The Daring Young Man on the Traffic Light
News stories can be a rich source of laughs. Take this one, for instance: AP Tuesday, June 28, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — A man who climbed atop a traffic light and briefly stopped […]
Tag: Kathy Minicozzi
Why I Hate Checkout Lines
I do everything right when choosing a checkout line. I try to avoid the slow checkers. I look to see how many people are in the line and how many of them have overflowing carts […]
Nobody Loves Humor Writers
To the Literary Set, humor writers are one step above greeting card poets in the literature hierarchy. We are categorized as next-to-lowest of the low, among the dregs of the literary world. I’m not making […]
Okay, Now What?
I was kind of stewing around, trying to think of something to write about. Then I read Donna Cavanagh’s Curing the Blues, right here at https://humoroutcasts.com/2012/curing-the-blues/ . I said to myself, “Depression. Hmmm. Kathryn, if […]
Saturday Morning With Harmony the Cat
Cat: 1. walking ego with an attitude problem; 2. alien that took over Earth millennia ago (from “Definitions You Won’t Find in any Webster’s New World Dictionary,” http://www.opusforfour.com/definitions.html ) Before I go any further, I […]
I Pledge Allegiance to The Cat
I adopted my cat from the New York City ASPCA in March of last year. The ASPCA was careful to give me all the information they could about my cat’s background and to make sure […]
Being Catholic is Good for the Brain
They say that the more you exercise the memory functions of your brain the better it works. This is otherwise known as “Use It or Lose It.” If this is true, it is a good […]
This New Year I Resolve to Make Resolutions
I usually skirt the problem of New Year’s resolutions by avoiding them altogether. That makes things much easier. You can’t feel guilty about not keeping any resolutions that you never made to begin with. This […]
Dearest Santa:
Dearest Santa: It has come to my attention that, because of the nature of some of the activities I have allegedly been involved in this past year, there is a real possibility that I am […]
If Age is Just a Number, Why is Mine Multiplying?
It’s not my imagination. It was only a really short time ago when I was rolling around our backstreet on clamp-style roller skates, riding a second-hand bicycle with pedal brakes without even thinking of putting […]