Humor Articles
421: Is Communication Better Today
In 1955 when researchers counted the punctuation in period texts they found a change in our way of communicating. They discovered there had been a surprising drop in semicolon usage between the 18th and 19th centuries. The drop from 68.1 semicolons per one thousand words to 17.7 was attributed to technology. What was the new technology in the 1850'
422: Is Inventiveness Still In
In 1906 a 21-year-old inventor from Nova Scotia went to work in the basement of his sister's home in New England. That's where Alfred Fuller intended to make "the best products of their kind in the world" and that's how he started the Fuller Brush Company. Since then the company has grown from the contents of one man's sample case to more than 2,00
423: Is It As American As Apple Pie
American inventor La Marcus Adna Thompson was born in 1848 in a small town in Ohio. In spite of designing and building a butter churn at 12 and being a master carpenter at 17, he made his fortune manufacturing women's hosiery. After a mental breakdown in the 1880's, La Marcus sold his hosiery business and went back to his first love - inventing. Wh
424: Is It Coincidence Marriage Contains The Words I Age
A funny thing happened on the way through our marriage. John and I have reached a state of contentedly happy companionship. The excitement of new love has matured.
When we were newlyweds, I didn't make dinner until John got home. A few years later life and children got in the way and I kept his dinner warm. Now if John comes home late, his dinn
425: Is It Hard To Keep In Step With The Wedding March
According to Brides magazine, December is the most popular month for wedding proposals. I attributed this to December being romantic. Wrong. December is practical. It's the month families are most likely to be together, which makes it easier to make plans. Of course, December includes New Year's Eve, which is a popular time for proposals, as well a
426: Is It Time For Creative Financial Planning
As a child my financial planning consisted of a piggy bank and a grandmother who told me a penny saved is a penny earned. Coinstar, the maker of coin-counting machines, estimates 65% of Americans save pennies. This translates into $7.7 billion of pennies. When the economy is good, more pennies are saved. When the economy slows down, pennies come ba
427: Is Play The Four-Letter Word To Say When Stressed
My father's play was golf. To avoid being a golf widow, my mother played too. That left me a golf orphan, but I refused to learn the game. Instead, I watch it on television. For me the slow pace and the announcers' whispering are relaxing. Tiger Woods may have been credited with the spike in golf's popularity, but there are other factors. Golf does
428: It s a Pig ThingMy Very Strange and Ongoing Relationship with Pigs
It's always better to avoid being downwind from pigs. My Maya friend Poot had our permission to put a couple of pigs in back of our village hut. Somehow Poot took couple to mean six. A smelly six at that...especially downwind.
The bad news is the pigs he bought are of the 'Americano' variety and not the Mexican variety. The Americano pigs
429: Language Is Confusing Why Aren t Green Grocers Green
My grandmother would say the English language has gone to hell in a handbasket. I agree; but because I didn't know where that saying came from, I Googled it. I found out that in 1714 the governor of Piscataqua said something about giving his head in a handbasket before passing something. Then, of course, I had to Google Piscataqua to find out it's
430: Laughing Out Loud Online The Key To Finding Hilarity In A Boring World
Let's face it. We all love the Internet and its wealth of quick knowledge and information but it has also caused us all our fair share of misery.
Viruses have destroyed our hard drives, financial and sexual predators lay lurking in the shadows and everything else that could possibly be unpleasant is never more than a click of the mouse away.
431: Lessons in Life We Can Learn from Ugly Women with Big Tattoos
All of us can't be beautiful. God knows.
Take me for instance. I'm nondescript. You see me in a restaurant and it's as if I'm not there. On the one hand that's good because no one is pointing at me and making faces. I can also spill food on my shirt and no one will pay any attention. Or care, except for a stray comment like "Look John, there's a
432: My Breast Sizes are Just Fine for Now Thank You and Besides I m a Man
We have all heard bigger is better. At least that's what the snake oil marketers tell us. These charlatans tell me that whatever my desire in life it can be fulfilled by having a bigger one. Or ones. I've come to the conclusion that part of it is cultural as in the "American Way." We do everything in a bigger way. That's why nobody wants a smaller
433: No Saving Grace
I think the Secretary of the Treasury should issue a warning that having children is hazardous to the health of parents' finances. In self defense we should teach our children about saving money as soon as they've swallowed their first penny or had their first visit from the tooth fairy.
My younger son was a fast learner. He started his own bus
434: Orange You Glad Orange Is Out
Where are all the Pet Rocks and the Beanie Babies and the Smurfs? The Hula Hoop got around and around in the fifties. In the sixties tie dyed t-shirts were to die for. By the end of the seventies bell bottom pants bottomed out and in the eighties big hair was literally big.
A fad is something that interests a lot of people for a short time. In
435: Parents Wanted No Experience Required
Burger flippers get training, so do crossing guards and street sweepers - but not parents. As soon as sperm fertilizes an egg, we become human sculptors. We're given approximately seven pounds of protoplasm to mold and manage, help and heal, teach and train, comfort and care for. I can't help thinking the world would be a better place if we were tr
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