This spring the budding flowers and vegetable garden greenery of New Albany look much less chewed than in the past. Knowledgeable observers attribute the change to the fearsome bunny-hunting team of Kasey and Penny. Rabbits throughout the neighborhood cower in fear when this formidable pair steps outside on their latest expedition. They know that the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Humor’
The Fearsome Bunny Hunters Of New Albany
Posted in Dogs, Penny, Family, Humor, Kasey, tagged Family, Humor, Penny, New Albany, Dogs, Rabbits, Kasey on June 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Is It Memorial Tournament Weekend?
Posted in Columbus, Humor, weather, Photography, tagged Columbus, Golf, Humor, weather, Rain, Photography, Memorial Tournament, Puddle on June 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Yeppers. Rain all day, cool temperatures, a brisk, rising wind, and a dark sky threatening more showers. The Memorial is here! (Spencer Levin and Scott Stallings are tied for the lead.)
What’s In A Name?
Posted in Family, Humor, TV, tagged Bob, Bobby, British accents, Family, Game of Thrones, Humor, Names, Rob, Robert, TV on May 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Robert is, candidly, a somewhat clumsy name. It doesn’t exactly flow trippingly off the tongue. Starting with the rolling “r,” then flipping to the explosive “b,” then ending with that hard “t” — it’s just filled with too many discordant sounds. “Robert” didn’t even sound good when actors on last season’s Game of Thrones talked [...]
Time For Our Memorial Tournament Rain
Posted in Columbus, sports, Humor, weather, tagged Columbus, sports, Humor, weather, Dublin, Rain, Memorial Tournament, Jack Nicklaus, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Chief Leatherlips, Wyandot on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been hot and dry in Columbus recently — but all that is about to change. Tomorrow the Memorial Tournament begins at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, a Columbus suburb. It’s a terrific tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus on a fabulous golf course. As any Columbus resident also knows, however, it also means [...]
Enslaved By Fear Of Jinxes — Revisited
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Cleveland Indians, Humor, Jinxes, Major League Baseball, sports, sports fans on May 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week, flush with success and heedless of the risk, I wrote an insufficiently veiled post about a certain team’s success and my fear of jinxes. The Fates don’t appreciate such temerity. They become infuriated when puny mortals rise up and stick a thumb in their eye. They know when the time has come for [...]
The Worst Previews In The World
Posted in Humor, Movies, tagged Adam Sandler, France, Happy Gilmore, Humor, Jerry Lewis, Movie Previews, Movies, That's My Boy on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last night Kish and I were watching TV and saw the preview for the next Adam Sandler movie, That’s My Boy. The preview made the movie look like the worst movie in the world — which is about par for the course for Adam Sandler movie previews. They’re uniformly awful, and when the latest Adam [...]
Sunburn Season
Posted in Family, Humor, weather, tagged Family, Humor, Sunburn, Sunscreen, Tanning, weather on May 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been brutally hot in Columbus the past few days, with the mercury reaching the high side of 90. As a result, I’ve gotten my first sunburn of the season. There are people who can “lay down a base” without getting burned and gradually get darker and darker, without telltale peeling, as the summer progresses. [...]
Enslaved By Fear Of Jinxes
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Cleveland Indians, Fan Superstitions, Humor, Jinxes, Major League Baseball, sports, sports fans, superstition on May 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Being an absurdly superstitious sports fan is a terrible thing. You’d love to talk about your team and how well they are playing. You’d relish chatting about their residence atop their division, about how they crushed their divisional rivals, and about their ability to withstand the pressure and win close games. You’d like to do [...]
The Inventor Who Changed Everything — And His Invention
Posted in America, Family, Humor, Technology, TV, tagged America, Eugene Polley, Family, Humor, Inventions, Patents, Remote Controller, Technology, TV on May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Eugene Polley, 96, died on Sunday. Few Americans recognize his name, although virtually every American uses his invention on a daily — in some cases, hourly, or even more distressingly frequent — basis. Polley held 18 U.S. patents, but his crown jewel was the wireless TV remote controller. In 1955 he invented the Flash-Matic, a [...]
The Styrofoam Curse
Posted in Humor, Photography, tagged Dante, Humor, Mail-Order Purchases, Packaging Material, Photography, Satan, Styrofoam on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Kish bought a present for a friend from a mail order catalog retailer, and the present came in a box filled with those Styrofoam curlicues — the worst, most pernicious, packaging material ever devised by Satan. Who else but Beelzebub would come up with packaging materials so lightweight, and so charged with static electricity, that [...]
Why Must Angela Merkel Always Be Kissed?
Posted in Humor, World, tagged Angela Merkel, Gender, Gender Equality, Hugo Chavez, Humor, Men, Women, World on May 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Why is it that, whenever you see a photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting with other world leaders, she’s always being kissed on the cheek or even on the lips? It’s interesting that, even as they talk about gender equality, our world leaders still cling to old-fashioned, sex-specific forms of greetings. Angela [...]
Guzzle Coffee, Live Longer
Posted in Food, Humor, Science, tagged Coffee, Coffee Drinkers, Food, Health, Humor, Longevity, National Cancer Institute, Science on May 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Here’s news that will warm the already rapidly beating hearts of coffee lovers — drinking a lot of that black brew apparently makes you live longer. A large study of more than 400,000 men and women by the National Cancer Institute found a correlation between significant coffee drinking and life span. Men and women who [...]
The Last Concourse On The Left
Posted in Humor, Photography, Travel, Work, tagged airports, Hotels, Humor, Photography, Travel, Work on May 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Here are things that always — always! — happen whenever I am on a business trip and book an early morning return flight: 1. I get no sleep because I’m worried that, despite setting countless alarms and requesting a wake-up call, I’ll oversleep. 2. The only coffee packets for the hotel room brewpot are decaf. [...]
