Category: Silly Stuff

An elderly relative for whom I am somewhat responsible has a serious prescription drug addiction.  The other day, said relative took a few too many pills, and I was present when the nurse in the residential care facility spoke to the relative.  This dialog ensued: Nurse:  You took too many

Maybe you didn’t get the job because you included one of these statements on your resume. I’m still laughing at the following, which could have come right off of my computer, except for the “good at math” bit: ” Excellent memory; strong math aptitude; excellent memory; effective management skills; and

We’ve been reading a lot about Republican movie habits versus Democrat movie habits.  It turns out, though, that there is an even simpler way to figure out what movies people will like.  Some basic math will magically determine your favorite movie out of a list of 17 movies.  It’s true. 

A friend told me a very funny, and apt, story that I want to pass on to you.  It came about because, while he was talking about one thing, I interrupted him to raise another subject that seemed pressing at the time.  When we’d worked through that second subject, I

In keeping with my happy theme, I highly recommend this post, which celebrates the brilliant snarksters who cleverly upgrade well-meaning signs.  Anything that has me laugh until I cry is okay with me.  (Hat tip:  Ace of Spades) (Speaking of laughter, if you’re over 18, check out Damn You, Auto

Is it possible that I never got around to posting this political ad?  Shame on me.  It is, without doubt, one of the most charming ads I’ve ever seen.  Without know anything about Roger Williams, I do know that he had the smarts to hire an incredibly good ad agency:

I got the following list list of Jewish jokes in an email.  I think most of them originate in one way or another with the old Borscht belt comedians. They’re definitely sexist, but they’re also awfully funny: I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to

Jack Nicholson has apparently been around for a lot longer than I realized, per a story in Britain’s Daily Mail: Clicking on the story itself reveals that Nicholson bought the “pad” (?) in 1973. Snark aside, I’m sorry for his loss.

Do you remember your first serious Internet moments, back in the early 1990s? Someone was explaining these primitive experiences to a few imaginative youngsters, and we got this, the original, unaired 24 pilot:

I couldn’t figure out if this was real or scripted — and by real, I mean that the computer algorithms were really playing through by themselves — but I enjoyed it nevertheless: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY[/youtube]