My Father’s Sense of Humor
When my wife tells me, “You’re not as funny as you think,” I freely own up to my failings and admit, “That’s my dad’s fault.” Yes, the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree, so […]
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Any Pet in a Storm
When my stepson’s cat, Pishi (Farsi for “Kitty,” pronounced PEE-shee), came to live with us for a year, she didn’t warm to me right away. Early on, when I tried to pet her, she bit […]
Nobody Knows the Trebles I’ve Seen
f (forte) I’m not one to toot my own horn, but when I started playing trumpet at the age of seventeen without any previous musical background whatsoever, many people told me they expected me to […]
Indoor Skydiving on My Honeymoon
I went indoor skydiving on my honeymoon. I mean that literally, not figuratively. If you’re for unique ideas for your honeymoon, take a look at Jettly to see if you could hire a private jet […]
A Mother’s High-Calorie Love
My mother equated food with love and food that she cooked for her children with mother’s love. The more food, the more calories, the more trouble, the more time involved, the more pans used, the […]
Stepparenting: What Have You Stepped Into?
Once when my wife, my 5-year-old stepson, and I took a late-afternoon walk, we paused to enjoy how long our giant shadows were. That’s when my stepson stepped into the middle of my shadow and […]
The ER Protocol
This story has a happy ending. But the way it starts is that about 20 years ago as I was driving my crying mother home from visiting my youngest brother in a mental hospital the […]
Classroom Comedy: Student Slips & Quips
(Collected from freshman essays) Errors That Are Almost Right, Maybe Even Should Be Right One negative aspect of a credit card is that it is too easy to abuse. It gives one free excess to […]
An Interview with Sisyphus: The Man and the Myth
BS: Sisyphus declined the invitation to come sit in our posh HumorOutcasts studio for this interview, so we met with him on a steep hill in Tartarus while he stayed vigorously engaged in his usual […]
Super Duper Student Bloopers
I collected all of the following sentences and items from students in my college English composition courses over a 30-year teaching career. Most of the humor comes from sound-alike word confusions, typos, or misspellings. Our […]