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I was the “Jokemaster” at yesterday’s Toastmasters meeting, and I decided to write original jokes rather than read something from the Internet. I bombed pretty thoroughly. My first joke was this: “the Finance Department announced that our retirement money is fine, but if you had a 401K it is now a 5K. If you want . . . → Read More: First failure Last week, a man spent more than 20 harrowing minutes in a Toyota Prius with a stuck accelerator on a highway, going more than 90 miles per hour. Here in Michigan, that’s referred to as “getting to work,” but I’m not going to split hairs. The mystery as to why that Prius went that fast . . . → Read More: Mystery of the Runaway Prius Solved I volunteered to paint faces at the children’s Christmas party hosted by my company. I enjoyed it, but it was strangely intense because the line of children never ended until the party was over, and, while painting, the parents scrutinize your every move. I also felt a mild competition with the other face painters who . . . → Read More: The Adventures of Face Painting Man Two of the happiest people on earth at the moment have got to be Richard Heene, from “Balloon Boy” fame, and Jon Gosselin, formerly of “Jon and Kate, etc.”, whose unseemly behavior had cast them, figuratively and literally, in unfavorable and unforgiving light. Their publicity aside, Richard seemed to be perpetually in need of a . . . → Read More: Garbage Scow A simple game of bean bag toss takes on a very different tone when you call it “Corn Hole”, depending on where you live. This tournament took place in Ohio, and we knew exactly what was meant. Our friends in Wisconsin, when we offer to play corn hole with them, raise an eyebrow. . . . → Read More: A Corn Hole Tournament I tore into a brand new box of Lucky Charms and ate them out of the box. I’m not going to apologize for this behavior, but neither am I proud of it. Those charms are not just lucky, but they are also magical. I think they could be called “Magical Charms.” I’d still buy them, . . . → Read More: Lucky Charms I will vote today, but I’m not going to tell you for whom I’ll be voting. For the most part, I have no idea who is on the ballot, so I couldn’t tell you much about the vote beyond the big ones, President and Congress. The names for the local election are all a blur, . . . → Read More: Vote For Me Yesterday, while working in the yard, I had an incident that demonstrates my own fault and folly with immaturity, and my relationship with my wife. She had done some pruning in one of her gardens, and loaded the refuse into a laundry basket. The laundry basket, overflowing with dead vegetation, was left at the side . . . → Read More: Dog Urine as a Repellant One of my all time favorite phrases is “A Lick and a Promise“, as in I’m going to give the floor a lick and a promise. This usage refers to quickly wiping up the floor, but having the intention of cleaning that same floor more thoroughly later on. But I am so turned on by . . . → Read More: A Lick and a Promise I just added the first of many articles to my site: Pandemic Joke, which was delivered as a Toastmasters speech a couple of years ago. It was inspired by Monty Python’s “Funniest Joke in the World” skit, which actually demonstrated the weaponization of a joke. The first time I delivered it, it went over the . . . → Read More: Announcing: Pandemic Joke |
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