Let’s face it. English doesn’t always make sense. HOMONYMS sound the same, but don’t mean the same TO-TOO-TWO all sound the same. The first is a pronoun. The second means “also” and the final is a number. ONE-WON – unless… Read More ›
#Humor
MEDIA WAR STORIES EPISODE 15
WHATEVER YOU THOUGHT WAS TRUE? IT WAS TRUE. MAYBE WORSE THAN YOU IMAGINED. Another week, another podcast! This episode Garry talks about giving Mickey Rooney racing tips and Tom talks about the difference between working on The Joan Rivers Show… Read More ›
ALMOST SPRING
Share Your World 27th March Much to my chagrin, we are “rebounding” on COVID. Not seriously, but enough so I feel like the progress I made is disappearing. I’m not desperately ill, but I’m not where I hoped I’d be by… Read More ›
MY WEEKLY SPAM-O-METER
Spam Comment of the Week — Week 9 2023 I did what Fandango suggested and removed commenting on old posts. It didn’t remove spam, but it reduced it from hundreds a day to just a few. It has begun to rise… Read More ›
SPAM DU JOUR
Spam Comment of the Week — Week 46 2022 Oh the magic of spam! Aimed at everyone or no one, does anyone think we are going to respond to these “messages”? Who would that be? Maybe someone too old to understand… Read More ›
DOES YOUR DOCTOR HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR?
I had to call the doctor today. I was feeling really lousy and I was beginning to get the feeling it was going to be like this forever. Of course, now Garry feels the same way and I think Owen… Read More ›
QUESTIONS – TIME OVER COFFEE
Question Time Over Coffee – 11’ish Questions Once a Week This caught my eye because it asked a question to which I actually have an answer. I got the answer because at one point — briefly — I was a… Read More ›
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A MISMARKED MEASURING CUP?
Well, there were two problems. The first is that 1/4 cup is at two different levels on either side of the cup. You could put that down to some of the ounces being Imperial and the other being American, but… Read More ›
THEY DON’T CALL US TURKEYS FOR NOTHING
A couple of day ago, we probably destroyed half of our new brakes and skinned our tires trying to not run over a “rafter” of turkey hens who had to cross the road exactly when there was traffic. We don’t… Read More ›
WHAT WOULD STEVE McQUEEN HAVE DONE?
It must be payback. Karma, hubris, or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night when… Read More ›
BEAM ME SOMEWHERE
As airlines make traveling by air increasingly miserable, unfriendly, and physically uncomfortable, those of us who yearn to travel but abhor airports and airplanes have been waiting for teleportation. You know. “Scotty, beam me up” and off you go to… Read More ›
KILLING HIM WITH KINDNESS
Someone on Twitter asked how we (I assume anyone reading the tweet) would feel if Trump got life in prison. I thought that wasn’t nearly enough punishment for him. I want him to be forced to sit in a well-lighted… Read More ›
DO YOU NEED A NEW ALUMINUM FOIL CAP? YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.
Once upon a time, we thought this kind of thing was confined to the nutcases you met in regular life. You think you know someone. You hang out, exchange emails. Make a few jokes. Maybe you work with them. Then, one… Read More ›
SPAM, SCAM, WHAM
It used to be you only got spam on your computer. It was annoying and could be dangerous to the health and well-being of your computer and potentially, your life savings. These days, where there is any type of communications,… Read More ›
WORLD SHARING IN MID-AUGUST
Share Your World 15th August Thank you, Di, for keeping this going! I’m hoping we find out how Melanie is doing soon, too. Hard to believe it’s the middle of August. Summer has slipped by in a haze of broiling hot… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 