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Category: Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Yes, We Have No Bananas

READY, FIRE, AIM: Yes, We Have No Bananas

Posted on July 21, 2022September 22, 2025 by Louis Cannon

To paraphrase a famous book, “A man does not live by pizza and beer alone, but also by overripe bananas…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM:  Telescopes in Outer Space

READY, FIRE, AIM: Telescopes in Outer Space

Posted on July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 by Louis Cannon

When I was a kid, growing up in the 1970s, I fully expected men to be visiting Mars by the time I graduated from college…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM:  Shame is the Name of the Game

READY, FIRE, AIM: Shame is the Name of the Game

Posted on July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 by Louis Cannon

Shame has become big business, nowadays. Really big business…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Things Aren't As Bad As You Think

READY, FIRE, AIM: Things Aren’t As Bad As You Think

Posted on July 12, 2022July 14, 2022 by Louis Cannon

On the Gapminder’s website, you can pick any year you want, and see how the “Life Expectancy” changes with improvements in family income…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: To Burn-out, or Not to Burn-out; That is the Question

Posted on July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 by Louis Cannon

According to WHO, ‘burn-out’ is an ‘occupational phenomenon’.   A ‘factor influencing health status or contact with health services’…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Birds and the Bees

Posted on July 8, 2022July 8, 2022 by Louis Cannon

Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let’s do it, let’s fall in love… — Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in READ MORE

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Soup Goes to War

READY, FIRE, AIM: When Soup Goes to War

Posted on July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 by Louis Cannon

I hear things are not going so well for the Ukrainian army…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Few Words from a Candidate Who Wears Plaid Shirts

READY, FIRE, AIM: A Few Words from a Candidate Who Wears Plaid Shirts

Posted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 by Louis Cannon

He’s been quoted as saying he wants to “save our Democracy from a radical conspiracy nut” and that “Boebert is weak and going to lose…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Monopoly Money

READY, FIRE, AIM: Monopoly Money

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 by Louis Cannon

Back in 2013, a financial analyst named Glen Tickle figured out the exchange rate of U.S. dollars to Monopoly money…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: When Women Rule the World

Posted on June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 by Louis Cannon

We might put the history of female voting into some perspective…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: I'm Going into Stage I Restrictions

READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Going into Stage I Restrictions

Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 by Louis Cannon

So we can’t use water, and we can’t use fire. What’s next on the menu? Can’t breathe the air?

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READY, FIRE, AIM: What Doesn’t Kill Me Only Makes Me Stranger

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 by Louis Cannon

That is not a typo in this article headline…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: When Robots Feel Sad

Posted on June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 by Louis Cannon

“If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM:  Water, Water, and Water

READY, FIRE, AIM: Water, Water, and Water

Posted on June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 by Louis Cannon

Now that I think of it, I have never seen a photo of Ms. Boebert holding a glass of water…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Four Day Work Week Test

Posted on June 15, 2022November 28, 2022 by Louis Cannon

More than 3,000 workers, in about 70 British companies, are participating in an experiment to find out if a four day work week will increase productivity…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

HMPRESENTLY: The Greatest Movement?

Posted on June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 by Harvey Radin

Sean Connery, as James Bond, facetiously told another one of the characters in the film — a certain Dr. Leiter — that recovering the concealed item was “alimentary…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Gonna Kick Climate Change’s Ass

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 by Louis Cannon

There, I’ve thrown down the gauntlet. Whatever a gauntlet is?

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: You Are What You Don’t Eat

Posted on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 by Louis Cannon

“We are all the descendants of people who for hundreds of millennia spent their days doing primarily one thing — assuring their food needs were met…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: I Can’t Help Thinking

Posted on June 1, 2022June 1, 2022 by Louis Cannon

I wake up in the morning, and I realize that I spent most of the night dreaming about the most ridiculous situations…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
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