I was ready to write a hilarious bit on how I got by Friday the 13th without a hitch and got a double whammy on Monday the 16th. The only problem is I forgot what did or didn’t happen on Monday. Guess you’ll just have to take my word on how funny it was. Continue reading
What the heck is up with this weather? It’s hot when it’s supposed to be cold; dry when it’s supposed to be wet. The earth is PMS-ing … puzzling meteorological swing!
Talk about puzzling? How about those rat bankers on the cover? Continue reading
By Rosie Sorenson – Just when you think you know a few things for sure, along comes some research to upend your heretofore unexamined assumptions.
I doubt that I’m alone in thinking that rats (the rodent kind, not the Wall Street kind) are pests and potential carriers of disease who should be, if not eradicated, then moved into the woods and away from my house. Continue reading
by Mary Tompsett – I never got into the breeding scene. In retrospect, I view this as having had years of practicing really thoughtful sex. However, I’m a bit peeved that my efforts to avoid mucking up the gene pool have gone unappreciated. Surely, I qualify for a Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading
by Tom Burns – I wrung my hands in desperation. I had missed the deadline for the monthly Rex story. Big Mike, the pillar of FoolishTimes, would be on the phone yelling and screaming, threatening to give me a pay cut. That didn’t scare me, since I don’t get paid anything. Continue reading
The Quotation Quiz of Questionable Quality by Quarlen Qurossman -
1. “Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
A. Moses
B. Mark Twain
C. You Continue reading
By Mike Larson – So this week is the 100th Anniversary year of the Titanic sinking. Last night, I was sitting with a friend of mine at the café I hang out at, talking about how awful it must have been to die in this manner. My friend said, “That was an awful lot of people!” Continue reading
By John Sammon – Carmel is quaint, charming, a forested vision, but also a desire in the mind, a striving for ordered, landscaped perfection, sloping downward on the side of a hill toward a breathtaking visage of the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading
A Woman’s Week at the Gym
Dear Diary – For my birthday this year, my husband purchased a week of personal training at the local health club.
Although I am still in great shape since being a high school football cheerleader 43 years ago, Continue reading
Bottle of Wine
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday morning; it’s a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways. Continue reading
Can you spell eighty in two letters?
A-T. Continue reading
Did you hear the one …?
Did you hear that they found another Heaven Gates cult member?
Yea, it was a blonde and she was under the sink looking for the comet! Continue reading
Humor is a funny thing. Ha! That makes me smile just writing it. We have funny bones and ticklish spots and belly laughs. The humor zone is different for each of us. That’s a good thing because humor is everywhere Continue reading
Well here we are at the unofficial anniversary of Foolish Times! Congratulations! to the winners of the writing contest and to the many people who submitted their work and didn’t win, start working next year’s Continue reading
By Georgia Hubley – When we hosted a Halloween costume party, my husband donned butler attire for the evening. In butler mode he greeted everyone at the door.
Once the lasagna, salad and garlic bread was ready, Continue reading
By Jedediah “Skeeter” Diamond – It was so funny what happened on my honeymoon.
My fifth wife and I were staying at a huge hotel. We had celebrated quite a bit at the wedding and my wife, exhausted, passed out pretty early. Continue reading
By Kolby Gooder, age 9 – My friend Ty invited me to spend the weekend with him and his family to help celebrate his sisters birthday in Capitola, CA. Me, Ty and his father were heading to Capitola and this is where the funny story begins. Continue reading