Month: September 2006

  • Helping to feed the poor

    The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast; the chicken was ‘involved,’ the pig was ‘committed.’Unknown

  • Inspectors in Iraq

    Have you noticed anything fishy about the inspection teams who have arrived in Iraq?  They’re all men!  How in the name of the United Nations does anyone expect men to find Saddam’s stash?  For crying out loud!  Men can’t find the dirty clothes hamper.  Men can’t find the jar of jelly until it falls out…

  • Deceit

    One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come crashing down.Baltasar Gracian

  • Bad day for guys

    Yesterday, 28 September, 2006 my mother sent another copy of the post, “The Guy Rules”.  Then Bob Rosen sent the following beer advertisement:

  • Useless

    Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers.Pablo Picasso

  • A woman’s public restroom adventure

    My mother was a fanatic about public toilets.  When I was a little girl, she’d bring me in the stall, teach me to wad up toilet paper and wipe the seat.  Then, she’d carefully lay strips of toilet paper to cover the seat.  Finally, she’d instruct, “Never, never sit on a public toilet seat.”  And…

  • Women Unite!

    Helping the war effort while planning your mid-life crisis-what a plan!Take all American women who are within five years of menopause — train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna — drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan,…