Not sure this is the best advertisement for skydiving, but it’s funny. Click on the photo to view in full screen and read it better….I passed this place on my Texas tour, just outside of San Marcos.
Wouldn’t you buy flowers from these guys? Got to love a company with a sense of humor. Click on the photo to view in full screen and read it better. I was behind this van for a few miles on I-70 last month, on the way to a gig in St. Louis. Managed to snap [...]
Maybe it means I have the maturity of an unripe kumquat, but I’ve always loved a good practical joke. (Meaning: funny, and nobody gets hurt.) I confess I enjoy it even more when I’m the instigator. One Easter Sunday long ago, my mom played a good one on us kids. She made pancakes for breakfast, [...]
Recently at Christmas I overheard three of my nephews griping about the toilet paper in their college dorms. Their chief complaint was their school’s cheap tissue is too chafing. (This is not a subject you would normally bring up at Christmas or in mixed company, but they are, after all, boys in college. And to [...]
We all know (hopefully) that humor is an antidote to the seriousness of life. Sometimes we forget it can also be a shock absorber for the occasionally rocky road of romance. Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. (Lynda Barry) Perhaps you’ve experienced the hormone cocktail we call “falling in love.” The feeling is [...]
We all have our “I got unceremoniously dumped” stories, and sometimes there’s more than a modicum of pain involved. Occasionally however, especially if it’s been a short-term thing, it not only doesn’t hurt too much, it can be kind of funny. As the writer Linda Barry said, “Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” [...]
Southwest Airlines is always wacky and fun, but last night they ramped it up a few notches. As we sat in the departure lounge waiting for our half-hour delayed flight from KC to Orlando, the gate agent announced on the intercom that we’d be boarding shortly. “Unfortunately,” he said, “we’re going to have to make [...]
You brilliant, creative readers are weirdly wired. Thanks for making this contest such a blast. Your cleverness provoked sustained chuckling and occasional outright guffaws by yours truly. Determining the “winner” was no easy task, as some of you predicted. In the end, I opted for brevity over length (easy to remember), and the broadest potential [...]
“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.” – Bert Leston Taylor. One of the best things you can give anybody is a little humor jolt when they’re not expecting it. This also does wonders for your own personal endorphin levels. One easy way to do this is [...]
If you travel (and maybe even if you don’t), eventually an airline loses your luggage. For reasons you can’t possibly foresee, or even imagine, sometimes it actually works out for the best. I’d been hired to speak and sing for a school group (teachers, counselors, administrators) in Alamosa Colorado. The gig was at 8 AM [...]
