Category: Silly Stuff

Many years ago, a medical student friend of mine told me a story that he swore was true. As you may or may not know, blank prescription pads are a hot commodity amongst drug users and drug dealers, because they can use them to obtain controlled substances. One enterprising individual

It’s nice to know that my blog is every bit as pure in tone as I had hoped: Created by OnePlusYou I’m perplexed as to what the cussing standards are that I actually scored something above 0%, but but what can you do?  It’s enough to know that you should

This afternoon, my daughter went around the house singing “Can I get a napkin, please?”  Now I know why: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M[/youtube]

I don’t know why, but I found this a tremendously amusing and rather charming story.

It’s amazing how your brain freezes up when you do these things — although, in my defense, there were countries I knew, but the computer wouldn’t accept the way in which I typed them: 68 By the way, that’s 68 out of 270. Hat tip:  The Anchoress

When I was in 9th grade, I had to memorize the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and I can still numb my children’s brains by reciting the first 20 lines or so, complete with awful 9th grade California, Ye Olde English accent.  I’m going to have to clear out that

Both of the following jokes come from an anthology published in 1950, the last year of Truman’s presidency. First: It was a day late in 1980, when socialized medicine had become the law of the land.  A man was seized with a violent cramp in his stomach and sought relief

You’ve probably received this as an email before, but I hadn’t seen it and it startled a great Saturday morning laugh out of me. Here’s the email text: Jennifer and Jim kept getting huge water bills. They knew beyond a doubt that the bills weren’t representative of their actual usage,