The Place to Take a Humor Break
Lewis Rosensteil, head of Schenley Distillers, once had 5,000 parrots trained to say “Drink Old Quaker” bourbon, then gave them to bartenders. The Wall Street Journal, review of “Empire: The Past and Future of America’s […]
COLUMBIA, Missouri. Timmy Salmon has enjoyed his big brother Tom’s four years at the University of Missouri, visiting the Sigma Nu fraternity house on football game days and being fawned over by visiting sorority girls. […]
Have a mom who criticizes your cake-decorating skills? Wondering why she always praises your brother’s water-skiing and not yours? Ask Your Maternal Buttinsky Advisor, she’s full of vindictive ideas! Dear Maternal Buttinsky Advisor: I am […]
An image that Google correctly categorized as a tabby cat was, with only a few pixels changed, subsequently identified by the same algorithm as guacamole. The Boston Globe We’re heading into summer, which means that […]
It’s hard out there–to coin a phrase–for a guy who’d like to quit his day job and write. You look for any advantage you can get. A few weeks ago I read about a guy […]
Animals are our friends, but pets can also upchuck on our white wall-to-wall carpeting, or tear up a new pair of pumps we just bought last week on sale. That’s why stuffed animals are often better friends than […]
If you have cats and they’re anything like mine, they’re apolitical. Mine are outdoor cats and get plenty of exercise, so they’re not fat cats. A check of the records at our state Office of […]
Procter & Gamble has mobilized a team of researchers to determine by scientific methods when a woman will have a bad hair day. The Wall Street Journal Don’t laugh–it could happen to you. We […]
BROOKLINE, Mass. It’s been almost a year since Lisa Pepperidge went out to dinner, and the pent-up energy to “put on nice clothes and get out of the kitchen,” as she put it, broke last […]
BEVERLY, Mass. Todd Schrafnel has always had trouble relating to people, a problem his parents chalked up to overexposure to board games as a child. “We’d play Monopoly and Clue and Candyland all weekend long,” […]