Author: Dr Wingnut

For high school and college graduates, here is a list of 11 things they did not learn in school.  In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feel-good, politically-correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.  You may…

In answer to the eternal question "Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?"I submit the following:Michael Jordan will make over $300,000 a game:$10,000 a minute, assuming he averages about 30 minutes per game.Assuming $40 million in endorsements next year, he'll be making $178,100 a day (working or not)!Assuming he sleeps 7 hours…

The former kindergartners were trying to become accustomed to first grade.  The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on no baby talk.  You need to use “big people” words she’d always remind them.She asked Wendy what she had done over the weekend.  Went to visit my Nana.  No, you went to visit…

The last 2 years have seen unprecedented growth in bear population in Northern California and the Rocky Mountain areas.  As spring approaches, tourists are warned to wear small bells on their clothing while hiking in bear country.  The bells warn away most bears.  Tourists are also cautioned to watch the ground for bear droppings so…

SYMPTOM:FAULT:ACTION:Beer unusually pale and tasteless.Glass empty.Get someone to buy you another beer.Opposite wall covered with fluorescent lights. You have fallen over backward.Have yourself lashed to bar. Mouth contains cigarette butts.You have fallen forward.See above.Beer tasteless, front of your shirt is wet.Mouth not open, or glass applied to wrong part of face.Retire to restroom, practice in…

We know stuff about tanks.A 5-day trip requires only one suitcase.We can open all our own jars.We can go to the bathroom without a support group.We don't have to learn to spell a new last name.We can leave a motel bed unmade.We can kill our own food.We get extra credit for the slightest act of…

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket ScientistScientists at NASA have a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity.  The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.British engineers…