Category: humor

Quotable: Touchstone from As You Like It

TOUCHSTONE: This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect yourself with them? ROSALIND: Peace, you dull fool. I found them on a tree. TOUCHSTONE: Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.

Gaels

“For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.” –G.K. Chesterton, from The Ballad of the White Horse

Wind beneath my wings

One time Kaleb and I went to work on a printer. While we were there, a young female doctor was in the room. The three of us bantered back and forth for a while until the printer was finally fixed and it began to spit out backed up print jobs. Doctor: “You guys are the …

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“Yay! You have provided magic!”

This is what one of my customers told me this morning when I fixed her problem without actually doing anything.

Nothing to be jealous of…

Madman posted recently that he was ‘surprised’ at the amount of activity to the blog right after I posted my first post after a several year hiatus. Really, there isn’t anything to be jealous of. People like variety in their diet. I know when I eat the same thing daily, like salads, there comes a …

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Valentine’s Leftovers

In my post yesterday I kept trying to find a way to abbreviate ‘Valentine’s Day’ (besides just leaving off the ‘St.’ like everyone else). After all, we abbreviate ‘Christmas’ as ‘Xmas.’ But how would we abbreviate Valentine’s Day? Expressing it as ‘VD’ just doesn’t sound right for a holiday that celebrates love. Still, it wouldn’t …

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Overheard: 35 yr old female

“But it’s so much more fun when we both squeak.”

Not always a technical problem

I was searching online for assistance with a Blackberry issue for work when I stumbled across this topic in a tech support forum:       I really have no idea why he posted this in a phone forum. Maybe he doesn’t actually want any assistance and he’s just venting. The obvious solution is for …

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Quotable: Sam Duncan

“From the day that you’re born to the day you ride in the hearse things are never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.” Sam Duncan was an African American educator in Higginsville, Missouri from the 1950s-1970s where he taught a number of classes and coached several sports. The high school’s football field is named …

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Uh…

I took this pic of a car in Kansas City. I’m not big on vinyl window decals anyway, but this is just…wrong: