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The Real You!
While checking out an MSNBC article about Latisse, the “eyelash enhancer.” that can grow hair in “unintended places” change the color of eyes and other great things. I found these sites: Truthinaging.com and Realself.com which...
Easy Open?
I have a running battle with easy-open containers. Most of them aren’t. Medicine bottles with the cryptic “Push & Turn” instructions. Tabs on boxes that dispense paper cuts as often as the contents. Plastic packs that slice &...
Tossed In Space
Image via Wikipedia I have just watched Suart Brown’s TED talk: Why Play is Vital - No Matter Your Age. Play. When did we get so serious? We’re even serious about humor. Somehow somewhere we seemed to get the idea that to be serious, we have t...
Texas Best Lawyers 2009 - Hmmmmm
I don’t know about you, but I am suspicious of ranking any group whose JOB is to find loopholes. Woodward/White, Inc. publish this list and have a trademark on “Best Lawyers.” This reminds me of Hallmark Cards, who created Mother...
Working Naked
As interesting as the title is, unless you are a porn star, most of us do not “work naked.” But my friend Lisa Kanarek, has great site by that same name Working Naked that deals with how to be productive when all of the corporate support ...
Humor Up Monday
Noodling around the net I found some useful links for your humor edification. Great post by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times regarding telling jokes: Parrot asks, “What’d the frozen turkey want?” A joke should have the perfectio...
Exercising the What Ifs
Image via Wikipedia A real key to seeing the funny, is seeing the “What ifs.” Here is something you can do to help develop those “What If” muscles. The game is called “Objects” and requires the name of a small i...
What are you? Broke? or Stupid?
I met a mobile home salesman once who told me this was one of his most successful closes. When a “good ol’ boy” just couldn’t make up his mind… A little jab at the ego often was just the leverage needed to close the deal...
Stop Me Before I Spin Again!
Several years ago the Plano Star Courier reported that more students had passed a particular test than the year before. While the Dallas Morning News reported that the passing rate for this test was ten per cent lower as compared to the previous year...
Alternate Realities
I’m Undecided About Ambiguity Our church has a sign in the hall that reads: (Emphasis added.) Work as if what you do matters. This is meant as a pep talk for staff and parishioners. Change the emphasis and it could as easily be read as a defe...
Can You Find The Labels?
Continuing our discussion started in Cognomen Label Sobriquet. Stimulus Slush Fund for Housing Entitlement Thugs… From GOPUSA Parroting GOP, Dittohead Limbaugh dutifully launches false ACORN attack……From Media Matters. Gotta go. I...
Becoming Audience
This past Sunday I was attending Sunday School and the teacher was discussing ethics and the issues we face today. He had filled a whiteboard with words and phrases like: reproduction, abortion, education, creation, animal rights, the environment, ma...
It’s A Wonderful Life - George Gets Out
Continuing on our theme of “Use what you know and make up the rest.” It’s A Wonderful Life makes a good case for George’s value to the town of Bedford Falls. But what did the world lose by keeping George so close to home? It&#...
You’re Looking Mighty Sheveled Today
Humor comes from anything, and from anywhere, but we have to have “ammo.” I look for the inconsistencies in real life. One thing I’ve noticed is that, many words we use regularly, have lost their antecedents. Here are some examples:...
There’s Gold in Them Thar Ills!
Kahil Gibran the Persian author of The Prophet, wrote, “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.” Mel Brooks had a slightly different take, “Traged...
Tag I’m It
Being new to this “tagging” I actually replied to AmyOops email with a question about what all of this was. Then I checked her blog later and found out what the fuss was about. It seems I have been “tagged” with the 7 things m...
Barack Obama is the “Boy Band” of Politics!
David Letterman’s “Top Ten List” has become an institution. There is even a book collecting the best of them. So how can we use this when using humor? A numbered list gives you a framework to hang your comments upon and is also a wa...
Running of the Bull
It turns out you don’t have to go all the way to Pamplona, Spain in order to Run with the Bulls. There are several comparable festivals around the world, if not so well known. For example: In Brattleboro, Vermont there is the annual Strolling of th...
Stop Hating Smartasses!
I just found this by way of AmyOops Blog. Once while doing comedy fulltime with the Guava Bomblets somone asked me if I was “always a smartass” my reply was that “it was my job.” So this sign strikes a sentimental note for me....
