To the person that just subscribed to FT sorry I misplaced your contact info(remembered to cash the check though ). Send me an email with your info. You’re still going to wait till I find the original, just checking the…
To the person that just subscribed to FT sorry I misplaced your contact info(remembered to cash the check though ). Send me an email with your info. You’re still going to wait till I find the original, just checking the…
Penguin’s On Ice Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica – where do they go? Wonder no more!!! It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which…
Rex and I happened to be driving down the street and I noticed the storefront of a pet psychic. I just had to stop. I pulled over, parked, and took my faithful companion in, tucked under my arm. Frugal by…
My hip replacement went well, with no complications, although for some reason I thought liposuction would be included. I mean, the doc is already in there sawing and what-not, so why can’t he grab a surgical ice cream scoop and…
I am trying to practice the Buddhist ideal of loving kindness. I try to catch bugs instead of kill them, talk to the ants who have made their way into my place, and generally be nice to other humans. I…
Ring, Ring. San Francisco apartment. 7:00 a.m. Dave, an unemployed accountant, yawns and picks up his cell phone from the nightstand. “Hello, Dave, this is your Smart Phone calling.” “What?” says Dave. “Who is this?” “No, really, this is…
I am the world’s biggest … albino Pigmy. You didn’t know did you? The Pigmies don’t either. They don’t like the word Pigmy. Today, they go by the name “Baka.” Three times I have applied for membership to the tribe,…
When I was 19 years old, my hair started to recede. I was very self-conscious about it. Most of the hair on top of my head was gone by my fortieth year. By that time I had a comb-over to…
So, like me, you’ve probably read that the Chinese government wants to take over the job of picking the next Dalai Lama from the Tibetan Buddhists. While I have my suspicions about their motives, I’d like to offer a shortlist…
Just when it seems as though nothing new or exciting will happen in 2011 that hasn’t already not happened by now, your network news breaks into Monday Night Football, smack dab in the middle of the fourth quarter, to drop…
Journal entry: July 9, 1980 (age 11) Up until this summer, my 12-year-old brother Dan and I have had pretty good luck with our parents’ choice of babysitters. When we were very young, a grandmotherly woman named Daisy Cochrane…
Fall Classes for Women at the Adult Learning Center CLASS 1 Up in Winter, Down in Summer—How to Adjust a Thermostat Step by Step, with Slide Presentation Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday, for 2 hours beginning at 7:00…
Q&A Two Minnesotans are sitting in a boat. Ole asks Sven, “Why do scuba divers always fall off ‘der boats backwards?” To which Sven replies, “Well, you know, if they fell forwards they’d still be in de boat.” So der…
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…
FOOLISH THOUGHT Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? FOOLISH THOUGHT You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to…
In anticipation of the end of the world, I allowed myself to procrastinate more than usual. After all, no world, no issue. In light of our shortened deadline, we threw together what I believe to be the best issue ever.…
Tony’s Ticklers A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands…