Dr Wingnut

Category: General

  • Progress

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    The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.Sidney Webb

  • Caffeine

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    Cigarette smoking nearly doubles the rate at which the body metabolizes caffeine.National Geographic, pg. 32, January 2005

  • 2005 Emergency Preparedness Calendar

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    As you may know, we live about 6 miles from the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power plant located on the seashore in lovely Seabrook, New Hampshire.  Well, it is 6 miles if I take the shortcut by the Lawn Ornament Zoo.Many of you may remember the sign on Interstate 95 which George (The Elder) Bush would…

  • The new holiday

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    Last week, we stopped in the Radio Shack near our house to see if they had some doodad or other that was necessary for life.  While the rest of the family went in search of the doodad, I was standing near the Virgin Mobile phone display; and noticed that apparently there is a new holiday…

  • Rules For Jewish Living

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    For those of you who are Jewish, you can relate.  For those of you who would either like to convert, or to understand us better, I have enclosed Aunt Selma’s 27 rules for Jewish Living…Never take a front-row seat at a bris.If you can’t say something nice, say it in Yiddish.The High Holidays have nothing…

  • Work

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    I wasn’t feeling particularly good about work this morning, but I talked to a friend and he said to try the thing that worked for a person that he had had the pleasure of working with in his prior life as a social worker.  Stop what you are doing, get away from the line; pump…

  • Putting Golf Into Perspective

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    The following is not intended to offend fans of tennis, basketball, football or baseball.  It is, rather, an attempt to put everything in its proper perspective.Ever wonder why golf is growing in popularity and why people who don’t even play go to tournaments or watch it on TV?  The following truisms may shed some light:Golf…