Being from New Jersey can be downright challenging. The constant barbs and insults are enough to make one think spending three hours a day at the gym, an hour in a tanning bed and another hour sculpting your hair is, perhaps, not the best use of one’s time. Pretty ridiculous, right? Yet it seems as if people everywhere are putting Jersey down, making fun of this cute little profile-shaped state. Let’s face it. Something is amiss when Alabama (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘humour’
simply stated
Posted: September 10, 2012 in Humorous Bits, New JerseyTags: Alabama, California, Crimson Tide, geography, humor, humour, Indiana, Kentucky, Mint Julep, moonshine, New Jersey, NJ, silly rivalries, thin crust pizza, USA
preparing for the future
Posted: June 25, 2012 in Humorous Bits, Observations and CommentaryTags: 2003, dance, education, humor, humour, life, The Hustle, Wheaton College
Thousands of truckers descended upon Wheaton, Illinois this week. They came from places far and near, places like Missoula, Waco, Teaneck and Cicero. They pulled their 18-wheelers into town united in a cause, joined together with a crackling energy not often seen in this country outside of tax evasion season. They arrived to help the students of (more…)
siriusly can’t avoid the punny title
Posted: June 19, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: change, humor, humour, life, music, radio, Sirius, XM
I recently got a free three month subscription to SiriusXM Radio, recently being last week. I am currently heart-deep in the honeymoon stage. You know how it is. Just thinking about your new beloved gets the adrenaline zipping through your veins like Gary Busey through a residential neighborhood. A mere passing thought makes you wonder how you ever possibly managed (more…)
in our defense
Posted: June 13, 2012 in Humorous Bits, Observations and CommentaryTags: Cosmopolitan, humor, humour, life, men, society, war of the sexes, women
Cosmopolitan magazine recently published an online article asserting “tons of studies” have proven women are better than men at some things, specifically 12 things. Whether the 12 studies they referenced actually constitute “tons” is question for another time, one involving basic math skills. I suppose it doesn’t much matter seeing how math skills were not on their list. What is concerning is Cosmo has apparently taken the perspective that equality is no longer the issue, no longer “the cause”. What was once a noble quest has now become a full-fledged campaign to (more…)
the swedish workout
Posted: May 29, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: exercise, humor, humour, IKEA, maze, retail, shopping, Sweden, workout
Forget running the Boston Marathon. Forget power walking the stairs in the Willis Tower. Forget dashing up and down the face of the Grand Canyon. If you want exercise, if you want to get the old ticker ticking, if you want to burn calories like a fitness arsonist, you need go no further than your local (more…)
ginny and alex ride the train
Posted: May 21, 2012 in TravelTags: England, humor, humour, life, smoking, train, true story
Ginny and Alex boarded the 16:25 train from Leeds to Manchester with sodded reassurances that anything was tolerable for 60 minutes. Ginny wore crisply pressed jeans, a torso hugging top boasting a vision from a Peter Max nightmare, and makeup liberally applied in the quest to (more…)
common threads #9: gift giving
Posted: May 15, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: birth, birthday, Common Threads, gift giving, gifts, hospital, humor, humour, life, retirement, wedding
Ahhh, gift giving. The art of showing a person how you feel by negotiating the tricky minefield of buying tangible goods for them. Gift giving, in all of its manifestations, is a capitalist’s wet dream.
Gift giving comes in four flavors. Certainly multiple offshoots exist within each flavor, but when you (more…)
vacation
Posted: May 9, 2012 in TravelTags: across the pond, Blogosphere, humor, humor not so much, humour, lovely Ms. Trask, posting, random, vacation
So tomorrow we head out for a vacation, a spot of holiday as it were. We are jetting across the pond for a spell. Not like a voodoo spell. At least that is what I have been told. You know, I’ve always thought it weird someone somewhere once decided to refer to the Atlantic Ocean as a “pond.” Apparently they had a really skewed understanding of what a pond is. If an ocean is a pond, what does that make a pond? A puddle? And if a pond is a puddle (more…)
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phoning it in
Posted: September 13, 2012 in Humorous Bits, Observations and CommentaryTags: communication, conversation, future, humor, humour, iPhone, life, phones, progress, smart phones, society, technology, telephones
Smart phones. Just the name tells us we’re dealing with something designed to dispel any antiquated notions we may have about telephones and their original purpose. Had we been told 20 years ago that such a lightweight, rectangular chunk of technology could do the things smart phones routinely do many of us would have scoffed, imagining a Jetsons-like future which (more…)