Hope your June is going well! We’ve got another great lineup for you this month, with Will Fargo continuing his investigation into alien activity on the Peninsula; a look at the history of toilet paper; a Rex story revealing our favorite canine?s bedside manner; a rant about handwashing (or the lack thereof); and a column on second-hand shopping from newcomer Megan Havens.

On a separate note, we’re looking for a volunteer to put together a Comedy Calendar for the Foolish Times, alerting our readers to local plays, movies, visiting comedians, anything you think Foolish Times readers would enjoy in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. Interested? Then Contact Us.

I was standing in line at the post office the other day passing time with a full-of-life eighty-something. We were laughing about nothing important when a seventy-some-odd who just left the counter comes up to us with his hand open and says, Look at this, no wonder the post office is broke. His hand had thirty-four cents in it. Read the rest of this article »

I am getting a pet. Trouble is, I can’t decide between a cat and a dog.

Having questioned friends, family, and unsuspecting strangers, I find that people have sectored into opposing camps, Dog Lovers and Cat Lovers, and most are willing to jump off a bridge to prove their allegiance. Read the rest of this article »

June is the first month of summer, and used to be the best month of all, but is now just another month. Because I made the mistake of growing up. Read the rest of this article »

ARIES (3/21 - 4/19)
What do the NBA Playoffs and you have in common? This month, you’ll both take long shots, hoping to score. And how do you differ? You don’t have as many convictions and you don’t Read the rest of this article »

One of life’s most useful but least discussed items is toilet paper. We take the existence of toilet paper for granted and have pretty much forgotten about the days of catalogs, newspapers, shucks, leaves, corncobs, and other alternatives used by our ancestors. Who had the idea of making this product and how did it come to be one of the items we consider as a necessity? Read the rest of this article »

A Washington Post columnist runs a column each summer listing interesting t-shirts observed at the Ocean City, Maryland beach. Here are some examples:

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Saturday morning serials, chapters 1 through 15,
Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green, Read the rest of this article »

To really appreciate this you have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on… Read the rest of this article »

George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. Read the rest of this article »

Shown below is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 86-year-old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times. Read the rest of this article »

I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying: “Hi, how are you?” Read the rest of this article »

A man got pulled over by a cop because he was weaving in and out of the lanes.
The cop got out of his car and asked the driver to blow in a breath-analyzer tube to check his alcohol level. Read the rest of this article »

A few years ago I picked up Rex at the dog pound. He’s a small black Dachshund, and my life hasn’t been the same since. If Rex were the Road-Runner, I would be Wile E. Coyote. If Rex were Stan Laurel, I would be Oliver Hardy. I can never win . . . I can never win.

I have a cold. Not a “go to the hospital” type of cold, just your garden variety “camp out on the couch” type of cold. Lots of water, some fizzing cold pills, a squirt of this in the mouth and a homeopathic that under the tongue. And Dr. Rex. Read the rest of this article »

Five girls sat outside my house, some on porch steps, some on lawn chairs. Two were moms and one was celebrating her 30th birthday. Read the rest of this article »

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of taking three teenage girls shopping. It was a pleasure I would like to repeat. Read the rest of this article »

Dear Will,
Recently you wrote about an underground space alien complex on the moon and about all sorts of space alien activity going on right here in Carmel Valley and on the Monterey Peninsula. Read the rest of this article »