Category: humor

Gorgeous

Last summer we built a large set for our church’s Vacation Bible School program. While we were outside spraying our 100 faux stone blocks, my wife brought me a sandwich. “Thanks, gorgeous!” I said Another woman who was helping with the project said: “I wish someone would call me gorgeous.”

Overheard: 35 yr old female

“Could you hit me, like, right around Iowa?”

Overheard: 30 yr old female

“I don’t think you have a huge butt.”

Serial girlfriend

n., A girl or woman who is always in a relationship with someone, and who moves from relationship to relationship. I learned this term from my daughter. When I attempted to look it up to see if a coherent definition already existed, I found quite an oddity in Google’s autosuggestion: What the heck?

Pasta in Black and White

I gotta say that’s a darn good title for a blog post, as well as a good title for: a mystery novel (she walked into my kitchen like a 6-burner Vulcan range) an album an art-house flick that garners a bunch of Oscar noms and wins Best Cinematography Anyhoo, it turns out that Heather and …

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Overheard: 60 year old female

“I’m a big woman; I need a big inbox.”

Da Bears

About three years ago Heather’s dad went hunting and shot a black bear. If you have never tried it, let me tell you that it is amazing. It is glorious. It is quite possibly the best meat I have ever had. Contrary to what most people ask me, no, it is not greasy. It is wonderfully …

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Review: Sophos Antivirus for Windows

A lot of you out there ask me for computer advice. I don’t mind; I like feeling important, and giving advice helps me do that (so does making my own blog). Probably the question I get the most often is, “What kind of computer should I get?” My answer is, always, “You should get an …

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My Christmas List 2009

Once again I have been asked to provide a Christmas List. You would have thought that people learned after reading last year’s, but you would be wrong. To you readers who did not specifically ask for or hint at what to buy me for Christmas, don’t buy me anything: this is strictly for your amusement. You …

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Smileyeth

In 1 Chronicles 5:2 (KJV) I have  found what might be the earliest emoticon; I think the placement is kind of humorous (I have included a bit of 5:1 for context): …and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was …

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