Guy: type a Zee Woman: Vee? Guy: Zee! Woman: Vee as in Victor? Guy [frustrated]: No! Zee as in xylophone!
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Author: madman
For 11 years now I have been going to the same flower shop: My Sister’s Garden in Higginsville, Missouri. I first went there simply because of the close proximity to my house and my job, but I ended up staying because the customer service on my first visit was so awesome. I suppose the prices […]
My Mazda Protégé 323, hit 323,000 miles today, 3/23. (the pic of the odometer is 1 mile off– it took me a little time to stop on the side of the highway)
My dad was a welder and a torch-cutter. Years ago he was working night shift a place in the Kansas City area. One of the pranks the guys would play on each other is to make a little bomb out of a plastic bag filled with acetylene and oxygen, put a masking tape fuse on […]
There are some questions that you are prepared for when you walk into a room. Furthermore, there are especially some questions you aren’t prepared for when you walk into a room at church. The asker of the aformentioned question was a boy about eight years old who was cleaning up the room with a couple […]
Unlike so much of American English, the proper pronunciation for those little bits of wax you color with as a child is phonetic: crayons. Not crowns.
Lots of places that sell computer and computer accessories also sell “computer toolkits.” I put that in quotes because they are kind of a joke, consisting of one useful tool and a bunch of useless stuff you will never use. If you work on computers or plan to, here is the list of items in […]
Missouri is known as the Cave State; we have over 6,000 caves. Besides caves, Missouri also has the most famous outlaw of the Old West: Jesse James. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like those two facts have anything to do with one another. However, every cave you visit in Missouri has a sign stating […]
Woman: “We have medium, and there are large behind you. What size do you need?” Rotund Guy: “Texas!”
“It addresses a real need.” So says David Puncil, head of GM’s flagging Hummer line of sport utility vehicles. “Our customers have given us a lot of feedback, and we’ve listened,” he says. “Over and over again our customers told us they want an oversized mammoth of a vehicle that takes up a lot of […]