Category: General

  • The Forbes Fictional 15

    Top fifteen richest fictional people according to ForbesSanta ClausOliver “Daddy” WarbucksRichie RichLex LuthorC. Montgomery BurnsScrooge McDuckJed ClampettBruce WayneThurston Howell IIIWilly WonkaArthur BachEbenezer ScroogeLara CroftCruella De VilLucius Malfoy Forbes

  • Anger

    When anger rises, think of the consequences.ConfuciusAnger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.Greg EvansBut when [people] get angry, they bring about a change.Malcolm XI have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me…

  • Costco moves the merchandise

    I like warehouse stores because I can get bulk quantites of stuff and reduce the amount of packaging our household is contributing to the waste stream.  Back when I started shopping at warehouses, when they were call “Wholesale Club,” and that’s exactly what they were, just dimly lit warehouses with signage that said where the…

  • Bore

    Everyone is a bore to someone.  That is unimportant.  The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.Gerald Brenan

  • The Inheritance

    Due to inherit a fortune when his sickly, widower father died, Robert decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with.  So he went to a singles bar and he searched until he spotted a woman whose beauty took his breath away.“Right now, I’m just an ordinary man,” he said to her, “but within a…

  • Non-living things have gender

    You may not know this but many non-living things have a gender.Ziploc Bags are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.Copiers are Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again.A Tire is Male, because it goes bald and it’s often over inflated.A Hot…

  • Annus Horribilis

    A second flood, a simple famine,Plagues of locusts everywhere,Or a cataclysmic earthquake,I’d accept with some despair.But no, You sent us Congress!Good God, Sir, was that fair?John Adams’ prayer, from the movie “1776”With the prospect of a influenza outbreak of pandemic proportions, major earthquakes, tsunami’s and hurricane’s in the last year; you begin to wonder if…