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Archive for 2008/10


Doubletalk for the kids

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The way I figure it, right about now, most of the parents in the U.S. are encouraging their kids to do something that they’ve already told the kids to never ever do.
That’s just one of the problems I see with […]

Who writes this stuff?

You hear the funniest things if you just listen. Here are a couple of examples.

Please, let the mute guy sleep!

Monday afternoon I got myself a flu shot. There was a time I’d have laughed at the suggestion, but then there was a time I hadn’t spent the last 11 years taking immuno-suppressants like prednisone.
I thought for a day or so that I could get by without the side effects that flu shots sometimes […]

You’re kidding, right?

The obnoxious neighbor just pulled one for the record books.
He caught me out front this morning and decided that meant I wanted to be sociable. Actually, it meant that I wanted to put a letter in the mailbox.
While he was standing there chewing my ear, our dog came out of the garage.
Brainiac looked […]

Contest update

I got some more email from those guys with the photo “contest”. The email I got about my flower picture
in case you missed it, here it is.
The latest email from these people about this picture says

Dear Thriell,
Not long ago, our Editors reviewed the thousands of submissions entered in our International Open Amateur […]