Category: Humor/Fiction

Ah, yes. I remember 1976. People were still booking flights on airplanes, and the stewardesses still felt free to hit on the passengers…

Around that time, a group of pioneering conservationists including William T. Hornaday and Theodore Roosevelt decided to save the buffalo from extinction…

I’ve never been to Europe, and if the truth be known, I had no absolutely intentions of visiting Europe anytime soon — until this atrocity unfolded. But now…

Who knew that it could take so much water to make a double-cheeseburger? One calculation puts it at 450 gallons per quarter-pounder. And that doesn’t count the bun…

“We have to take our clients step by step through the death and grieving process until they can see the possibilities for life after business death….”

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent investigative agency that reports to Congress, discovered the problem and issued some suggestions…

I didn’t even notice, until I got to the self-check-out, that the women draped across the package were all fully clothed, and in fact, professionally attired…

“Stinkwater is also just about the friendliest blight in the country. So many blighted places are full of grim, angry and violent people. We could market Stinkwater as ‘Blight with a Smile’…”

The part of this law I wonder about is the “reasonable excuse” part. How reasonable does an excuse need to be, before the government considers it “reasonable”?

“Historically, we’ve seen our share of racial oppression here in our little community,” explained County Commissioner Jerry Waddles, speaking last week…

As he peddles a dangerous product with his seemingly innocent jingle, Speedy doesn’t reveal to us the main ingredients in Alka-Seltzer: aspirin, sodium bicarbonate, and anhydrous citric acid…

I was too young, in the early 1960s, to have any memory of the original Twilight Zone TV series — but I did enjoy the “revival” of the series that ran on CBS in the mid-1980s…

Because of the COVID pandemic, NASA is encouraging people to watch the liftoff from home, on a sanitized device, rather than gathering on nearby Florida beaches with their binoculars and iPhones…