My name is Penny. I don’t bark much. It’s tiring and hard on my throat. I don’t feel like I need to say much to the other dogs in the neighborhood. Other dogs around here bark all the time. Marley is a big barker. So are Tiger and Sassy. I think they’re just showing off [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Humor’
Death Of The iMac
Posted in Blogging, Humor, Technology, tagged Apple, Blogging, computers, Humor, iMac, Personal Computers, Technology on February 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I got the bad news that I feared — the resolute iMac, faithful blogging friend and desktop companion, has permanently given up the ghost. Earlier this week the iMac screen went opaque. I turned it off, hoping it was just a rebooting issue, but I couldn’t turn it back on. Yesterday I took it [...]
How Do I Brick Thee?
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Big Ten basketball, college basketball, Doggerel, Humor, Illinois, Michigan State, Poems, Poetry, sports on February 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
College basketball is one of my favorite sports. Often, I’ll watch a game even if one of my favorite teams isn’t playing. Last night I watched Illinois play Michigan State. It promised to be a tough game between two teams fighting for the Big Ten lead — but it became an ugly brickfest in which [...]
The Flush Factor
Posted in Humor, Travel, tagged Bathrooms, Hotel Rooms, Hotels, Humor, Toilets, Travel on January 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Travel always presents challenges and requires some accommodations. One little-mentioned point of travel-related adjustment involves the bathroom area. After all, you’re accustomed to your home commode. You’re used to the height, the seating, the back support, and the sound that is made when you flush. So, when you go the road and find one of [...]
The Inoculatory Pre-Golf Personal Information Exchange
Posted in Family, Humor, tagged Family, Humor, Insensitivity, Marriage, Men, Seinfeld, Sensitivity, Women on January 27, 2012 | 7 Comments »
If you are a married man, you’ve probably experienced this scenario. You and your wife are friends with a couple. You innocently mention to your lovely bride that you are going to have lunch, or a beer, or play golf with the male member of the couple. When you return home afterward, your spouse bombards [...]
The Penny Chronicles
Posted in Dogs, Humor, Penny, tagged Dogs, Humor, Penny, Rawhide bones, The Penny Chronicles on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My name is Penny. This week I had the best day ever. The Leader had a big bone. She could have kept it all for herself. That is what I would have done. But the Leader gave the bone to me. That is why I love the Leader! When I get a bone, I start [...]
High Expectations And Electric Football
Posted in Growing Up, Humor, Politics, tagged Electric Football, Growing Up, Humor, Politicians, Politics, toys on January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Life can be difficult if you approach it with high expectations. You vote for a new President expecting him to live up to his promises, for example, and inevitably you are disappointed. That’s not a problem for me, because I grew up with Electric Football. Electric Football was a toy, but its ads portrayed it [...]
The Winter Fat-Burning Workout
Posted in Humor, weather, tagged Exercise, Humor, Shoveling Snow, weather, weight loss, Winter on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We’re all eager to shed some of those lingering holiday pig-out pounds. The best way to achieve your goal is not to go to your health club or workout facility, but to head out into the Great White North, where there are plenty of ways to lose that weight and tone your flabby carcass. The [...]
The Penny Chronicles
Posted in Dogs, Humor, Penny, tagged Dogs, Humor, Penny, Snow, The Penny Chronicles on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My name is Penny. The white stuff is here! The white stuff is here! Today, when the old boring guy took me for a walk, the white stuff was on the ground. I love it when the white stuff is on the ground. I see tracks, and I stick my nose down deep into the [...]
Boring Slogans For The Buckeye State
Posted in Humor, Ohio, tagged Bureaucrats, Humor, License Plate Slogans, License Plates, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s some exciting news: Ohio is redesigning its license plate! It wanted Ohioans to help, so it established a website that allowed Ohioans to vote on which of dozens of different potential “facts,” phrases and slogans “best describes Ohio”! Anyone who thinks there is no poetry lurking in the souls of the bureaucrats in the [...]
Utter Failure And Ignominious End
Posted in Humor, Science, tagged Humor, Mount Rushmore, Phobos-Grunt, Science, Space, space exploration on January 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Poor Phobos-Grunt! Saddled with the worst space mission name ever — one that evokes images of sweaty, cursing, truss-wearing longshoremen, rather than the lofty aspirations of space exploration — it soon will cease to be. Scientists say Phobos-Grunt will hit Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday. The star-crossed probe is expected to explode and break into little [...]
Getting To Choose A Super Bowl Commercial
Posted in Humor, TV, tagged Doritos, Humor, Super Bowl, Super Bowl commercials, TV, TV Commercials on January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If — like the vast majority of viewers — you watch the Super Bowl only to see the commercials, you now have a chance to influence what you really care about. Doritos is sponsoring a contest that allows us to visit this website and vote for which of five commercials should be aired on Super [...]
Twinkie Torment
Posted in Food, Growing Up, Humor, tagged Doggerel, Food, Ghostbusters, Growing Up, Hostess Brands, Humor, Poetry, Twinkies on January 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It makes me sad to learn that Hostess Brands, the maker of the Twinkie, is preparing to file for bankruptcy. I’m sure the Twinkie will survive a bankruptcy. As we all know, Twinkies will last forever and are the foodstuff most likely to survive a nuclear holocaust. Still, it is disturbing that the company that [...]
That Pesky Inner Jonny Quest
Posted in America, TV, tagged Adventure, America, cartoons, Humor, Jonny Quest, Men, Snowmobiling, TV on January 10, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Hey, ladies! Do you ever wonder why . . . well, why men seem so stupid? Why men seem to crave taking dumb risks? Why men go sky-diving, and bungee jumping, and engage in X Games sports when they could be curled up in cozy pajamas, drinking warm cocoa with marshmallows in it and having [...]
The 24 Movie
Posted in Humor, Movies, TV, tagged 24, Deadwood, Humor, Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland, Movies, Star Trek, TV, Twin Peaks on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When a popular TV show ends, it’s not unusual for fans to be promised that a movie will be forthcoming. Sometimes it happens (think Star Trek, for example) but often it doesn’t. Deadwood fans were told movies would happen, but they haven’t. (More’s the pity!) It’s looking more and more like 24 will actually make [...]
