Category: General

Paddy was having coffee and croissants with butter and jam in a cafe when an English tourist, chewing gum, sat down next to him.Paddy politely ignored the Englishman who nevertheless started up a conversation.The Englishman snapped his gum and said, “Do you Irish people eat the whole bread?”Paddy frowned, annoyed with being bothered during his…

Just a few sandwiches short of a blank.

Time magazine reported (17 October 2005) that the union of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise is being called TomKat and that they are expecting a TomKitten.When is the press going to stop referring to couples as some kind of freakish single-celled microorganism.  Don’t they have more creative things to do than think up ways to…

(To the theme from Gilligan’s Island)Come sit right back and you’ll hear a taleA tale of fateful tripThat started from a small lake townAboard two tiny shipsThe mates were a bunch of pole dancersBut the wait staff was too pureThe Vikings team set sail that dayFor a three hour tour, a three hour tourThe action…

Chief Jay Lord, Capt. Daniel LaMontagne, Lt. Laurance Anderson, Lt. Brian Kent and firefighters Dennis Gillick and Steven Jautaikis, all of the Hampton Falls [New Hampshire] Fire Department, received a Class 2 Medal of Valor for their work on Aug. 20, 2004, at the Wakeda Campground.New Hampshire Union Leader

My friend Bruce keeps harping about how evil the Walton empire (Wal*Mart, Sams Club) is and how it’s much better to shop at Costco based on an article he read in one of the Twin-Cities free weekly newspapers.  Now I’m not saying that he’s wrong, but I read a couple of things this week:Meet the…

Harper’s Magazine has a very amusing article in the October issue, “Debbie Does Salad: The Food Network at the frontiers of pornography” by Frederick Kaufman; that compares the way the food channel treats their visuals to those in porn movies — and how similar they are.  Well worth the read.