Category Archives: Humor

The Three Legged Chicken

The other day I was driving a country road a little north of here in my roadster and as I rounded a corner, checked my rear-view mirror, I saw a chicken running along behind the car. I was doing about 60 … Continue reading

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The Sales Meeting and the Trip to Wrigley Field

Way back in the nineties I was the sales manager for the electron device group at Richardson Electronics. At one of our international sales meetings in Chicago we arranged for all attendees to go to a baseball game at Wrigley … Continue reading

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Trying to do the docent thing!

It was about a month ago that I was at the Columbus Zoo with the the family. It was a warmish day and I decided after seeing several regions of the world and their animals that I’d take a rest … Continue reading

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

I checked with Wikipedia and they list the Law of Unintended Consequences as “an adage or idiom that can be stated as follows: ‘Any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably … Continue reading

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Rotary vs Fixed Wing Aircraft

I seldom discuss the advantages of fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft with anyone but the other day someone did send me a photo which makes it clear that the rotary wing aircraft does have its advantages under certain conditions. … Continue reading

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Ma Na Ma Na – The DEW Line 1969

Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExW48xz5yc4 and listen while you read this posting! The year is 1969 and I’m on the DEW Line at DYE-MAIN Cape Dyer on Baffin Island. It’s somewhat desolate. The DEW Line or Distant Early Warning line was a … Continue reading

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The Easter Bunny and the Three Ethic People

Typically, I don’t like ethnic jokes as they tend to disparage different religions, races, creeds, nationalities etc. and that simply is not PC. I’ve tried in the following to take away ethnicity while maintaining the humor. I hate prejudiced people. … Continue reading

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The Essence of Chutzpah

Another email from a friend… Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, no other word, and no other language, can do it justice.  Sometimes a picture … Continue reading

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Do you wear a toboggan?

It was a while back when Jody our younger daughter attended OU (Ohio University) in Athens Ohio. Athens is a university town in south eastern ohio. Jody was an undergrad with an interest in speech therapy. One of her assignments … Continue reading

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Good Fences make Good Neighbors!

  Good fences make good neighbors, or so they say. We moved into a brand new subdivision in 1974, and that summer I organized a “fencing party” on our side of the street. We had the owners of about 10 … Continue reading

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