When I was growing up my family always had plenty of cars. Not new ones. God forbid. I can only recall one new car during my youth, a blue Chevy Impala. Maybe my sister, who actually has a memory, can clarify this. Aside from that glaring exception we were a sort of urban Island of Misfit Cars. My dad knew a lot of people anxious to sell cars, often for $1. It was illegal to (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘humour’
car talk
Posted: May 6, 2012 in TrasklandTags: auto, Black Beauty, car, Edsel, family, growing up, humor, humour, life
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family tree
Posted: April 30, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: ancestors, family, history, humor, humour, life, Trask Avenue
The Trask Avenue family has a long history. We share with you some of those who came before us.
Traskulus? Who knows?
Traskulus Bargainus (285-330)
Traskulus Bargainus was a noted tapestry merchant in Rome during reign of Constantine I. He became widely famous for promoting the use of advertising slogans to popularize subpar and shoddy merchandise. He is alleged to have invented the concept of selling overstocked items at largely discounted prices by invoking the phrase “Everything Must Go!” However, several significant scholars claim the original phrase was actually “Everything must go before the nasty centurion bastards crash through my door and steal my goodies for the greedy Emperor”. Traskulus was commonly known to Roman citizens of the era as “Crazy Trasky”. (more…)
dear trask
Posted: April 17, 2012 in TrasklandTags: advice, Ann Landers, Dear Abby, Dear Trask, help, humor, humour, life
One of the cushiest jobs in the world is Advice Columnist. Seriously, does it get any easier? You encourage people to write to you about their problems. Then you tell them how you think they should address those problems. If that wasn’t fantastic enough, you get a large distribution network to pay you for the privilege of letting them publish your opinions. Let’s be real. That is the dream for (more…)
guest blogger: Lizzie Borden
Posted: April 10, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: axe to grind, guest blogger, history, humor, humour, justice, life, Lizzie Borden
Mercy me, stigma is a difficult and lonesome burden. Even after all these years the good people of the great commonwealth of Massachusetts and across this God-fearing nation still believe I murdered my father and step-mother. They do not know or do not remember I was acquitted of all wrongdoing by 12 respected New Bedford men after only 90 minutes of jury deliberation. Acquitted. I know not why people fail to (more…)
13 virtues
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: 13 virtues, Ben Franklin, humor, humour, life, tribbles
Good old Benjamin Franklin, now there was a man with a plan. At the age of 20 young Ben decided to give his life some moral structure and devised “13 virtues” to help develop and improve his character. Pretty heady stuff for a 20 year old, right? At 20 I was still mixing reds and whites in my college laundry and then wondering why my underwear came out pink. All I’m saying is I could’ve used guidance. (more…)
tis the season when thoughts turn to malfeasance
Posted: March 27, 2012 in Humorous Bits, New JerseyTags: criminal life, dumb laws, frown, homing pigeon, hoosegow, humor, humour, knitting, laws, New Jersey, rotten egg, soup, spring
Spring brings a change in attitude. Some folks feel a lifting of the spirit, a loosening of the depressive chains brought on by winter’s short days and cold weather. Others anxiously anticipate the blossoming of trees and plants, the renewal of nature’s life cycle. Children begin to sense the possibilities of summer and no school. Baseball fans embrace misplaced hope, convinced this will be the season their team finally wins. Everything blooms (more…)
hoo-ha’s and dimwhittles
Posted: March 22, 2012 in PhotographyTags: albums, art, editing, growing pains without Kirk Cameron, humor, humour, Mickey Rourke, Photography, random, software, Van Gogh, Wilderstein
I was leafing through my digital photo files as one with digital photo files tends to do when I happened upon the thing above created sometime during Dubya’s Reign of Mispronunciation. When I first began diddling with photography back in the olden days of aught 5 I quickly became enamored with the various hoo-ha’s and dimwhittles available in your basic photo editing software packages. (Or was it aught 4? Maybe aught 3? I ought to know, but I asking me to remember that far back is like (more…)
our little secret
Posted: March 17, 2012 in New Jersey, PhotographyTags: Barnegat Light, Frenchtown, Hopewell, humor, humour, LBI, life, New Jersey, Newark, parking, Photography, Red Bank, refineries, tourism
outside Hopewell, NJ
I like to refer to New Jersey as “Our Little Secret” because of its surprising diversity and beauty. Of course if you don’t live here you can’t call it that. You’ll have to find something else to (more…)
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