a file titled, “Mom’s Poster.” Neither one of us remembers the exact circumstances that caused it, but the message is pretty clear. I think it was…
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